Alpheus, a river god, was in love with Artemis, but he realizes that he can do nothing to win her heart.

Artemis, who is with her companions at Letrenoi, goes to Alpheus, but, suspicious of his motives, she covers her face with mud so that the river god does not recognize her.

This is reinforced by the connection of the river Alph with the Alpheus, a river that in Greece was connected to the worship of the sun.

As for specific places, the main character is Kublai Khan the Tartar king from China, the river is Alpheus in Greece and is similar to the Nile, and the Abyssinian woman sings of Mount Amara, and the caves are like those in Kashmir.

:" For some say, at Dracanum ; and some, on windy Icarus ; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn ; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover.

Alpheus, also known as Alpheios (, meaning " whitish "), was in Greek mythology a river ( the modern Alfeios River ) and river-god.

Alpheus was also the river which Hercules, in the fifth of his labours, re-routed in order to clean the filth from the Augean Stables in a single day, a task which had been presumed to be impossible.

Buphagus is a tributary of the river Alpheus, Thornax is a mountain between Sparta and Sellasia, and Pholoe is a mountain between Arcadia and Elis.

Here the first house of the village of Waterford was built by Alpheus Williams on the north bank of the river.

Alfeiós (, also romanized as Alpheus, Alpheios ) is the longest river in the Peloponnese, in Greece.

A poem by Roger Caillois, called Le fleuve Alphée ( the Alpheus River ), is mainly about this river.

Stewart & Chickering dissolved after four years, and in 1830 Chickering became associated with John Mackay ( Boston Industrialist ), a merchant, as well as organ and pianomaker who had worked with Alpheus Babcock, doing business as Chickering & Co. at 416 Washington street.

Virgil, in his Aeneid, states that Pisa was already a great center by the times described ; the settlers from the Alpheus coast have been credited with the founding of the city in the ' Etruscan lands '.

Edward Drinker Cope and Alpheus Hyatt reconciled this view with evolutionism in a form of neo-Lamarckism involving recapitulation theory.

Gen. Alpheus S. Williams, with the divisions of Brig.

How she met Pierce, a young lawyer with political ambitions, is unknown, but her brother-in-law Alpheus S. Packard was one of Pierce's instructors at Bowdoin.

Alpheus Cutler taught that with the murder of Joseph Smith, the " Gentiles " ( non-Native Americans living in America and the world ) had rejected Smith's gospel, and thus there was to be no more preaching to them.

This reorganization led to additional schisms, including the break with Alpheus Cutler and what became the Church of Christ ( Cutlerite ) as well as Lyman Wight's group in Zodiac, Texas.

" These four, together with Allen Ross Nieman, Edward Henry McCune, Carl Nelson Chapman, Buell Wright McDaniel, George Eugene Hartrick, A. Barney Cott, Chiles Edward Hoffman, Rodney Edward Herndon, William Edward Billings, Clarence Willard Salter, Frank H. Gorman, Alpheus Oliphant Fisher, and Daniel Frank Fisher, were the 17 founders of the Fraternity.

As one of the last remaining Tograns that set off in hopes they might find a new refuge to rebuild and carry on the words of Alpheus Togra ( a famous research scientist and philosopher ), the player is presented with an opportunity to go back through time and prevent the death of the founder, Togra, using an advanced probe launched by him just prior to the destruction of the planet Strata-7.

The flood continued in the Middle Ages and went up to the German excavations of Olympia in 1875 where it buried Olympia with a height of 4 m. The Greek poet Pindar in the 5th century BC studied the intersection of Cladeus and Alpheus rivers.

Designed by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones, and inspired by the British Museum Reading Room, the building is formed as a chapter house, separated from the main body of the Centre Block by a corridor ; this arrangement, as well as many other details of the design, was reached with the input of the then parliamentary librarian, Alpheus Todd.

To prove the point of overestimating, in Guyana 1937 zoologist Alpheus Hyatt Verrill asked the expedition team he was with to estimate the length of a large, curled up anaconda on a rock.

Williams did, however, communicate well with his family, and the letters he wrote throughout the war were saved and published posthumously in 1959 as the well regarded book, From the Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Alpheus S. Williams.

The two most prominent genera are Alpheus and Synalpheus, with species numbering well over 250 and 100, respectively.

Alpheus randalli with a goby of the genus Amblyeleotris

The largest of these are Alpheus, with 283 species, and Synalpheus, with 146 species.

Chickering patented single piece iron frames combined with wrest plank bridges and damper guides in square pianos, and with massive wrest plank terminations in grands ; Chickering & Mackays were assignees of an action patented by Alpheus Babcock, and licensed actions patented by Edwin Brown and George Howe.

Alpheus Corby, a Conklin resident, built a castle-like structure as his home in 1900.

Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 and Bacchylides's Ode 5 differ also in their description of the race – while Pindar's reference to Pherenicus is slight and general ("... speeding / by Alpheus ' bank, / His lovely limbs ungoaded on the course ...": Olympian I. 20 – 21 ), Bacchylides describes the running of the winner more vividly and in rather more detail – a difference that is characteristic of the two poets:

* Alpheus Sherman ( 1780 – 1866 ), New York politician

* Alpheus Felch ( 1804 – 1896 ), Governor and U. S. Senator from Michigan

Married February 27, 1862 to Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter ( 1837 – 1891 ), seven children.

His mother was Sybil Augusta Judd ( 1843 – 1906 ), daughter of Gerrit P. Judd, and his father was businessman Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter.

* Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse ( 1862 – 1931 ), circus owner

Their husbands-John Coffin Jones ( 1796 – 1861 ) and Alpheus Basil Thompson ( 1795 – 1869 )-entered into a partnership to manage the island.

* June 27 – Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884-1909 ( d. 1916 ).

Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter ( 1837 – 1891 ) became a partner in 1862 until 1874.

* Alpheus S. Williams, July 28, 1864 – August 27, 1864

* Alpheus S. Williams, November 11, 1864 – April 2, 1865

Alpheus Starkey Williams ( September 29, 1810 – December 21, 1878 ) was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U. S. Congressman, and a Union general in the American Civil War.

Alpheus Hyatt ( April 5, 1838 – January 15, 1902 ) was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.

He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. ( 1798 – 1884 ) and the brother of William Alfred Packard.

His son, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, ( 1871 – 1954 ) was an American archaeologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author.