Arethusa (Ithaca)

Arethusa was a woman from the island of Ithaca; other than a son, no other family or lineage of hers is preserved.

According to an anonymous scholiast on Homer, Arethusa had a son named Corax (meaning "raven") who was a hunter.

[2] Out of grief for losing her son, the inconsolable Arethusa took her life by hanging next to a fountain near the spot where Corax died.

[4][5] In the Odyssey, after returning home following a long ten-year long journey following the end of the Trojan War and the sacking of the city of Troy, the disguised king Odysseus finds his slave Eumaeus tending the swine which graze next to the rock of Corax and the fountain of Arethusa.

[8] Today, a spring with the same name in Pera Pigadi on Ithaca can be potentially identified with the mythological one, but much of this is speculative.