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| Name | Referenced in | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Abarbarea (#1) | Homer Iliad 6.21ff.; Nonnus 15.378 | She often reproached Nicaea [propably a Dryad] for having killed Hymnus. She consorted with Bucolion, son of King Laomedon of Troy, and had sons by him, Aesepus and Pedasus, who were killed by Euryalus during the Trojan War. |
| Abarbarea (#2) | Nonnus 40.535ff | One of the three Naiads who are at the origin of the Tyrian race. They were joined to sons of the soil [the Autochthonous]. |
| Amalthea. | Apollodonus 2.7.5; Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena 162; Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 48; Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.70.3; Hyginus Poetica Astronomica 2.13; Hyginus Fabulae 139; Nonnus 27.298; Ovid Fasti 5.115. | Nurse of Zeus, who owned a cornicupia. She is also said to have been a goat or to have owned a she-goat who suckled Zeus. |
| Argyra | Pausinias History of Greece 7.23.1-2 | A Naiad who loved Selemnus while he was still young and handsome; but later in time she would not visit him. Selemnus died of love and was turned into the river Selemnus by Aphrodite, who also made him forget Argyra. |
| Batia | Apollodonus 3.10.5; Pausanias History of Greece 2.2.3 | Wife of the Laconian King Oebalus |
| Caliadne | Apollodonus 2.1.5 | One of the many wives of Aegyptus. Her sons by him were Eurylochus , Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermus, Dryas, Potamon, Cisseus, Lixus, Imbrus, Bromius, Polyctor, and Chthonius |
| Callirrhoe | Nonnus 40.535ff | One of the three Naiads who are at the origin of the Tyrian race. They were joined to sons of the soil [the Autochthonous]. |
| Ceto | Nonnus 26.355 | Ceto is identified as a Naiad, and as her parents are Oceanus & Tethys(an Oceanid). Astris, one of the Heliades, is said to be her daughter by Helius. |
| Cleocharia | Apollodonus 3.10.3, 3.15.5; Pausinias 1.39.6, 3.1.1 | Wife of Lelex, first king in Laconia who arrived from Egypt. |
| Creusa | Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 4.69.1; Pindar, Pythian (Odes) 9.16 | Tuesday, June 26, 2001daughter of Gaia. Mother by the River God Peneus of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths and of Stilbe. |
| Cyane | Ovid Methamorphoses 5.409ff | A Naiad who opposed Hades when he ravished ersephone. She dissolved away in tears. |
| Cyllene | Apollodonus 3.8.1; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities 1.13.1 | A Naiad, after whom Mount Cyllene is named. According to some mother of the impious Lycaon , but according to others his wife. |
| Diopatra | Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 22 | Poseidon was in love with her, said Cerambus, who also said that Poseidon transformed Diopatra's sisters into poplars. |
| Drosera | Nonnus 40.535ff | One of the three Naiads who are at the origin of the Tyrian race. They were joined to sons of the soil [see Autochthonous]. |
| Hecaerge | Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292; Nonnus 5.491, 48.332 | Daughter of the North Wind Boreas [see Winds], a Naiad in the train of Artemis |
| Hieromneme | Apollodonus 3.12.2; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities 1.62.2; Hyginus Fabulae 224 | A Naiad, daughter of the River God Simois. Some say she is the mother of Ganymedes. |
| Lara | Ovid Fasti 2.599ff | Daughter of the River God Almo. Lara could not hold her tongue and reported to Hera that Zeus loved Juturna. For this Zeus wrenched from her the indiscreet tongue, and told Hermes to take her to Hades as she was to become an infernal Nymph. In this way she became Tacita, The Silent Goddess (Dea Muta). Lara consorted with Hermes and gave birth to the Lares, twin brothers, who guard the crossroads and ever keep watch in the city. |
| Loxo | Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292; Nonnus 5.489, 48.334 | Daughter of the North Wind Boreas. A Naiad in the train of Artemis. |
| Melite | Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.538 | Daughter of the River God Aegaeus. Some say she was mother of Hyllus , son of Heracles. Hyllus killed Eurystheus and later sought to effect the return of the Heraclides to the Peloponnesus. |
| Naiad-X1. | Apollodonus 1.7.7 | According to some mother of Aetolus, who called Aetolia after himself and came to the throne after his brother Epeius was made to flee. |
| Naiad-X2 | Apollodonus 1.9.6 | Wife of Magnes after whom Magnesia was called. One of their sons, Polydectes, colonized Seriphus and there became King. Polydectes fell in love with Danae and sent Perseus to bring the head of Medusa. |
| Naiad-X3 | Apollodorus, The Library, "Epitome" 2.13 | Mother of several children of Thyestes, son of Atreus and King of Mycenae. |
| Naiad-X4 | Homer Iliad 20.381ff | Mother of Iphition, leader of a large contingent of Trojans during the Trojan War. Iphition was killed by Achilles. |
| Naiad-X5 | Nonnus 5.309 | This is the Naiad who told Artemis that Actaeon had espied her when she was bathing. As a result Actaeon was changed into a stag and mangled by his own hounds. |
| Naiad-X6 | Nonnus 7.225 | A Naiad who thought out loud about the love between Zeus and Semele. |
| Nymph-X5 | Homer Iliad 14.444 | Mother of the Trojans Satnius and Thestor. Satnius was killed by Ajax and Thestor by Patroclus in the course of the Trojan War. |
| Nymphs Lamusides | Hyginus Fabulae 192; Nonnus 9.28ff, 14.143ff |
Daughters of Lamus. They were in charge of taking care of the child Dionysus, but having been maddened by Hera would have chopped up the baby had not Hermes come and stolen Dionysus. NYMPHS Lamusides are the mothers of the horned centaurs. The Hyades were also said to have been the nurses of Donysus. |
| Oenoe | Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.623; Pausinias History of Greece 8.47.3 | One of the Nurses of Zeus. Mother of Sicinus who renamed the island Oenoe [one of the Cyclades] and called it Sicinus after himself. |
| Oenone | Apollodonus3.12.6.Ovid, Heroides 5.3, Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances 4.1-7, 34; Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 10.284, 10.300ff, 10.458; Strabo, Geography 13.1.33 | Daughter of the River God Cebren. Oenone had learned from Rhea the art of prophecy, and warned Paris no to sail to fetch Helen; but failing to persuade him, she told him to come to her if he were wounded, for she alone could heal him. When he had carried off Helen from Sparta and Troy was besieged, he was shot by Philoctetes with the bow of Heracles 1, and went back to Oenone on Mount Ida. But she, nursing her grievance, refused to heal him. Some say that afterwards she repented for not healing Paris and hanged herself when she found him dead, but others say that after having repented for not healing him she leapt onto his funeral pyre and burned to death. Paris & Oenone 1 had a child Corythus who came to Troy to help the Trojans, and there fell in love with Helen. But Paris, having detected him and his aims concerning Helen, killed him. However others say that Corythus was the son of Paris & Helen. |
| Periboea | Apollodonus 3.10.6; Homer Odyssey 4.797; Strabo, Geography 10.2.9 | Wife of Icarius, father of Penelope, Odysseus' wife. |
| Pirene | Apollodonus 3.10.4; Pausinias 2.2.3,2.3.2 | Daughter of Oebalus, King of Laconia, or of the River God Achelous. A woman who became a spring because of her tears shed in lamentation for her son Cenchrias' death. Cenchrias was killed unintentionally by Artemis. Her other child, Leches, gave his name to the Corinthian harbour of Lechaeum. |
| Polyxo | Apollodonus 2.1.5 | One of the many wives of Danaus, father of the 50 Danaids. |
| Praxithea. | Apollodonus 3.14.6-8 | Wife of Erichthonius. Erichthonius, whose body's lower part was snake-formed, became king of Athens after having expelled Amphictyon. Athena brought him up unknown to the other gods. |
| Sagaritis | Ovid Fasti 4.229 | She was loved by Attis although he had promised Cybele to remain chaste. Because of his broken promise the goddess, by wounding the Naiad's tree, also destroyed her, since her fate was dependent on the tree's. |
| Salmacis | Ovid Methamorphoses 4.288ff | The Naiad who fell in love with Hermaphroditus. Their bodies were united in one. |
| Telphusa | Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3.244ff., 3.377ff | A Naiad who told Apollo to build his temple elsewhere. For this Apollo covered her stream with rocks. |
| Theisoa | Pausinias History of Greece 8.38.3 | Nurse of Zeus |
| Thelpusa. | Pausinias 8.25.1 | Arcadian Nymph, daughter of the River God Ladon . The city in Arcadia was named after her. |
