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river and river god in Greek mythology

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A tetradrachm of Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, minted c. 485 BC. The obverse depicts Alpheus, referring to the foundation myth of Syracuse.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alpheus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.