Pegaeae
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In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (/pəˈdʒiːiː/; Ancient Greek: Πηγαῖαι) were a type of naiad that lived in springs. They were often considered great aunts of the river gods (Potamoi), thus establishing a mythological relationship between a river itself and its springs.
List of Pegaeae[edit]
The number of Pegaeae included but was not limited to:[1]
| Names | Notes |
|---|---|
| Group | |
| The Anigrides | daughters of the river god Anigros, were believed to cure skin diseases[2][3] |
| The Corycian Nymphs | |
| • Coryceia | |
| • Cleodora | |
| • Daphnis | |
| • Melaina | |
| The Cyrtonian nymphs | local springs in the town of Cyrtones, Boeotia[4] |
| The Deliades | daughters of Inopus, god of the river Inopus on the island of Delos[5] |
| The Himerian Naiads | [6][7] |
| The Inachides | daughters of the river god Inachus[8][9] |
| • Io | |
| • Amymone | |
| • Philodice | [10] |
| • Messeis | |
| • Hyperia | |
| The Ionides | [11] |
| • Calliphaea | |
| • Iasis | |
| • Pegaea | |
| • Messeis | |
| • Synallaxis | |
| 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[18] |
| The Rhyndacides | daughters of the river god Rhyndacus |
| The Spercheides | daughters of the river god Spercheus |
| Individuals: | |
| • Albunea | |
| • Alexirhoe | daughter of the river god Grenikos[19] |
| • Archidemia | [20] |
| • Arethusa | [21][22][23] |
| • Castalia or Cassotis | [24] |
| • Comaetho | daughter or wife of the river god Cydnus[25] |
| • Cyane | |
| • 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 |
| • Hagno | one of the nurses of infant Zeus |
| • Ismene | [26] |
| • Langia | [27] |
| • Magea | [20] |
| • Milichie | [20] |
| • Metope | wife of Asopus |
| • Pegasis | daughter of the river god Grenikos[28] |
| • Peirene | |
| • Pharmaceia | nymph of a poisonous spring in Attika and Orithyia's playmate[29][30] |
| • Psanis | a local spring in Arcadia |
| • Salmacis | |
| • Strophia | a spring on Mount Cithaeron near Thebes; barely personified[31] |
| • Telphousa | |
| • Temenitis | [20] |
References[edit]
- ^ "Theoi Project - List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs". Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ Strabo, Geography 8.3.19
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 5.5.11
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.24.4
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn IV to Delos, 252
- ^ Pindar, Odes Olympian, 12
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 5. 1
- ^ Callimachus, Aitia Fragment 66
- ^ Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4. 374 ff
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 6.22.7
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 13.96 ff
- ^ Strabo, Geography 9.2.25; 10.3.17
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.34.4
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 1225 ff.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ^ Theocritus, Idylls, 13. 44
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.5.1
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 762 ff
- ^ a b c d Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3. 89, in a list of Sicilian 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
- ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 10.8.9; 10.24.7
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 2. 143-144 & 40 141-143
- ^ Bibliotheca 2.6
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 4.716
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 3.300
- ^ Plato, Phaedrus 229
- ^ "Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 238". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75 ff