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The Achelous (Ancient Greek: Ἀχελῷος Akhelôios), also Acheloos, is a mountain torrent of ancient Arcadia, flowing into the Alpheus, from the north of Mount Lycaeus.

References

1. Pausanias (1918). "38.9". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
2. Gustav Hirschfeld: Acheloos 4.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,1, Stuttgart 1893, col. 214.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Achelous". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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