Editing Alpheus (deity) (section)

== Family ==
[[Image:Picart alpheus arethusa.jpg|thumb|right|280px|An engraving by [[Bernard Picart]] depicting a scene from [[Ovid]]'s ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' in which Alpheus attempts to capture the nymph [[Arethusa (mythology)|Arethusa]].]]
Like most river gods, Alpheus was a son of the Titans [[Oceanus]] and his sister-wife [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+337&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=ALpheus 338] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+337 366–370]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' Preface</ref> [[Telegone (mythology)|Telegone]], daughter of [[Pharis (mythology)|Pharis]], bore his son, the king [[Orsilochus]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Graeciae Descriptio'' 4.30.2</ref> Through him, Alpheus was the grandfather of [[Diocles (mythology)|Diocles]], and great-grandfather of a pair of soldiers, [[Crethon]] and Orsilochus, who were slain by [[Aeneas]] during the [[Trojan War]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 5.45</ref> The river god was also called the father of [[Melanthea|Melantheia]] who became the mother of [[Eirene (daughter of Poseidon)|Eirene]] by [[Poseidon]].<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Quaestiones Graecae'' 19</ref> In later accounts, Alpheus (Alphionis) was the father of [[Phoenissa (mythology)|Phoenissa]], possible mother of [[Endymion (mythology)|Endymion]] by [[Zeus]].<ref>[[Pseudo-Clement]], ''[[Clementine Recognitions|Recognitions]]'' 10.21-23</ref>