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The Ithacian nymphs: Ithaca: dwelled in sacred caves on the island [25] The Leibethrides • Libethrias • Petra [26] [27] The Mysian Naiads: Bithynia dwelled in the spring of Pegae near the lake Askanios and were responsible for the kidnapping of Hylas [28] [29] • Euneica • Malis • Nycheia [30] The Ortygian nymphs: Sicily: local springs ...
Potamides (/ ˌ p oʊ ˈ t æ m ɪ ˌ d iː z /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ποταμίδες) [2] were a type of water nymph of Greco-Roman mythology. They were assigned to a class of nymphs of fresh water known as naiads and as such belonged to a category that presided over rivers and streams. [3]
Hylas and the Nymphs is an 1896 oil painting by John William Waterhouse.The painting depicts a moment from the Greek and Roman legend of the tragic youth Hylas, based on accounts by Ovid and other ancient writers, in which the enraptured Hylas is abducted by Naiads (female water nymphs) while seeking drinking water.
Naiads in Greek mythology are one of the many nymphs, also known as the :nymph of flowing water" [3] They live in springs, rivers, fountains and lakes. Naiads are represented as "beautiful, lighthearted and beneficent." [3] Calliphaea is a naiad, along with her three sisters, Synallasis, Pegaea and Iasis.
In Greek mythology, Nicaea (/ n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / nye-SEE-ə) or Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια, romanized: Níkaia, pronounced [nǐːkai̯a]) is a Naiad nymph ("the Astacid nymph", as referred to by Nonnus) of the springs or fountain of the ancient Greek colony of Nicaea in Bithynia (in northwestern Asia Minor) or else the goddess of the adjacent lake Ascanius.
The Ithacian nymphs dwelled in sacred caves on Ithaca [12] The Leibethrides [13] [14] • Libethrias • Petra The Mysian Naiads dwelled in the spring of Pegae near the lake Askanios in Bithynia and were responsible for the kidnapping of Hylas [15] [16] • Euneica • Malis • Nycheia [17] The Ortygian nymphs local springs of Syracuse, Sicily ...
The story of Comaetho has been compared to that of the river-god Alpheus and the nymph Arethusa, owing to their shared theme of contrast of the water and the fire of love. [4] It also bears similarities with another fragmentary text by Parthenius regarding the story of Byblis ; both myths feature maidens sufffering from their incestuous ...
Najas, the water-nymphs [3] or naiads, is a genus of aquatic plants. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, first described for modern science by Linnaeus in 1753.