Arethusa (source)
Arethusa ( Greek Ἀρέθουσα ) was the name of numerous sources in antiquity, which today can only be partially localized. The best known of these sources is that of the nymph Arethusa in the port of Syracuse , today Fonte Aretusa .
Further sources:
- a spring on Ithaca , the island of Odysseus , where the pigs of the shepherd Eumaios grazed. The identification with the Perapigadi spring 5 km southeast of Vathy on what is now Ithaca is speculative.
- a source in Chalkis . Probably one of the strong springs in the south of the peninsula.
- a source in Boeotia , near Thebes located
- a spring at Argos (city)
- a spring at Smyrna
- a source localized on Samos , probably confused with Same, the old name of Kefalonia
- a spring in the Squillace area ( in Scyllacino territorio )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer Odyssey 13,408; Plutarch moralia 776 E; Stephanos of Byzantium sv Arethusa
- ↑ Strabo 10,1,13; Athenaios 7,278e
- ↑ Pliny the Elder naturalis historia 4.25; Solinus De mirabilibus mundi 7.22
- ↑ Scholion to Homer's Odyssey 13,408
- ↑ Scholion on Homer's Odyssey 13,408 and Commentary by Eustathios of Thessalonike
- ↑ Scholion to Theokritus Eidyllia 1,117
- ↑ Cassiodor Variae VIII, 32