Arethusa
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In classical mythology, Arethusa may refer to:
Persons
- Arethusa (mythology), a nereid nymph who became a fountain.
- Arethusa, a hesperid nymph.
Places
- Arethusa, a titular see of Syria near Apameia.
- Arethuse, a fountain in Ortygia, Sicily, named from the above nereid.
- Arethousa, a municipality in the Thessaloniki Prefecture, Greece.
- Arethusa Falls, a 130' waterfall in Carrol County, New Hampshire, USA.
Arethusa may also refer to:
- Arethusa, a genus of orchid.
- Arethusa, a genus of extinct trilobites
- Arethusa (journal), an academic journal.
- HMS Arethusa, ships of the Royal Navy.
- The Saucy Arethusa, a sea shanty.
- 95 Arethusa, an asteroid.
- Arethusa, an encryption system in the novel Cryptonomicon.
- Arethusa, title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Arethusa, a ship in Dylan Thomas play Under Milk Wood
- Sigma Gamma Phi, a local sorority in upstate New York with three chapters in SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Fredonia, and SUNY Oneonta.