Misplaced Pages

User:Paul August/Achelous: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
< User:Paul August Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 13:42, 31 March 2020 editPaul August (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Administrators205,573 edits →Ancient← Previous edit Revision as of 13:44, 31 March 2020 edit undoPaul August (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Administrators205,573 edits →AncientNext edit →
Line 29: Line 29:
=Sources= =Sources=
==Ancient== ==Ancient==
===]===
:With doth not even king Achelous vie, nor the great might of deep-flowing Ocean, from whom all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells;

===]=== ===]===

Revision as of 13:44, 31 March 2020

Achelous

To Do

  • Gantz
  • Hard
  • OCD
  • Tripp
  • Grimal
  • Brill's New Pauly
  • LIMC

Current text

Origin

According to Homer placed Achelous above all, the origin of all the world's fresh water and perhaps all water.

  1. Homer, Iliad 21,194: " it is not possible to fight Zeus, son of Kronos. Not powerful Akheloios matches his strength against Zeus ".

New text

Origin

Homer placed Achelous above all, the origin of all the world's fresh water and perhaps all water.

  1. Homer, Iliad 21,194: " it is not possible to fight Zeus, son of Kronos. Not powerful Akheloios matches his strength against Zeus ".

References

  • Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Sources

Ancient

Homer

194–196

With doth not even king Achelous vie, nor the great might of deep-flowing Ocean, from whom all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells;

Pausanias

8.38.10

One, falling into the sea by the Echinadian islands, flows through Acarnania and Aetolia, and is said by Homer in the Iliad1 to be the prince of all rivers.

Modern