Arethusa (mythology)
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Mythology
The myth of her transformation begins in
The Roman writer
The Arethusa myth became popular again in the Renaissance and particularly in Romanticism, retold by artists such as the sculptor Battista Lorenzi, painter Leopold Burthe, and poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Increasingly, the Arethusa myth was reimagined as a pastoral or love story set in Arcadia.[9] Retellings have continued into the modern era. Anne Ridler's "Evenlode" (1959), which she described as "a fable of rivers designed for broadcasting with music," has Alpheus and Arethusa as its main characters.[10]
Coin of Arethusa
As a patron figure of Syracuse, the head of Arethusa surrounded by
In music
Karol Szymanowski, Polish classical music composer, named "The Fountain of Arethusa" first of his three poems entitled "Myths" for violin and piano. The Saucy Arethusa is an 18th-century song about a British naval ship named after Arethusa. A movement of Benjamin Britten's oboe piece Six Metamorphoses After Ovid is entitled "Arethusa." Italian composer Ottorino Respighi composed a tone poem titled "Aretusa".
Also Ralph Vaughan Williams, the English classical music composer, composed "Sea Songs", a quick march for both brass band and wind band written in 1923, used a Morris Dance tune 'The Royal Princess' which was also known by the title 'The Arethusa', alongside two other shanty tunes 'Admiral Benbow' and 'Portsmouth'.
'The Princess Royal' is one of the most celebrated of
Gallery
Arethusa and Alpheus
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Aréthuse by Auguste François Jean Baptiste Legras (Salon 1874)
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Arethusa by Philip Galle (1587)
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Alpheus chasing Arethusa by Antoine Coypel (18th-century)
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Alpheus and Arethusa by René-Antoine Houasse
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The Story of Arethusa by Francesco Primaticcio
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Scultore fiorentino, alfeo e aretusa, 1561–62
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Alpheus and Arethusa byBattista di Domenico Lorenzi(1568–70)
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Alpheus and Arethusa by Abraham Bloteling (between 1655 and 1690)
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Alpheus and Arethusa (Roman School, circa 1640)
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Alpheus and Arethusa by Carlo Maratta (7th-century)
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Alpheus and Arethusa by John Martin (1832)
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Aretusa by Antonio Triva (17th century)
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Arethusa Chased by Alpheus by Wilhelm Janson and Antonio Tempesta (1606)
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Alpheus and Arethusa by Johann König (probably 1610s)
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Alpheus and Arethusa by Luigi Garzi
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La Ninfa Aretusa by Alexandre Crauk
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Alpheus and Arethusa by Paolo de Matteis (1710)
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Alpheus and en:Arethusa by Bernard Picart
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Aréthuse et Alphée by Léopold Burthe (1847)
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Arethusa
Arethusa and Demeter
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Arethusa Tells Ceres of Proserpine's Fate (1685–1775)
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Ceres and Arethusa, engraving by Vincenz Grüner (1791)
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Demetra e Aretusa (1751–1801)
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Ceres and Arethusa, engraving by Ludovico Dolce (1558)
See also
- 95 Arethusa – an asteroid
Citations
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.710
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.7.3
- ISBN 978-0-8018-9799-3.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.487 ff
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 487
- ^ Smith, s.v. Alpheias.
- ISBN 0-8061-2894-1.
- ISBN 0316341517.
- ^ Cord, David (2023). The Spring of Arethusa. p. 75-83.
- ISBN 1-85754-116-2.
- ^ "Coins of Arethusa". Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. (contains verse from Ovid and Shelley)
- ^ "Changes in the Depiction of Arethusa on the Coins of Syracuse". Professional Coin Grading Service.
- ^ Syracuse Arethusa Decadrachm Coins Offered for Sale in Ancient Coin Auction. Paul Fraser Coins 27 February 2012, "In his definitive 1990 book Ancient Greek Coins, the numismatist G. K. Jenkins describes Syracusan decadrachms of this period as 'perhaps the most famous of all ancient coins'."
- ^ [1] Numista Online Coin Catalog of world coins.
General and cited references
- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
External links
- Media related to Arethusa (mythology) at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionary definition of arethusa (mythology) at Wiktionary
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 456.
- Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (images of Arethusa)