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Arethusa

[‚ar·ə′thü·zə]
(astronomy)
An asteroid with a diameter of about 126 miles (210 kilometers), mean distance from the sun of 3.069 astronomical units, and C-type surface composition.
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Arethusa

changed into stream by Artemis to save her from river god, Alpheus. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 29]

Arethusa

changed into stream by Artemis to save her from Alpheus. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 29]
See: Water
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(270) CS 18 (Manchester, Birmingham, and Arethusa) was returning from a point northeast of Iceland to Hvalfjord to refuel.
"Notes on the Greek Wedding." Arethusa 15: 181-201.
(1982), "Notes on Greek Wedding," Arethusa 15: 185-186, hereafter abbreviated "NGW."
Images and Ideas of Empire in Chariton's Persia." Arethusa 36: 375-394.
Echoing these concerns, Pharamond promises the King, as he publicly consents to the arranged marriage with the King's daughter Arethusa, that he will act as a chronicle by preserving the King's name to future ages through begetting heirs (1.1.140-46).
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"Woman's Third Face: A Psychosocial Reconsideration of Sophocles' Antigone." Arethusa 30 (1997): 369-98.
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