Lilaea
{{Short description|Water deity, daughter of Cephisos}}
{{for multi|the plant|Triglochin scilloides|the city in ancient Phocis|Lilaea (ancient city)|the modern settlement|Lilaia (village)|the asteroid|213 Lilaea}}{{Greek myth (nymph)}}In Greek mythology, Lilaea or Lilaia (Ancient Greek: Λίλαια) may refer to two different women:
- Lilaea, a Naiad of a spring of the same name. She was the daughter of the river god Cephissus.Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 239; Pausanias, 10.32.4 The ancient polis of Lilaea, and the modern village of Lilaia in Phocis, and the asteroid 213 Lilaea are named after her.
- Lilaia, a maenad named in a vase painting.{{Cite book|last=Walters|first=Henry Beauchamp|url=|title=History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch|year=1905|volume=2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/66/mode/2up/ 66]}}
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References
- The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D2 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0137 Greek text available from the same website].
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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