Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online. Alpheus and Arethusa Dr. Stella Rudolph dates this painting to an early moment in the artist’s career, in the 1650s, and points out that it may be the picture seen by the English artist, collector and writer Jonathan Richardson in the Fraula collection in Brussels in 1722 (op. Arethusa looked so beautiful that all men who set eyes upon her ended up desiring her: it was not long before Alpheus, son of the Ocean god, fell in love with her. Arethusa plunged down and emerged in Ortygia, where the place in which her spring bubbles up is holy ground, sacred to Artemis. He chased her deep into the forest, and she hid where she could behind trees and thickets. Relentlessly pursued, her only option was to seek the aid of Artemis. Arethusa was a singularly beautiful nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris; she was also the favourite of Diana, goddess of hunting and knowledge. View ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA By Luigi Garzi; oil on canvas; 47 1/2 by 67 1/2 in. Eric Arethusa's denial of love Lessons Eric Alpheus Arethusa Artemis Sometimes the best isn't enough The strong get what they want Be careful what you wish for Think before you act Life isn't Alpheus and Arethusa. By Anthonie Waterloo (Lille 1609 – Utrecht 1690) Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18) Metamorphoses Book V: 572-641 Calliope sings: Arethusa’s story “Ceres, kindly now, happy in the return of her daughter, asks what the cause of your flight was, Arethusa, and why you are now a sacred fountain. Before her eyes, Alpheus’s limbs and body hardened, and the River God became a living, breathing man. Theog. Formal rectangular pool in stone courtyard. There, the Moon Goddess gathered up Arethusa’s scattered drops and transformed her into a bubbling fountain. She felt Artemis’s anger rumbling through the earth. Her limbs turned to liquid pools and, on her tongue, she tasted strange, cool water. The river god Alpheus fell in love with Arethusa, who was in the retinue of Artemis. Alpheus desperate, but not repentant, asked for help to none other than Zeus; the great almighty Zeus, sensitive to loving relationships (have you ever heard about how many children the God of Olympus had scattered around the earth ?? It is our English project.I do not own some photos and videos. Her light grew strong, her heat burning into the ground. Not wanting to indulge his mourous overtures Arethusa prayed to … Her lack of modesty surprised her, but she didn’t give it another thought. She did not hesitate, but scrambled naked from the water. One day she is bathing in a river when she feels a rumbling beneath her. (Pind. Now it is a place of historical and touristic interest, thanks to the peculiarities of the source of fresh water on the shore of the sea, the presence of bushy papyrus and funny ducks wallowing and gorging with tourists sandwiches. The myth of Alpheios and Arethusa links Greece and Sicily through the story of Alpheios the river god in Arcadia and his muse Arethusa. : "O revered ground where Alpheios (Alpheus) stayed his pursuit, and Artemis found rest, Ortygia . cit. She remembered the warning of the Moon Goddess: chastity above all. In the name of the gods countless bloody wars were fought: in in their hands lay the fate of civilization, thus monuments and epic texts were dedicated to them. Arethusa, wanting nothing of his advances, fled. According to Pausanias (v. 7. She felt something stirring in the depths beneath her so she hurriedly get out of the water. ), but the laws of the Greek Gods, alas, were completely different). The nymph was also depicted in the banknotes of 500 pounds of the Italian state in 1966. Alpheus chased her down to the sea. Arethusa did not answer but ran on, over moss and stone, grass and stick. Alpheus and Arethusa Dr. Stella Rudolph dates this painting to an early moment in the artist’s career, in the 1650s, and points out that it may be the picture seen by the English artist, collector and writer Jonathan Richardson in the Fraula collection in Brussels in 1722 (op. Alpheus - god of the river Arethusa- fair young huntress Summary cause and effect She was hotly pursued and by one But Arethusa wants nothing to do with him and runs away in fear. He fell in love during their encounter, but she fled after discovering his presence and intentions, as she wished to remain a chaste attendant of Artemis. 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