Alpheus

In the provided sources Alpheus is attested primarily as a river god in Greek mythology: a divine personification associated with a particular river (a potamos) within ancient Greek religious categories. The supplied excerpts do not supply a narrative genealogy, specific mythic episodes, or a fuller myth cycle for this figure; they identify Alpheus as a landscape-associated deity rather than giving detailed origin myths. Separately, the name appears as Alphaeus in New Testament genealogical contexts and is used in modern contexts (fictional characters and a crustacean genus), indicating onomastic continuity and reuse across traditions.

The excerpts supplied do not include any consistent or specific iconographic or physical description of Alpheus as a supernatural being. The principal attestation labels Alpheus as a river god (potamos), which in Greek art and literature is a category that may be represented anthropomorphically, but no such representations or descriptions are provided in the quoted material. Other occurrences of the lexeme in the sources refer to human individuals, fictional characters, or a biological genus and do not contribute a unified appearance for a mythic Alpheus.

The sources characterize Alpheus primarily as the personification and divine embodiment of the river bearing his name. While no list of explicit supernatural feats or habitual behaviors is given in the supplied material, his classification as a potamos implies his identity is bound to the river's flow and presence: he functions as the localized divine force of that watercourse and participates in the wider network of local gods within Greek mythology. The provided texts do not attribute specific miraculous acts, contests, or narrated deeds to Alpheus.