Here, to this day, one of the myths most impossible of acceptance to the scientific modern mind lives on, and arethusa is not yet forgotten.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang
"In Ortygia," says Cicero, "is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which is arethusa, of incredible flow, very full of fish, which would be entirely overwhelmed by the sea, were its waters not protected from the waves by a rampart and a wall of stone."
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang
Yet here the present is completely overshadowed by the past, and even the story of arethusa knocks loudly at the well-barricaded doors of twentieth-century incredulity.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang
