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In Greek mythology, the naiads (/ ˈ n aɪ æ d z, ˈ n eɪ æ d z,-ə d z /; Ancient Greek: ναϊάδες, romanized: naïádes), sometimes also hydriads, [1] are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.
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]
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.
Water nymphs (Hydriades or Ephydriades) Haliae (sea and seashores) Nereids: Mediterranean Sea: 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris [44] Naiads, Naides (fresh water) Crinaeae (fountains) 3. Limnades, Limnatides (lakes) 4. Pegaeae (springs) 5. Potameides (rivers) Oceanids: daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, [45] any freshwater, typically clouds and ...
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.
Doré's naiads, engaged in the same occupation, were eventually identified more elegantly by Dorothea Tanning as akin to mermaids. [33] Later artists reinterpreted the nymphs tumbling among the waves, as depicted by both painters, in order to portray individual Oceanids as female manifestations of sea foam.
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.
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.