Pegaeae
In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (Πηγαῖαι) were a type of naiad that lived in springs. They were often considered daughters of the river gods (Potamoi), thus establishing a mythological relationship between a river itself and its springs.
The number of Pegaeae included but was not limited to[1]:
- Albunea (Roman mythology)
- Alexirhoe, daughter of the river god Grenikos[2][3]
- The Anigrides (daughters of the river god Anigros, were believed to cure skin diseases)[4][5][6]
- Archidemia[7]
- Arethusa[8][9][10][11]
- Castalia, or Cassotis[12][13]
- Comaetho, daughter or wife of the river god Cydnus[14]
- The Corycian Nymphs (Coryceia, Cleodora, Daphnis, Melaina)
- Cyane
- The Cyrtonian nymphs (local springs in the town of Cyrtones, Boeotia)[15][16]
- The Deliades (daughters of Inopus, god of the river Inopus on the island of Delos)[17][18]
- Dirce, transformed into a spring (presumably into a nymph personifying it) after her death
- Gargaphie, or Plataia (one of the daughters of the river god Asopus)[19]
- Hagno, one of the nurses of infant Zeus
- The Himerian Naiads[20][21]
- The Inachides (daughters of the river god Inachus, namely Io, Amymone,[22] Philodice,[23] Messeis and Hyperia)[24][25][26]
- The Ionides (Calliphaea, Iasis, Pegaea and Synallaxis)[27]
- Ismene[28][29]
- The Ithacian nymphs (dwelled in sacred caves on Ithaca)[30]
- Langia[31]
- The Leibethrides (individual names include Libethrias and Petra)[32][33]
- Magea[7]
- Milichie[7]
- Metope (wife of Asopus)
- The Mysian Naiads (Euneica, Malis and Nycheia[34]), who dwelled in the spring of Pegae near the lake Askanios in Bithynia and were responsible for the kidnapping of Hylas[35][36]
- The Ortygian nymphs (local springs of Syracuse, Sicily)[37][38]
- Pegasis, daughter of the river god Grenikos[39]
- Peirene
- Pharmaceia, nymph of a poisonous spring in Attika and Orithyia's playmate[40][41]
- Psanis (a local spring in Arcadia)
- The Rhyndacides (daughters of the river god Rhyndacus)[42]
- Salmacis
- The Spercheides (daughters of the river god Spercheus)
- Strophia (a spring on Mount Cithaeron near Thebes; barely personified)[43][44]
- Telphousa
- Temenitis[7]
See also
References
- ^ Theoi Project - List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 762 ff
- ^ Theoi Project - Alexirhoe
- ^ Strabo, Geography 8.3.19
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 5.5.11
- ^ Theoi Project - Anigrides
- ^ a b c d Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3. 89, in a list of Sicilan springs, of which only Arethousa and Cyane are known to have been personified
- ^ Strabo, Geography 6. 2. 4
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 407 & 487 ff
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 3. 694 ff
- ^ Theoi Project - Arethousa
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 10.8.9; 10.24.7
- ^ Theoi Project - Castalia
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 2. 143-144 & 40 141-143
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.24.4
- ^ Theoi Project - Nymphai Kyrtoniai
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn IV to Delos, 252
- ^ Theoi Project - Deliades
- ^ Theoi Project - Plataia
- ^ Pindar, Odes Olympian, 12
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 5. 1
- ^ Theoi Project - Amymone
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511
- ^ Callimachus, Aitia Fragment 66
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4. 374 ff
- ^ Theoi Project - Inachides
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 6.22.7
- ^ Apollodorus, The Library 2.6
- ^ Theoi Project - Ismene
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 13.96 ff
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 4.716
- ^ Strabo, Geography 9.2.25; 10.3.17
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.34.4
- ^ Theocritus, Idylls, 13. 44
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 1225 ff.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.5.1
- ^ Theoi Project - Naiades Ortygiai
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 3.300
- ^ Plato, Phaedrus 229
- ^ Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 238
- ^ Theoi Project - Rhyndacides
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75 ff
- ^ Theoi Project - Strophia
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