Alphe(i)os (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 07, 2018 05:15 PM
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The longest river of the Peloponnesus.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/570067
37.6125, 21.451667
- Representative Locations:
- Mouth of Alfeios (river) (modern)
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
- Alphe(i)os (river) connection Ionium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Alphe(i)os (river) connection Peloponnesus/Peloponnesos/Peloponnese (unspecified date range)
- Acheloos (river) flows into Alphe(i)os (river) (unspecified date range)
- Kladeos (river) flows into Alphe(i)os (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 A2 Alphe(i)os fl.
According to myth, this river (with the Peneus) was diverted by Heracles to clean the Augean Stables.
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, and R. Talbert, 'Alphe(i)os (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/570067> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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