Talk:Arethusa (mythology)

Change to Coins section
I made two changes to the "Coins of Arethusa" section. First, I moved a sentence which had nothing to do with coins to the Mythology section. Second, I removed the claim that Arethusa is on the obverse of the coins. While modern observers may well think of the side of a coin with the head as the obverse, most authorities on ancient coins consider the side with Arethusa to be be the reverse of the coin because it was struck with the hand held die.

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Source List moved from article
Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Arethousa, Aerika, Arethusam, Arethiisae, Arethusii or Arethusa:

– Michael Aurel (talk) 13:42, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Homer, Odyssey 13. 404 ff (trans. Palmer) (Greek epic poetry C8th BC)
 * Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 164 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
 * Pindar, Isthmian Ode 3. 69 ff (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th BC)
 * Scholiast on Pindar, The Nemean Odes 1. 1 (The Odes of Pindar trans. Sandys 1915 p. 317)
 * Theocritus, Idyll 1. 117 ff (trans. Banks) (Greek poetry C3rd BC)
 * Theocritus, Idyll 16. 103 ff
 * Theocritus, Idyll 22. 40 ff
 * Scholiast on Theocritus, Idyll 22. 40 (The Idylls Of Theocritus trans. Cholmeley 1919 p. 337)
 * Moschus, Idyll 3. 9 ff (trans. Banks) (Greek poetry C2nd BC)
 * Moschus, Idyll 3. 74 ff
 * Moschus, Idyll 7. 1 ff
 * Scholiast on Moschus, Idyll 7. 1 ff (The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus Banks 1853 p. 200)
 * Horace, Ode 3. 13. 13 (trans. Bennett) (Roman lyric poetry C1st BC)
 * Scholiast on Horace, Ode 3. 13. 13 (Horace Odes and Erodes trans. Bennett 1901 p. 336)
 * Propertius, Elegies 4. 3. 1 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC)
 * Ibycus, Fragment 24 (trans. Edmonds, Lyra Graeca Vol 2 p. 97) (Greek commentary C1st BC)
 * Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 3. 5 ff (trans. Oldfather) (Greek history C1st BC)
 * Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 16. 18. 3 ff
 * Scholiast on Diodorus Siculus, Library of History Fragments of Books 34 and 35. 9 ff (Diodorus of Sicily trans. Oldfather 1967 Vol 12 p. 97)
 * Cicero, Against Verres 5. 53 (trans. Middleton, Melmoth and Heberden) (Roman philosophy C1st BC)
 * Cicero, Against Verres 6. 31 (trans. Middleton, Melmoth & Heberden)
 * Virgil, Eclogue 10. 1 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce) (Roman poetry C1st BC)
 * Virgil, Georgics 4. 322 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce)
 * Virgil, Georgics 4. 343 ff (trans. Fairclough)
 * Virgil, The Aeneid 3. 694 ff
 * Ovid, Fasti 4. 423 ff (trans. Frazer) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
 * Scholiast on Ovid, Fasti 4. 423 (Ovid's Fasti trans. Frazer 1959 1931 p. 220)
 * Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 409 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC To C1st AD)
 * Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 486-646
 * Ovid, The Amores 3. 6. 28 ff (trans. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
 * Scholiast on Ovid, The Amores 3. 6. 28 ff (Ovid Heroides and Amores trans. Showerman 1914 p. 469)
 * Livy, The History of Rome 25. 30. 6 ff (trans. Moore) (Roman history C1st BC to C1st AD)
 * Strabo, Geography 1. 3. 16 (trans. Jones) (Greek geography C1st BC to C1st AD)
 * Strabo, Geography 6. 2. 4
 * Strabo, Geography 10. 1. 13
 * Strabo, Geography 16. 2. 10
 * Strabo, Geography 16. 2. 11
 * Lucan, Pharsalia 3. 177 (trans. Riley) (Roman poetry C1st AD)
 * Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 3. 177 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 98)
 * Lucan, Pharsalia 9. 358 ff
 * Scholiast on Lucan, The Pharsalia of Lucan 9. 362 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 353)
 * Silius, Punica 5. 490 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
 * Silius, Punica 14. 53 ff
 * Silius, Punica 14. 117 ff
 * Silius, Punica 14. 295 ff
 * Silius, Punica 14. 515 ff
 * Statius, Silvae 1. 2. 203 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
 * Scholiast on Statius, Silvae 1. 2. 203 ff (Statius trans. Mozley 1928 Vol 1 p. 31)
 * Pliny, Natural History 2. 106 (103) ff (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman history C1st AD)
 * Scholiast on Pliny, Natural History 2. 106 (103) ff (The Natural History of Pliny trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 131)
 * Pliny, Natural History 3. 14 (8) ff
 * Pliny, Natural History 4. 12 ff
 * Pliny, Natural History 4. 17 ff
 * Scholiast on Pliny, Natural History 4. 17 ff (The Natural History of Pliny trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 299)
 * Pliny, Natural History 5. 19 (23) ff
 * Scholiast on Pliny, Natural History 5. 19 (23) ff (The Natural History of Pliny trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 1 p. 440)
 * Pliny, Natural History 6. 30 ff
 * Scholiast on Pliny, Natural History 6. 30 ff (The Natural History of Pliny trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 2 p. 75)
 * Pliny, Natural History 31. 30 ff
 * Scholiast on Pliny, Natural History 31. 30 ff (The Natural History of Pliny trans. Bostock & Riley 1855 Vol 5 p. 493):
 * Plutarch, Lives Lycurgus 31. 3 ff
 * Plutarch, Lives Antony 37. 1 ff
 * Plutarch, Moralia, That a Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power 776 E ff (trans. Babbitt)
 * Plutarch, Moralia, Whether Land or Sea Animals are Cleverer 976 ff (trans. Cherniss & Helmbold)
 * Plutarch, Moralia, Fragment 81. 181 ff (Sandbach)
 * Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
 * Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 7. 2 ff (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD)
 * Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 23. 2 ff
 * Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 24. 3 ff
 * Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 54. 2 ff
 * Aelian, On Animals 8. 4 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd AD)
 * Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 296 ff (trans. Harmon) (Assyrian satire C2nd AD)
 * Appian, The Syrian Wars 57 (trans. White) (Greek history C2nd AD)
 * Scholiast on Appian, The Syrian Wars 57 (Appian's Roman History trans. White 1913 Vol 4 p. 629)
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 157
 * Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 181
 * Achilles Tatius, 1. 18 ff (trans. Gaselee) (C2nd AD Greek romance)
 * Apuleius, Psyche Canto 5 (trans. Tighe in The Works of Apuleius trans. Hudson 1914) (Latin poetry C2nd AD)
 * Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned 2. 16 (trans. Yonge) (Greek rhetoric C2nd AD to C3rd AD)
 * Athenaeus, Banquet of the Learned 8. 3
 * Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 6 ff (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetoric C3rd AD)
 * Scholiast on Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 6 ff (Philostratus Imagines Callisteatus Descriptions Fairbanks 1931 p. 150)
 * Ammianus Marcellinus, Ammianus Marcellinus 15. 4. 6 ff (trans. Rolfe) (Roman history C4th AD)
 * Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 10. 82 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic poetry C4th AD)
 * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 3. 694 (trans. Thilo & Hagen) (Greek commentary C4th AD to 5th AD)
 * Scholiast on Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 3. 694 (Servii Grammatici In Vergilii trans. Thilo & Hagen 1881 Vol 1 p. 455)
 * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 3. 697
 * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 4. 484
 * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 8. 40
 * Nonnos, Dionysiaca 37. 171 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD):
 * Nonnos, Dionysiaca 40. 560 ff
 * Nonnos, Dionysiaca 45. 117 ff
 * Martianus Capella, Martianus Capella, Liber 6 De Geometria 658. 12 ff (ed. Eyssenhardt) (Roman prose C5th AD)
 * Procopius, History of the Wars 3. 14. 11 ff (Greco-Byzantinian history C6th AD)
 * First Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 166 Arethuisa et Alpheus (ed. Bode) (Greco-Roman mythography C9th AD to C11th AD)
 * Second Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 93 Venus (ed. Bode) (Greco-Roman mythography C11th AD)
 * Second Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 173 Arethusa)
 * Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 9. 491 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantinian history C12 AD)
 * Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 9. 882 ff
 * Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 10. 385 ff

Derek & Clive
The usual "In Popular Culture" section which is such an important and useful feature of so many of your articles is mysteriously absent from this one, presumably because Arethusa doesn't appear in any Japanese cartoons or anything involving Bart Simpson or Batman. However, she is discussed in some detail, though tastelessly and inaccurately, by Derek & Clive on the track "Sex Manual" from the album "Ad Nauseam". I feel that this major omission should be rectified as soon as possible, both for the benefit of serious students of mythology, and because consistency is important, so surely this page should aspire to the same standard of quality that Wikipedia expects elsewhere? 86.132.249.222 (talk) 15:34, 24 November 2023 (UTC)