Alseid

In Greek mythology, Alseids ({{IPAc-en|æ|l|ˈ|s|iː|ᵻ|d|z}}; {{Langx|grc|Ἀλσηΐδες|Alsēḯdes}}) were nymphs who inhabited groves.Grimal, s.v. Nymphs, p. 313; Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Nymphs, p. 1056.

They are mentioned by Apollonius of Rhodes,Larson, p. 281 n. 31. who relates that the woman Cleite hangs herself after the death of her husband, Cyzicus, who was killed by the hero Jason.Apollonius of Rhodes, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.89.xml 1.1053–1065]. On Jason's killing of Cyzicus, see Brill's New Pauly, [https://referenceworks-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/entries/NPOE/e322170.xml?rskey=rQcGH4&result=2 s.v. Doliones]. Upon her suicide:Apollonius of Rhodes, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.89.xml 1.1065–1069].

{{poem quote|Even the woodland nymphs themselves lamented her death, and from all the tears they shed for her from their eyes to the ground, the goddesses made a spring, which they call Cleite, the famous name of the unfortunate bride.}}

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia)Erbse, p. 3. states explicitly that "Alseids" is the name given to nymphs who occupy groves.Scholia A on Homer's Iliad, 20.8 (Dindorf, [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecainh02homeuoft/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater p. 193]).

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References

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99630-4}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL001/2009/volume.xml Harvard University Press].
Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecainh02homeuoft/page/n3/mode/2up Internet Archive]. [https://scaife.perseus.org/library/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5026.tlg001/ Perseus Digital Library].
Erbse, Hartmut, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. {{ISBN|9783110069112}}. {{DOI|10.1515/9783110850222}}.
Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Malden, Oxford, and Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, 1986. {{ISBN|0631201025}}. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas0000grim/page/n3/mode/2up Internet Archive].
Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-19-512294-7}}.
Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0198606419}}. [https://archive.org/details/oxfordclassicald0000unse_w0u7/page/n5/mode/2up Internet Archive].

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