page_title: Alpheus (deity)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Alpheus (deity) / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Bernard Picart Alpheus and en:Arethusa Engraving
context_page_description: Alpheus or Alpheios, was in Greek mythology a river and river god.
context_section_description: Like most river gods, he is a son of Oceanus and Tethys. Telegone, daughter of Pharis, bore his son, the king Orsilochus. Through him, Alpheus was the grandfather of Diocles, and great-grandfather of a pair of soldiers, Crethon and Orsilochus, who were slain by Aeneas during the Trojan War. The river god was also called the father of Melantheia who became the mother of Eirene by Poseidon. In later accounts, Alpheus (Alphionis) was the father of Phoenissa, possible mother of Endymion by Zeus.
caption: An engraving by Bernard Picart depicting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Alpheus attempts to capture the nymph Arethusa.
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