Achelous
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #440 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Greek mythology.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Haemonius, Adonis, Persephone, Asopus, Alpheus, Arethusa, Amalthea, Oceanus, Dionysus, Zeus, Leuce, Poseidon
- enemy of
- Heracles
- sibling of
- Amaltheia
- manifests as
- river
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Achelous.”
#8892 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In a lost poem by the 5th-century BC poet Pindar, Heracles fought against the river god Achelous (who was in the form of a bull) for the hand of Deianeira, and during the fight Heracles pulled off one of his opponent's horns.”
#8953 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“suggested that behind the vague outlines of this tale lurks an older myth having to do with Herakles' encounter with the river deity Achelous, who had chthonic associations and whose name was the subject of speculative theological etymology among the Greeks”
#36573 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Pirene or Peirene (Ancient Greek: Πειρήνη, lit. 'of the osiers'), a nymph, was either the daughter of the river god Asopus, Laconian king Oebalus, or the river god Achelous, in different sources.”
#42770 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Achelous … the name appears in cult and in mythology as that of the typical river‑god; a familiar legend is that of his contest with Heracles for Deianira.”
#43616 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free