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List of NYMPHS
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Abarbarea 1.
A naiad. She often reproached Nicaea [see below] for
having killed Hymnus. She consorted with Bucolion 2, son of
King Laomedon 1 of Troy, and had
sons by him, Aesepus 2 and Pedasus 1, who were killed by
Euryalus 1 during the Trojan
War.
Hom.Il.6.21ff.; Nonn.15.378.
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Abarbarea 2.
One of the three Naiads who are at the origin of the
Tyrian race. They were joined to sons of the soil [see
AUTOCHTHONOUS].
Nonn.40.535ff.
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Adrastia 1.
One of the ZEUS' NURSES. She was the daughter of
Melisseus 1, King of Helicon in western Boeotia. Her sister
Ide 3 also nursed Zeus.
Apd.1.1.6; Cal.Ze.46.
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Aglaia 4.
Mother, by Charopus, of Nireus 2, who is counted among
the SUITORS OF HELEN and the
ACHAEAN LEADERS.
Hyg.Fab.97.
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Alcinoe 1.
Nurse of Zeus.
Pau.8.47.3.
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Amalthea.
A naiad, nurse of Zeus, who owned
a horn which could supply food in abundance. She is also
said to have been a goat or to have owned a she-goat who
suckled Zeus.
Apd.2.7.5; Ara.Phae.162; Cal.Ze.48; Dio.5.70.3;
Hyg.Ast.2.13; Hyg.Fab.139; Nonn.27.298; Ov.Fast.5.115.
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Anchiale.
Cretan nymph, mother of the
DACTYLS.
Arg.1.1127.
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Anchiroe 1.
Arcadian nymph.
Pau.8.31.4.
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Anna Perenna.
Nymph of the river Numicius. Sometimes identified with
the moon, sometimes with Themis or Io.
Ov.Fast.3.653ff.
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Anthedon.
Boeotian nymph, from whom the Boeotian city received its
name.
Pau.9.22.5.
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Anthracia.
Arcadian nymph.
Pau.8.31.4.
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Arethusa 3.
Nymph of a spring. She was a huntress with whom the river
god Alpheus fell in love. Arethusa 3, unwilling to marry,
crossed to the island Ortygia, and there turned from a woman
to a spring. But when she changed into a spring the river
Alpheus mingled with it its own waters.
Ov.Met.5.573ff.; Pau.5.7.2; Vir.Aen.3.694.
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Argiope 1.
Mother of Cercyon 1 by Branchus, according to some.
Cercyon 1 was an Arcadian, who compelled passers-by to
wrestle, and in wrestling killed them.
Theseus, who started his career
by killing evil-dooers, lifted him up and dashed him to the
ground, and thereafter he ravished his daughter.
Apd.Ep.1.3.
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Argiope 3.
Mother by Philammon, who was famous for his song and
zither, of Thamyris 1. This Thamyris 1 was a Thracian who
loved Hyacinthus 1. He was
the first man to become enamoured of males. He excelled in
minstrelsy and engaged in a musical contest with the
MUSES. Having lost, they took his
eyes and minstrelsy. He is still being punished in
Hades for his boast against
the MUSES.
Apd.1.3.3; Con.7.
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Argyra.
A naiad who loved Selemnus while he was still young and
handsome; but later in time she would not visit him.
Selemnus died of love and was turned into the river Selemnus
by Aphrodite, who also made him
forget Argyra.
Pau.7.23.1-2.
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Arne (Melanippe 4).
According to some mother of Boeotus, after whom the
Boeotians are called, either by Itonus 1 or by
Poseidon; Aeolus 3 is said to be
her son by this god. Arne was daughter either of
Aeolus 1, or of
Aeolus 2 and Cyane 2, or of
Desmontes. She was blamed by her father for being pregnant
and handed over to Metapontus, whom she married without
having issue by him.
Dio.4.67.3-4; Hyg.Fab.186; Pau.9.1.1, 9.40.5.
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Astacia.
After her Dionysus 2 named a
city.
Nonn.16.405.
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Asterodia 3.
Caucasian nymph. According to some, mother, by King
Aeetes, of Apsyrtus,
Medea's brother.
Arg.3.240.
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Asterope 1 (Hesperia 2).
Daughter of the River God Cebren and lover of Aesacus 1,
son of King Priam 1 of
Troy. She was killed by the bite of
a serpent. Some say that when Asterope 1 died he mourned for
her and was turned into a bird, but others say that he
hurled himself down into the sea and Tethys transformed him
into a diving bird.
Apd.3.12.5; Ov.Met.11.771.
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Atlantia.
Hamadryad. One of the wives of Danaus 1.
Apd.2.1.5.
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Batia 2.
A naiad, wife of the Laconian King Oebalus 1.
Apd.3.10.5; Pau.2.2.3.
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Byblis (Biblis).
Byblis fell in love with her brother and was refused by
him, or else it was her brother who conceived a passion for
her. In any case and on account of this situation with her
brother, she was consumed by her own tears and transformed
into a fountain, or else she was turned into an Hamadryad
nymph by the NYMPHS, or else she killed herself.
Byblis was daughter either of Miletus (son of
Apollo or of Asterius 5), or of
Asterius 5, son of Minos 2. Her
mother was either Cyanee, daughter of the river god Meander,
or Eidothea 3, daughter of King Eurytus 10 of Caria, or
Tragasia.
Hyg.Fab.243; Lib.Met.30; Nonn.13.546ff.; Ov.Met.9.452ff.;
Parth.11.2-4.
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Caliadne.
A naiad, one of the many wives of Aegyptus 1. Her sons by
him were Eurylochus 1, Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermus 1, Dryas
1, Potamon, Cisseus 1, Lixus, Imbrus, Bromius, Polyctor 1,
and Chthonius 1.
Apd.2.1.5.
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Calliphaeia.
One of the Ionides Nymphs in
Elis. They were believed to cure
diseases. (These were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea and
Iasis.)
Pau.6.22.7; Strab.8.3.32.
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Callirrhoe 6.
One of the three Naiads who are at the origin of the
Tyrian race. They were joined to sons of the soil [see
AUTOCHTHONOUS].
Nonn.40.535ff.
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Calybe 1.
Mother of Bucolion 2, the first son of King Laomedon 1 of
Troy, offspring of a secret love.
Apd.3.12.3.
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Calypso 3.
Nymph and goddess.
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Carmentis.
Daughter of the River God Ladon 1. Carmentis was skilled
in the art of divination. She was the first to foretell how
great Aeneas' line would become.
She was mother by Hermes of
Evander 2, the wisest man among the Arcadians. Evander 2
emigrated to Italy and founded a city, Pallantium, on the
banks of the river Tiber.
Pau.8.43.2; Strab.5.3.3; Vir.Aen.8.336ff.
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Carthago.
A Tyrian nymph, daughter of Heracles 6, son of
Zeus and Asteria 1.
Cic.ND.3.42.
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Cassotis.
A nymph of Parnassus from whom a spring at
Delphi received its name.
Pau.10.24.7.
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Ceto 3.
Ceto 3 is identified as a naiad, and as her parents are
Oceanus & Tethys she is
counted as one of the OCEANIDS.
Astris, one of the HELIADES 1, is said to be her daughter by
Helius.
Nonn.26.355.
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Chariclo 1.
Mother of the famous seer
Tiresias.
Apd.3.6.7.
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Chloris 3.
Chloris 3 is Flora, the mother of the flowers. She
consorted with Zephyrus 1, the West Wind [see
WINDS].
Ov.Fast.5.195ff.
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Chryse 2.
A nymph whose tutelary snake punished
Philoctetes for having
profaned the soil of her shrine.
Soph.Phi.1326.
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Chrysopelia.
According to some wife of Arcas 1. Arcas 1 named the land
Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and
succeeded Nyctimus on the throne.
Apd.3.9.1.
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Cleocharia.
A naiad, wife of Lelex 2, first king in Laconia who
arrived from Egypt.
Apd.3.10.3, 3.15.5; Pau.1.39.6, 3.1.1.
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Cleodora 1.
Mother by Poseidon or
Cleopompus of Parnassus after whom Mount Parnassus was
named.
Pau.10.6.1.
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Clonia.
Wife of the very rich man Hyrieus.
Apd.3.10.1; Lib.Met.25.
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Clymene 2.
Wife of Parthenopaeus, one of the
SEVEN AGAINST THEBES.
Hyg.Fab.71.
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Cnossia.
Mistress of Menelaus and
mother by him of Xenodamus.
Apd.3.11.1.
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Coronis 2.
Daughter of Phlegyas 1 (King of the Phlegyans in Boeotia)
or of Azan (after whom the district of Azania was called).
Mother by Apollo of
Asclepius. She had intercourse
with Ischys, whom she preferred before
Apollo, and for this the god
killed her while still pregnant and snatched the babe from
the pyre. Others say that Artemis
punish her for insulting her brother, it being
Hermes who snatched the child from
the pyre.
Apd.3.10.3; Hes.CWE.89; Hom.Apo.3.209; Hyg.Fab.14;
Ov.Fast.1.291; Pau.2.26.6; Pin.Pyth.3.8ff.
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Corycia.
After her the Corycian cave was called. Mother of Lycorus
(after whom the city Lycoreia was named) by
Apollo.
Pau.10.6.3.
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Cranae 2.
A nymph from near an ancient grove of Alernus near the
Tiber. She had many suitors and when requested pretended to
follow them but always deserted them. Was given by Janus the
control of hinges for the maidenhood he took.
Ov.Fast.6.107ff.
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Creusa 3.
A naiad, daughter of Gaia. Mother
by the River God Peneus of Hypseus 1, King of the
LAPITHS and of Stilbe.
Dio.4.69.1; Pin.Pyth.9.16.
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Crocale.
A nymph in the train of
Artemis.
Ov.Met.3.171.
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Cyane 1.
A naiad who opposed Hades when
he ravished Persephone. She
dissolved away in tears.
Ov.Met.5.409ff.
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Cyllene 1.
A naiad, after whom Mount Cyllene is named. According to
some mother of the impious Lycaon
2, but according to others his wife.
Apd.3.8.1; DH.1.13.1.
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Cymodoce 2.
Cymodoce 2 was once a ship and was transformed into a
sea-nymph (so incredible as it sounds).
Vir.Aen.10.220ff.
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Cynosura.
Cynosura , one of ZEUS' NURSES, was made immortal and put
among the CONSTELLATIONS.
Hyg.Ast.2.2; Hyg.Fab.224.
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Cyrene.
Daughter of Hypseus 1 (son of Peneus, one of the
RIVER GODS) and Nymph 7. She
was reared near Mount Pelion in Thessaly and was
extraordinarily beautiful. Apollo
found her without spears wrestling alone with a lion and
carried her off to that part of Libya where in later times
he founded a city and named it, after her, Cyrene.
By Apollo or by Abas 3 (son of
Melampus 1, son of Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of
Aeolus 1) she became mother of
Idmon 2, Coeranus 1, and Lysimache 1. Aristaeus is called
son of Apollo and
Cyrene. By
Ares she had Diomedes 1, the King of
the Bistonians in Thrace, owner of man-eating mares [for
these see Heracles 1].
Apd.1.9.13, 2.5.8; Arg.2.500ff.; Cal.Ap.92; Cal.Ar.208;
Dio.4.81.1-2; Hyg.Fab.14; Nonn.29.185; Pau.1.43.5;
Pin.Pyth.9.25.
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Danais.
Mother by Pelops 1 of
Chrysippus 2. Laius 1
(Oedipus' father) fell in love
with this illegitimate son of Pelops
1 and carried him off. However,
Pelops 1 recovered him through
war.
Plu.PS.33.
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Daphnis 2.
In the earliest times, the prophetess of
Gaia in
Delphi.
Pau.10.5.5.
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Daulis.
Daughter of the River God Cephisus. After her the city
Daulis in Phocis was named.
Pau.10.4.7.
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Deiopea 2.
A fair nymph that Hera promised
in marriage to Aeolus 2 if he
would lash fury into the winds against the ships of
Aeneas. She is found in the train
of Cyrene.
Vir.Aen.1.70; Vir.Geo.4.343.
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Dercetis 2.
Dercetis 2 seduced the boy Lapithaon, still unripe for a
lover's flames. Their son Alatreus was a defender of
Thebes against the
SEVEN.
Stat.Theb.7.298.
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DIONYSUS 2'S NURSES.
The names of these are: Acrete, Aegle 3, Ambrosia,
Bryusa, Callichore, Calyce 3, Ereutho, Eupetale, Harpe 2,
HYADES 1, Ione 2, Lycaste 1,
Macris, Methe 1, NYMPHS DODONIDES, NYMPHS LAMUSIDES, Ocynoe,
Oinanthe, Prothoe 2, Rhode 3, Silene, Stesichore, Trygie.
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Diopatra.
A naiad. With her Poseidon
was in love, said Cerambus, who also said that
Poseidon transformed Diopatra's
sisters into poplars.
Lib.Met.22.
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Drosera.
One of the three Naiads who are at the origin of the
Tyrian race. They were joined to sons of the soil [see
AUTOCHTHONOUS].
Nonn.40.535ff.
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DRYADS.
Nymphs of the Oak.
Long.3.23; Nonn.3.70; Ov.Fast.4.761; Pau.8.4.2.
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Dryope 1.
Daughter of Eurytus 4, prince of Oechalia, or of Dryops
1, son of Sperchius (one of the
RIVER GODS). Originally the
most beautiful of the Oechalian girls, but later turned into
a nymph by the NYMPHS, though some say she was turned into a
Lotus tree. She had a son Amphissus by
Apollo, and she also consorted
with Andraemon 4, son of Oxylus 2, the man who helped the
HERACLIDES.
Lib.Met.32; Ov.Met.9.329ff., 9.350ff.
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Dryope 2.
Mother by Faunus 1, King of Latium, of Tarquitus. Faunus
1 is a half-goat god, sometimes identified with
Pan or with a Satyr. Tarquitus was an
ally of Turnus in the war against
Aeneas in Italy. Both Tarquitus
and Turnus were killed by Aeneas.
Vir.Aen.10.550ff.
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Dryope 4.
This nymph is the snatcher of
Hylas.
Hylas, a minion of
Heracles 1, was ravished away
by Nymphs in Mysia on account of his beauty.
Val.3.545ff.
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Echenais.
Echenais bade her lover Daphnis 4 never have to do with
mortal women; if he disobeyed, his fate would be to lose his
eyes, which in time came to pass.
Parth.29.1-2.
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Echo.
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Egeria.
Nymph and goddess. She took care of Hippolytus 4, son of
Theseus, after he was raised from
the dead, until he changed his name and became Virbius. She
used to visit Numa 3 (the second king of Rome who is said to
have visited Pythagoras) and instruct him in the art of
reigning.
DH.2.60.5; Ov.Fast.3.275; Plu.Num.4.2; Vir.Aen.7.775.
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Eidothea 2.
Mother by Eusiros of Cerambus, who was borne up into the
air on wings by the NYMPHS. Cerambus escaped
The Flood of
Deucalion 1 undrowned. Or
perhaps he insulted the NYMPHS and was changed by them into
a beetle.
Lib.Met.22.
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EPIMELIADS.
Protectors of sheep.
Lib.Met.31; Pau.8.4.2.
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Erato 1.
A Dryad, wife of Arcas 1, according to some.
Pau.8.4.1.
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Ethemea.
Ethemea was struck with the arrows of
Artemis for having ceased
worshipping her and taken alive by
Persephone to the Land of the
Dead. Ethemea consorted with the ruler of Cos Meropes 3, who
was turned into an eagle by Hera,
and they had a child Eumelus 5 who was turned into a raven
by Hermes.
Hyg.Ast.2.16; Lib.Met.15.
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Euryte 1.
Euryte 1 is mother (by
Poseidon) of Halirrhothius, who
was killed by Ares while attempting
to violate Alcippe 1.
Apd. 3.14.2.
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Glauce 5.
Nurse of Zeus.
Pau.8.47.3.
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Hagno.
Arcadian nymph, nurse of Zeus.
Pau.8.31.4, 8.38.3.
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HAMADRYADS.
Tree Nymphs.
Apd.2.1.5; Arg.2.477; Ov.Fast.2.155; Nonn.2.94, 12.231.
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Harmonia 2.
A nymph who was loved by Ares in
the glens of the Acmonian wood. The
AMAZONS are their offspring.
Arg.2.990.
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Hecaerge.
Daughter of the North Wind Boreas [see
WINDS], a naiad in the train of
Artemis.
Cal.Del.292; Nonn.5.491, 48.332.
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Hegetoria.
Mother by Ochimus of Cyrbia. After her, Cyrbe in
Rhodes is called, which was
destroyed by the Flood. Ochimus is
the oldest of the HELIADES 2 and their king.
Dio.5.57.7.
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Helice 1.
Nurse of Zeus. Daughter of Olenus
1 after whom the city Olenus in Aulis was named.
Hyg.Ast.2.2, 2.13.
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Helice 3.
Mother by Oenopion 1, King of Chios, of Merope 3 who was
outraged by Orion.
Parth.20.
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HESPERIDES.
The HESPERIDES guarded the
Golden Apples that Heracles 1
had to fetch. They are said to be the daughters of
Nyx, or of
Atlas & Hesperis, or of Erebus
& Nyx.
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Hieromneme.
A naiad, daughter of the River God Simois. Some say she
is the mother of Ganymedes.
Apd.3.12.2; DH.1.62.2; Hyg.Fab.224.
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Himalia.
Mother by Zeus of Cronius 2,
Spartaeus and Cytus.
Dio.5.55.6.
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Hora 2.
Her body was half-human and half-snake. Mother by
Zeus of Colaxes, a chieftain in the
army of Perses 3 during the civil war in Colchis between
Perses 3 and Aeetes. This Colaxes
was killed by Jason, Captain of the
ARGONAUTS.
Val.6.48ff.
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HYADES 1.
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Hyale 1.
Nymph in the train of Artemis.
Ov.Met.3.171.
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HYDRIADS.
Water nymphs.
Nonn.23.272.
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Iaera 2.
A Dryad nymph, mother by Alcanor 1 of Bitias 1 and
Pandarus 2.
Vir.Aen.9.672.
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Iasis.
One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis. They were believed to
cure diseases. (These were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea
and Iasis.)
Pau.6.22.7; Strab.8.3.32.
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Idaea 1.
Wife of the River God Scamander 1.
Apd.3.12.1-3.
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Ide 3.
Nurse of Zeus. Daughter of
Melisseus 1, king of Helicon.
Apd.1.1.6.
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Ismenis.
Consorted with Faunus 1 and their son Crenaeus 4 was a
defender of Thebes against the
SEVEN. Crenaeus 4 was killed
by Hippomedon 1 at Thebes. [For
Faunus 1 see Dryope 2 above.]
Stat.Theb.9.319.
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Ithome.
Nurse of Zeus, according to the
Messenian account.
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Lara.
A naiad daughter of the River God Almo 2. Lara could not
hold her tongue and reported to Hera
that Zeus loved Juturna. For this
Zeus wrenched from her the
indiscreet tongue, and told Hermes
to take her to Hades as she
was to become an infernal nymph. In this way she became
Tacita, The Silent Goddess (Dea Muta). Lara consorted with
Hermes and gave birth to the
LARES, twin brothers, who guard the crossroads and ever keep
watch in the city.
Ov.Fast.2.599ff.
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Limnaee.
Nymph of the Ganges and mother of Athis, who was killed
in Ethiopia by Perseus 1.
Ov.Met.5.47.
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Liriope.
Mother, by the River God Cephisus, of
Narcissus who fell in love with
himself or with his sister and was transformed into a
flower. But others say that
Narcissus was son of
Endymion &
Selene.
Ov.Met.3.342.
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Lotis.
This nymph transformed into a lotus while fleeing from
the phallic deity Priapus.
Ov.Met.9.347.
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Loxo.
Daughter of the North Wind Boreas. A naiad in the train
of Artemis.
Cal.Del.292; Nonn.5.489, 48.334.
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Lygea.
A nymph in the train of Cyrene.
Vir.Geo.4.336.
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MAENADS.
Crazed women, attendants of
Dionysus 2.
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Marica.
A Laurentian nymph. According to some she was mother (by
Faunus 1) of King Latinus 1 of Latium, who was succeeded by
Aeneas.
Vir.Aen.7.48.
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MELIADS.
Nymphs of the ash-trees. Offspring of
Uranus' Blood &
Gaia.
Cal.Ze.46; Hes.The.187; Long.3.23.
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Melie.
Bithynian nymph. Mother by
Poseidon of Amycus 1, King of
the Bebrycians, who compelled strangers to box as a way of
killing them. He was himself killed by the Argonaut
Polydeuces, who is one of the
DIOSCURI. Melie was as well
mother of Mygdon, who also was King of the Bebrycians and
once fought with Priam 1 against
the AMAZONS. Mygdon was killed by
Heracles 1.
Apd.1.9.20, 2.5.9; Arg.2.1; Val.4.119.
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Melite 2.
A naiad, daughter of the River God Aegaeus. Some say she
was mother of Hyllus 1, son of
Heracles 1. Hyllus 1 killed
Eurystheus and later sought to
effect the return of the
HERACLIDES to the
Peloponnesus.
Arg.4.538.
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Menodice.
Daughter of Orion and mother of
Hylas. [For more about
Hylas see Dryope 4 above.]
Hyg.Fab.14.
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Mideia.
Mother of Aspledon after whom the place Aspledon near
Boeotian Orchomenus was named.
Pau.9.38.9.
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Moria.
A nymph who having seen Tylos dead, asked Damasen for
help in order to kill the serpent which had killed Tylos.
She could restore Tylos to life using a lifegiving herb (the
flower of Zeus) in the same manner
as a second serpent had done to give life back to its male
partner, the first serpent which had killed Tylos.
Nonn.25.481ff.
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Myrtoessa.
Arcadian nymph.
Pau.8.31.4.
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Naiad 1.
According to some mother (by
Endymion) of Aetolus 2, who
called Aetolia after himself and came to the throne after
his brother Epeius 1 was made to flee.
Apd.1.7.7.
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Naiad 2.
Wife of Magnes 1 after whom Magnesia was called. One of
their sons, Polydectes 1, colonized Seriphus and there
became King. Polydectes 1 fell in love with
Danae and sent
Perseus 1 to bring the head of
Medusa 1. Her other son is Dictys
1.
Apd.1.9.6.
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Naiad 3.
Mother of Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus 4 by Thyestes
1, son of Atreus and King of
Mycenae.
Apd.Ep.2.13.
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Naiad 4.
Mother (by Otrynteus) of Iphition 1, leader of a large
contingent of Trojans during the
Trojan War. Iphition 1 was
killed by Achilles.
Hom.Il.20.381ff.
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Naiad 5.
This is the naiad who told
Artemis that
Actaeon had espied her when she
was bathing. As a result Actaeon
was changed into a stag and mangled by his own hounds.
Nonn.5.309.
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Naiad 6.
A naiad who made a certain reflection about the love
between Zeus and
Semele.
Nonn.7.225.
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NAIADS.
Water nymphs.
Nonn.2.54, 5.440, 5.489, 11.323; Ov.Fast.1.405ff.;
Pau.8.4.2.
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Neda.
Nurse of Zeus according to the
Messenian account. From her the river takes his name. She is
the eldest of the NYMPHS.
Cal.Ze.33; Pau.4.33.1, 8.31.4, 8.38.3.
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Nephele 3.
A nymph in the train of
Artemis.
Ov.Met.3.171.
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Nicaea.
Huntress and nymph of Astacia with whom Hymnus fell in
love. She grew angry and killed him as he was declaring his
love for her. Later, having drunk
wine, she fell asleep and
Dionysus 2 took her maidenhood.
She had a daughter Telete by him.
Nonn.15.171ff., 16.265, 16.400, 48.811, 48.880.
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Nomia.
Nomia gave his name to the Nomian Mountains according to
the Arcadians.
Pau.8.38.9.
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Nymph 1 Meliad.
Mother by Silenus of the
Centaur Pholus 1. Silenus, one of
the SATYRS, was the adviser and
instructor of Dionysus 2. [For
Pholus 1 see CENTAURS.]
Apd.2.5.4; Strab.12.4.8.
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Nymph 2 Symaethian.
Mother (by Faunus 1) of Acis, the young man loved by
Galatea 1. Acis was buried by a rock hurled at him by
Polyphemus 2, out of
jealousy, and was turned into a river. [For Galatea 1
including a portrait of her see
NEREIDS].
Ov.Met.13.750.
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Nymphs 3 & 4 Hamadryads.
Their names were Atlantia and Phoebe 3, Hamadryad Nymphs.
They were wives of Danaus 1, father of the
DANAIDS.
Apd.2.1.5.
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Nymph 5.
A naiad, mother (by Enops 1) of the Trojans Satnius and
Thestor 3. Satnius was killed by Ajax
2, and Thestor 3 by Patroclus
1 in the course of the Trojan
War.
Hom.Il.14.444.
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Nymph 6 Tritonian.
Mother (by Amphithemis 1) of Nasamon and Caphaurus. The
latter is said to have killed the Argonaut Canthus 1.
Canthus 1 died wandering in the furthest ends of Libya when
he led off Caphaurus' sheep and the latter killed him with a
stone. But some say that Canthus 1 was killed by Gesander
during the war between Aeetes and
Perses 3. Caphaurus was killed by the
ARGONAUTS.
Arg.4.1490ff.
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Nymph 7.
Wife of Hypseus 1, king of the
LAPITHS, and mother by him of
Themisto 2, Astyaguia, and Cyrene.
Hyg.Fab.1, 4.
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Nymph 8 Sithnid.
Mother by Zeus of Megarus who
escaped the Flood in the time of
Deucalion 1.
Pau.1.40.1.
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Nymph 9 Chian.
Mother of Chios by Poseidon.
Pau.7.4.8.
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Nymph 10.
Mother by Poseidon of Melas 4
and Agelus.
Pau.7.4.8.
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Nymph 11.
Mother of Herophile, the second Sibyl at
Delphi, who said that
Helen would be the ruin of Asia and
Europe. Herophile's father was Theodorus, a shepherd.
Pau.10.12.7.
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Nymph 12 Tarentine.
Mother by Poseidon of Taras,
after whom the river and city in southern Italy are called.
Pau.10.10.8.
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Nymph 13 African.
Mother of Iarbas, a Moor king, son of
Zeus-Ammon, suitor of
Dido but rejected by her.
Vir.Aen.4.198.
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Nymph 14 Sicilian.
Mother of Daphnis 4, son of
Hermes. Daphnis 4 was endowed with
an unusual gift of song, and invented the bucolic or
pastoral poem. His lover (Echenais, see above) bade him
never have to do with mortal women; if he disobeyed, his
fate would be to lose his eyes. This happened when a
Sicilian princess made him drunk and consorted with him.
Something similar happened to Daphnis 1, a shepherd-boy of
Ida, who was turned into a stone by a nymph, out of
jealousy.
Dio.4.84.2.
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Nymph 15 Gygaean.
Mother by Talaemenes of Antiphus 4 and Mesthles, leaders
of the Maeonians against the Achaean invaders during the
Trojan War.
Hom.Il.2.864.
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Nymph 16.
Mother by Satyr of the young man Ampelus, who grew up in
the Phrygian hills and was loved by
Dionysus 2. Ampelus was killed
by a bull, and later turned into the vine.
Ov.Fast.3.409.
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Nymph 17 Indian.
A Hamadryad nymph who warned
Dionysus 2 of an ambush
prepared by the Indian army.
Nonn.22.85ff.
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Nymph 18.
Mother by Agamestor of Clitus 5, a Trojan who was killed
by Podalirius during the Trojan
War.
QS.6.465.
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Nymph 19 Heliconian.
Mother of Aetion, a defender of
Thebes against the
SEVEN. He was killed by
Amphiaraus and
Apollo at
Thebes.
Stat.Theb.7.756.
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Nymph 20.
Mother (by a mortal father) of
Echo.
Long.3.23.
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Nymph 21.
Mother by Dionysus 2 of
Priapus.
Strab.13.1.12.
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NYMPHS CABIROIDES.
These Nymphs are the daughters of the CABIROI who in turn
are the children of Hephaestus
& Cabiro.
Strab.10.3.21.
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NYMPHS CORYCIAN.
Parnassian nymphs. Daughters of Pleistus and attendants
of Apollo or
Dionysus 2 on Mount Parnassus.
When the Flood was over and here
Deucalion 1 came to land, he
first worshipped these mountain deities.
Arg.2.711; Nonn.9.287; Ov.Met.1.320.
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NYMPHS DODONIDES.
These nymphs were nurses of
Dionysus 2. They are said to
have been put to flight by Lycurgus 1 and all except
Ambrosia took refuge with Thetis, one of the
NEREIDS. It is also said that
they brought Dionysus 2 to
Thebes and delivered him to
Athamas 1's wife Ino, and for
this reason Zeus rewarded them by
putting them among the
CONSTELLATIONS.
The NYMPHS DODONIDES were: Ambrosia, Arsinoe 6, Bromie,
Cisseis, Coronis 1, Erato 6, Eriphe, Eudore 1, Nyse, Pedile,
Phyto, Polyhymno, Polyxo 2, and Thyone 2.
Hyg.Ast.2.21; Hyg.Fab.182.
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NYMPHS LAMUSIDES.
Naiads, daughters of Lamus 3. They were in charge of
taking care of the child Dionysus
2, but having been maddened by
Hera would have chopped up the baby
had not Hermes come and stolen
Dionysus 2. NYMPHS LAMUSIDES
are the mothers of the CENTAURS HORNED [See
BESTIARY].
The HYADES 1 were also said to
have been the nurses of Dionysus
2.
Hyg.Fab.192; Nonn.9.28ff., 14.143ff.
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Ocynoe.
One of the nurses of Dionysus
2 who followed him in his Indian campaign.
Nonn.14.219ff.
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Ocyrrhoe 3. Mother, by Hippasus 6, of Charops 1,
Socus 1, Apisaon 2, Agelaus 10, Pammon 2, and Hippomedon 3.
QS.11.36. [see also Hippasus 6].
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Oenoe 1.
A naiad, one of the Nurses of
Zeus. Mother (by Thoas 3) of Sicinus
who renamed the island Oenoe [one of the Cyclades] and
called it Sicinus after himself.
Arg.1.623; Pau.8.47.3.
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Oenone 1.
Daughter of the River God Cebren. Oenone 1 had learned
from Rhea 1 the art of prophecy,
and warned Paris no to sail to
fetch Helen; but failing to
persuade him, she told him to come to her if he were
wounded, for she alone could heal him. When he had carried
off Helen from
Sparta and
Troy was besieged, he was shot by
Philoctetes with the bow of
Heracles 1, and went back to
Oenone 1 on Mount Ida. But she, nursing her grievance,
refused to heal him. Some say that afterwards she repented
for not healing Paris and hanged
herself when she found him dead, but others say that after
having repented for not healing him she leapt onto his
funeral pyre and burned to death.
Paris & Oenone 1 had a child
Corythus 4 who came to Troy to help
the Trojans, and there fell in love with
Helen. But
Paris, having detected him and his
aims concerning Helen, killed him.
However others say that Corythus 4 was the son of
Paris &
Helen.
Apd.3.12.6; Ov.Her.5.3; Parth.4.1-7, 34; QS.10.284,
10.308ff., 10.458ff.; Strab.13.1.33.
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Oenone 3.
Mother of Melantheus 2.
[Nonn.43.62.]
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Opis 3.
Hyperborean nymph, daughter of the North Wind Boreas.
Orion tried to rape her but she
joined the train of Artemis.
Apd.1.4.5; Cal.Del.292; Hdt.4.35; Nonn.48.331.
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OREADS.
Mountain nymphs.
Nonn.6.259, 42.62; Soph.OT.1108; Vir.Aen.1.499.
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Orithyia 3.
According to some she was grandmother of
Adonis.
Lib.Met.34.
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Orphne.
Avernal nymph, mistress of the River God Acheron [a river
in the Underworld].
Ov.Met.5.539.
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Orseis.
Wife of Hellen 1, who named Hellenes those who are called
Greeks.
Apd.1.7.2-3.
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Othris.
Consorted with both Zeus and
Apollo. By
Zeus she gave birth to Meliteus, and
by Apollo to Phagros. She had to
expose Meliteus by fear of Hera but
the child was fed by bees and he later founded the city
Melite in Phthia. Phagros brought up Meliteus, as some say.
Lib.Met.13.
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Paria.
Concubine of King Minos 2 of
Crete.
Apd.3.1.2.
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Pegaea.
One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis. They were believed to
cure diseases. (These were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea
and Iasis.)
Pau.6.22.7; Strab.8.3.32.
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Pegasis.
Mother (by Emathion 5) of Atymnius 3, who was killed by
Odysseus in the course of the
Trojan War.
QS.3.300.
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Penelope.
Even Penelope,
Odysseus' wife, has been called
a nymph, but this should be another
Penelope who consorted with
Hermes.
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Periboea 3.
A naiad, wife of Icarius 1, father of
Penelope,
Odysseus' wife.
Apd.3.10.6; Hom.Od.4.797; Strab.10.2.9.
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Phiale.
A nymph in the train of
Artemis.
Ov.Met.3.171.
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Phigalia.
A Dryad nymph, after whom the town of Phigalia was named.
Pau.8.39.2.
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Phoebe 3.
Hamadryad.
Apd.2.1.5.
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Phrixa.
Nurse of Zeus.
Pau.8.47.3.
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Pirene 2.
Daughter of Oebalus 1, King of Laconia, or of the River
God Achelous. A woman who became a spring because of her
tears shed in lamentation for her son Cenchrias' death.
Cenchrias was killed unintentionally by
Artemis. Her other child, Leches,
gave his name to the Corinthian harbour of Lechaeum.
Apd.3.10.4; Pau.2.2.3, 2.3.2.
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Pitys.
A maiden who hated marriage and fled to escape
Pan until she disappeared into the
soil.
Nonn.2.118, 42.259.
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Polyxo 1.
A naiad. One of the many wives of Danaus 1, father of the
50 DANAIDS.
Apd.2.1.5.
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Pomona.
Pomona flourished under the reign of Proca and was a
Latian wood-nymph who was skilled in garden-culture and the
care of fruit-trees. She was seduced by
Vertumnus, who had assumed the
shape of an old woman.
Ov.Met.14.623, 14.770.
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Praxithea 2.
A naiad, wife of Erichthonius 2. Erichthonius 2, whose
body's lower part was snake-formed, became king of
Athens after having expelled
Amphictyon. Athena brought him up
unknown to the other gods [see also
Envy].
Apd.3.14.6-8.
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Pronoe 4.
Mother of the Trojan Lassus, who was killed by
Asclepius' son Podalirius
during the Trojan War.
QS.6.469.
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Pronoe 5.
Pronoe 5 (a naiad of a river in Lycia) told Caunus what
had happened to his sister Byblis (that se had killed
herself), and persuaded him to stay with her on condition
that he receive the rulership of the country that
appertained to her (Lycia or Caria). Caunus and Pronoe had a
son Aegialus, who inherited the kingdom at his father's
death.
Con.2
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Psecas.
A nymph in the train of
Artemis.
Ov.Met.3.171.
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Rhanis.
A nymph in the train of
Artemis.
Ov.Met.3.171.
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Rhene 1.
Concubine of Oileus 1 and mother of
Ajax 2. She was also mother of
Medon 1, another bastard son of Oileus 1. Medon 1 replaced
Philoctetes as chief against
Troy and thus became commander of
the Phthians.
Hom.Il.2.726; Hyg.Fab.97.
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Rhene 2.
Nymph of Cyllene, mother of Saon 2, also called Samon.
Saon 2 was a Samothracian, the first settler of the island,
which was called after him and the name of Thrace.
DH.1.61.4; Dio.5.48.1.
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Sagaritis.
This naiad nymph was loved by
Attis although he had promised
Cybele to remain chaste. Because of his broken promise the
goddess, by wounding the naiad's tree, also destroyed her,
since her fate was dependent on the tree's.
Ov.Fast.4.229.
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Salmacis.
The naiad who fell in love with
Hermaphroditus. Their
bodies were united in one.
Ov.Met.4.288ff.
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Salmonis.
A nymph ancestor of Jason,
Captain of the ARGONAUTS.
Val.5.478.
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Sebethis.
Mother of Oebalus 2, an ally of Turnus against
Aeneas in Italy. Her husband was
Telon, King of Teleboan Capreae [Isle of Capri].
Vir.Aen.7.733.
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Sinoe.
Nurse of Pan.
Pau.8.30.3.
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Sose.
Mother of Agreus 2, one of the PANS who came to join
Dionysus 2 in his campaign
against India.
Nonn.14.91.
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Syllis.
Mother of Zeuxippus, who became king of
Sicyon when Phaestus 2 migrated to
Crete.
Pau.2.6.7.
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Synallasis.
One of the Ionides Nymphs in Elis
(these were: Calliphaeia, Synallasis, Pegaea and Iasis).
They were believed to cure diseases.
Pau.6.22.7; Strab.8.3.32.
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Syrinx.
Arcadian hamadryad [see Pan].
Long.2.34; Nonn.16.332ff.; Ov.Met.1.689ff.
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Teledice.
Alleged wife of Phoroneus,
king of what later was named the Peloponnesus and said to be
the first man.
Apd.2.1.1; Pau.1.39.5, 2.16.4, 2.35.4; Parth.1.1.
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Telphusa.
A naiad who told Apollo to
build his temple elsewhere. For this,
Apollo covered her stream with
rocks.
Hom.Apo.3.244ff., 3.377ff.
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Theisoa.
Nurse of Zeus.
Pau.8.38.3.
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Thelpusa.
Arcadian nymph, daughter of the River God Ladon 1. After
her the city in Arcadia was
named.
Pau.8.25.1.
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Thisbe 2.
Boeotian nymph. After her the city in Boeotia was named.
Pau.9.32.3.
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Thoosa.
Mother of the Cyclops
Polyphemus 2, a huge, wild
cannibal with one eye on his forehead, whom
Odysseus blinded.
Polyphemus 2 was in love with
Galatea 1 but was refused by her. [See above Nymph 2
Symaethian.]
Apd.Ep.7.4; Hom.Od.1.71.
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Tithorea.
Phocian nymph. After her the city in Phocis was named.
Pau.10.32.9.
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Urea.
Daughter of Poseidon.
Consorted with Apollo and gave
birth to Ileus 1.
Hes.CWE.83; Hyg.Fab.161.
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Venilia.
Mother of Canens by Janus, and of Turnus and Juturna by
Daunus.
Janus is a two-headed god, sometimes
called Chaos for being a deity of
old. He sits with the HORAE at
heaven's gate and regulates the comings and the goings.
Janus is also the patron of civil and social order.
Canens was a gifted singer who melted away and
vanished.
Daunus was King of Apulia (southern Italy), the
same who gave his daughter and lands to Diomedes 2.
Turnus was King of the Rutulians in Italy, who
opposed Aeneas, wished to marry
Lavinia 2 and was backed by her mother Amata of whom he was
a nephew.
Juturna became a goddess of lakes and rivers in
return for the maidenhood Zeus had
ravished.
Ov.Met.14.320ff.; Vir.Aen.10.76, 10.616, 12.138.
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