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Meaning of "achelous"
achelous (adjective) - describes a river or stream that is muddy or turbid, typically due to sediment or silt carried by the water. It is often used in a geographical context to describe the water quality of a river
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- A river in western Greece
- Deity of water; later, patron deity of the Achelous River.
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Achelous had to trade the goat horn of Amalthea to get it back.
In ancient times its spirit was venerated as the river god Achelous.
Achelous is a relatively fresh crater on Ganymede adjacent to the similarly sized Gula.
Other authors claimed that this miraculous horn belonged to Achelous himself.
After the battle of Achelous the way to Constantinople lay open to Simeon.
Her tears formed the river Achelous.
The Achelous and Hercules mural painting.
He then founded a city in a place which the Achelous had formed with its alluvium.
The Sirens are the daughters of the river goddess Achelous.
Battle of Achelous.
The statue above depicts Hercules fighting against the monster Achelous.
Achelous - god of the river with the same name.
Heracles wrestling with Achelous.
Achelous kept her floating on the waves for a while, imploring Poseidon to help her.
The portunids more abundant in sepetiba bay are callinectes ornatus, callinectes danae and achelous spinimanus.
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Achelous - A River God with the face of a man and the head of a bull.
They were regarded as the daughters of Phorcys, or the storm god Achelous.
Some derived the legends about Achelous from Egypt, and describe him as a second Nilus.
A feud erupted between Hercules and the river-god Achelous.
Shortly before the Battle of Achelous the Byzantines had tried to create a wide anti-Bulgarian coalition.
The Sirens would lure sailors to their doom . The daughters of Achelous.
Achelous relates the bitter episode afterwards to Theseus in Ovid 's Metamorphoses.
A feud erupted between the mighty Hercules and the river-god Achelous.
Achelous ( ancient Greek, Ἀχελῷος ) is a river god in Greek mythology.
Why is the Nile a god if Achelous is?
Achelous and Hercules '.
By Roman times, Homer 's reference was interpreted as making Achelous " prince of rivers.
The Aheloy River ( ) or Achelous ( ) is a river in eastern Bulgaria.
More specifically, the seal depicts Hercules fighting the river-god Achelous.
Aquae Tauri, the Achelous project.
Another son, Romanos, is known only from his participation in the Battle of Achelous in 917.
The Kremasta Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Achelous River in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.
On 19 July 2006 the Hellenic Parliament adopted two amendments on the diversion of the River Achelous.
The two armies clashed on 20 August 917 near the Achelous river in the vicinity of Anchialus.
In addition, they worshiped Hercules, the river Achelous and Bacchus.
