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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.
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]
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.
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.
Pallas (Παλλάς, genitive Παλλάδος) [3] Tritonis (Τριτονίς), nymph of the homonymous salt-water lake in Libya , mother of Nasamon and Caphaurus (or Cephalion) by Amphithemis , [ 4 ] and, according to an archaic version of the myth, also of Athena by Poseidon .
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.
Hesiod says they are "dispersed far and wide" and everywhere "serve the earth and the deep waters", [3] while in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, the Argonauts, stranded in the desert of Libya, beg the "nymphs, sacred of the race of Oceanus" to show them "some spring of water from the rock or some sacred flow gushing from the earth". [4]
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]