Naïs (mythology)
{{short description|Several women in Greek mythology}}
{{other uses|Nais (disambiguation)}}
In Greek mythology, Naïs ({{langx|grc|Ναΐς|Naïs}}) is the name of the following figures:
- Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.Xenophon, On Hunting [https://topostext.org/work/796#1 1]
- Naïs, the mother of King Hypseus of the Lapiths, by the river-god Peneus.Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode [https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterainp02drac/page/222/mode/1up?view=theater 9.27b] with Pherecydes as the authority In some accounts, the mother of Hypseus was called PhilyraScholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode [https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterainp02drac/page/222/mode/1up?view=theater 9.27b] with Achesandros as the authority or Creusa.Pindar, Pythian Ode [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0033,002:9 9.16]. Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990; Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#69.1 4.69.1] In another version of the myth, the latter was called the daughter of Naïs and Peneus instead.Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode [https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterainp02drac/page/222/mode/1up?view=theater 9.27c]
- Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.Ovid, Metamorphoses [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.183.xml 4.32]
- Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers [https://topostext.org/work/154#22 22]
- Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.Athenaeus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ath.+7.47&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003 7.47]
References
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Bibliography
- Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. Or Banquet Of The Learned Of Athenaeus. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.
- Pseudo-Plutarch, Names of Rivers and Mountains, in Plutarch, The Moralia, translations edited by William Watson Goodwin (1831-1912), from the edition of 1878, a text in the public domain digitized by the Internet Archive and reformatted/lightly corrected by Brady Kiesling.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 42. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1916.
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Category:Women in Greek mythology