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    The Fountain of Arethusa (Italian: Fonte Aretusa, Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα) is a natural spring on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the...
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    mythology, Arethusa (/ˌærɪˈθjuːzə/; Greek: Ἀρέθουσα) was a nymph who fled from her home in Arcadia beneath the sea and came up as a fresh water fountain on the...
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  • Look up Arethusa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Arethusa may refer to: Arethusa (mythology), a nereid nymph who became a fountain Arethusa (Greek...
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    Ortygia (category Islands of Sicily)
    traversed underground and appeared here as the Fountain of Arethusa, thus providing water for the city. Arethusa and her pursuer, the river god Alpheus, came...
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  • ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Arethusa after the Greek mythological nymph Arethusa who was transformed by Artemis into a fountain. HMS Arethusa (1759)...
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    mythology, Arethusa (/ˌærɪˈθjuːzə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα, romanized: Aréthousa) is a minor figure from Ithaca who is transformed into a fountain bearing...
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    Syracuse, Sicily (category Municipalities of the Province of Syracuse)
    to a mosque under Arab rule. The Fountain of Arethusa, on Ortygia island. According to a legend, the nymph Arethusa, hunted by Alpheus, was turned into...
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    amounts of staple foods," as described by Alex Metcalfe. Cut off from their water supplies, the people resorted to drinking from the Fountain of Arethusa. A...
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  • French ship Aréthuse, various ships of the French Navy Fountain of Arethusa, sometimes referred to as Arethuse Arethusa (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    Hippocampus (mythology) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
    of Rhodes, Argonautica (iv.1353ff) Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.507. This made credible the mythic undersea passage of the fountain nymph Arethusa...
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    Moeriscus, one of the three prefects of Achradina, decided to save his own life by letting the Romans in near the Fountains of Arethusa. On the agreed...
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    Princess of Wales. The official view is now firmly that she represents Arethusa, although the fountain continues to be known as the "Diana Fountain", and...
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  • depicting a scene from Greek mythology: La fontaine d'Arethuse (The Fountain of Arethusa) Narcisse (Narcissus) Dryades et Pan (Dryads and Pan) "Myths Op....
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    agree that Arethusa was named after the Arethusa of Greek Macedonia while Michael Avi-Yonah claims it was named after the Fountain of Arethusa in Sicily...
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    to a mosque under Arab rule. The Fountain of Arethusa, on Ortygia island. According to a legend, the nymph Arethusa, hunted by Alpheus, was turned into...
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  • intercourse with Arethusa in Boeotian Euripus and was changed into a fountain in Chalcis by Hera. Arethusa, a Euboean princess as daughter of King Abas and...
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  • ten books (1828) The Earl of Brecon Faiths Fraud The Ferryman (1841) The Fawn of Sertorius (1846) The Fountain of Arethusa (1848) Robert Eyres Landor:...
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    ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (SV 325, The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland) is an opera consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three)...
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  • sortable list of compositions by Karol Szymanowski. The works are categorized by genre, Michałowski catalogue number, opus number, date of composition,...
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    John Goldicutt (1793 – 3 October 1842) was a British architect, the son of a bank cashier, who was better known for his architectural drawings than his...
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