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2. Naiad - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Potamides - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Calliphaea - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Hylas and the Nymphs (painting) - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Najas - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. List of Oceanids - Wikipedia

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   The Oceanids (The Naiads of the Sea), Gustave Doré, 1860s. In Greek mythology, the nymph daughters of the Titan Oceanus (Ocean), were known collectively as the Oceanids. Four ancient sources give lists of names of Oceanids. The oldest, and longest such list, given by the late 8th–early 7th century BC Greek poet Hesiod, names 41 Oceanids. [1]