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Alpheus

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Canonical name
Alpheus
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None
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Character
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Individual
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Claims

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·Direct

Alpheus is Ortilochus’s father and Diocles’s grandfather.

See evidence text
“Diocles lived, who was son to Ortilochus and grandson to Alpheus”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“who was son to Ortilochus and grandson to Alpheus”
·Direct
“Ortilochus, the son of Alpheus”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 37

Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said, and yoked the fleet horses to the chariot. The housekeeper packed them up a provision of bread, wine, and sweet meats fit for the sons of princes. Then Telemachus got into the chariot, while Pisistratus gathered up the reins and took his seat beside him. He lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth into the open country, leaving the high citadel of Pylos behind them. All that day did they travel, swaying the yoke upon their necks till the sun went down and darkness was over all the land. Then they reached Pherae where Diocles lived, who was son to Ortilochus and grandson to Alpheus. Here they passed the night and Diocles entertained them hospitably. When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing gatehouse. {34} Pisistratus lashed the horses on and they flew forward nothing loth; presently they came to the corn lands of the open country, and in the course of time completed their journey, so well did their steeds take them. {35}