Alphaea, Alpheaea
or ALPHEIU'SA (Ἀλφαῖα, Ἀλφεαία, or Ἀλφειοῦσα, a surname of Artemis, which she derived from the river god Alpheius, who loved her, and under which she was worshipped at Letrini in Elis (Paus. 6.22.5; Strab. viii. p.343), and in Ortygia. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 2.12, Nem. 1.3.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.