Arethusa

People

• 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.

Ships

• HMS Arethusa, eight ships of the Royal Navy, 1759 to 1991.
• USS Arethusa, three ships of the United States Navy 1864 to 1946.
• Arethusa class cruiser, two classes of Royal Navy cruiser.

Other

• Arethusa, a genus of orchid.
• Arethusa, a genus of extinct trilobites
• Arethusa (journal), an academic journal.
• 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
• Shanty For The Arethusa, a song by The Decemberists
• Sigma Gamma Phi, a local sorority in upstate New York with four chapters in SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Potsdam, and SUNY Oneonta.