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  Achelous River Greece: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
On the far right Achelous appears in his usual form of...and behind and to the left of Achelous are assumed to include Artemis...fact that Classical images of river gods always bear some attribute...bull horns or ears) in Western Greece alone.
AETOLIA etol y, region of ancient Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth and the Gulf of Calydon, E of the Achelous River (separating it from Acarnania).
AKHELOOS or Achelous akhelo os, river, 137 mi (221 km) long, rising in the Pindus Mts., NW Greece, and flowing generally south, traversing many mountain gorges, and emptying into the Ionian Sea opposite Keffallinia.
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ANCHIROE (2) (Ankhiroe) A Naiad daughter of the Libyan river Chrementes.
ANCHIROE (3) (Ankhiroe) A Naiad daughter of the river Erasinus who with her sisters was an attendant of Britomartis.
ASTYOCHE (Astyokhe) A Naiad daughter of the Trojan river Simoeis.
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 nymph, in Greek mythology
Nymphs were represented as young, beautiful, musical, amorous, and gentle, although some were associated with the wilder aspects of nature and were akin to satyrs; others were vengeful and capable of destruction, as in the story of
Other important nymphs were naiads, nymphs of streams, rivers, and lakes; nereids, daughters of Nereus, who lived in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea; dryads, tree nymphs; and oceanids, 3,000 ocean nymphs who were the daughters of Oceanus.
Arethusa, in Greek mythology - Arethusa, in Greek mythology, nymph favored by Artemis and loved by the river god Alpheus.
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 Apollo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simultaneously, however, Eros had shot a hate arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.
Following a spirited chase by Apollo, Daphne prayed to Mother Earth, or, alternatively, her father - a river god - to help her and he changed her into a Laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
Apollo had an affair with a human princess named Leucothea, daughter of Orchamus and sister of Clytia.
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 MOTHER GODDESS
Guarded by Cerberus, it was either underground or in the far west, and was separated from the land of the living by five rivers.
Helios, in Greek mythology, the sun god; son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia; father of Phaëthon.
Each morning he left a palace in the east and crossed the sky in a golden chariot, then returned along the river Oceanus.
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 - Greek Dieties Chart | greek mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A gaping void which was the first Creation and from which the world of gods and men developed
Charon (Ferryman to conduct the dead across the River Acheron)
Chloris (Goddess of places shaded by trees, shrubs, and vines)
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