#river god

• Achelous — The name of the largest and most important river in ancient Greece, personified in mythology as the supreme god of all fresh waters and the eldest son of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. In legends, he was a powerful river deity capable of changing his shape into a bull or a serpent, famous for his struggle with Hercules over the hand of Deianira, during which the hero broke off his horn, later turned into the Cornucopia.
• Alpheus — The Latin proper name or designation for Alpheus; a mythological character representing the god of the eponymous river in the Peloponnese, famous in legends for his love toward the nymph Arethusa. In geography, it denotes the Alfeios River (the longest in the Peloponnese, Greece), historically featured in the myth of Hercules cleansing the Augean stables; in zoology (taxonomy), it represents a genus of snapping shrimp (Alpheidae family) characterized by a giant asymmetric claw.