Arethusa, nymph and daughter of Nereus
Arethusa, nymph and daughter of Nereus who fled from her home in Arcadia under the sea and came up as a fresh water fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor's Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as FavissE utriusque antiquitatis tam RomanE quam GrEcE in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716
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