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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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]

  5. Nymph (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Nymphs of aquatic insects, as in the Odonata, Ephemeroptera, and Plecoptera orders, are also called naiads, an Ancient Greek name for mythological water nymphs. Some entomologists have said that the terms larva, nymph and naiad [ 4 ] should be used according to the developmental mode classification (hemimetabolous, paurometabolous or ...

  6. 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.

  7. Pegaeae - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Salmacis - Wikipedia

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    Water Nymph Salmacis, engraving by Philip Galle (1587) Salmacis ( Ancient Greek : Σαλμακίς ) was an atypical Naiad nymph of Greek mythology . She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness .

  9. Cyane - Wikipedia

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    Cyane (sometimes anglicized as "Kyane") was a naiad, a freshwater nymph. After witnessing Hades's abduction of Persephone and trying to prevent it, Cyane was turned to liquid by Hades. [ 1 ] In Ovid 's version, she dissolved away in tears upon failing to save her friend and melted into her pool.

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