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The story of Aretusa
Arethusa is a figure of Greek mythology, daughter of Nereo and Doride.
The god Alfeo, son of the god Oceanus, fell in love with her, spying her while she was
swimming
.
Arethusa
refused
his
attention
,
fleeing
on the island
of
Ortigia
,
in
Syracuse
, where the
goddess
Artemide
turned her into
a fountain.
naked
Zeus, touched by the pain of Alfeo, turned him into a river, thus allowing from the Peloponnese
,
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The story of Aretusa
in Greece
,
to
travel
all over
the
Ionian Sea
to
join
the beloved
source
.
Even today the myth lives on the island of Ortigia, thanks to the so-called Fountain of Arethusa
,
a
mirror
of water
that
flows into the
Great Harbour
of Syracuse
.
In
reality
,
Alfeo was a
small
river
in Greece
that make
a
quick
trip
to the surface
and then
disappear
below ground
.
When
the Greeks
found
the
small
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spring
near
the
source
of
Arethusa
, they found
the
fanciful
explanation
to the disappearance
of the river
Alfeo
in
Greece
, which
would
reappear
on
the surface
in
Sicily
.
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