Rhapso

{{Short description|Goddess mentioned in an Athenian inscription}}

In Greek mythology, Rhapso{{Pronunciation-needed|date=February 2025}} ({{langx|grc|Ῥαψώ}}) was a nymph or a minor goddess worshipped at Athens. She is known solely from an inscription of the 4th century BCE, found at Phalerum.Inscriptiones Graecae, 2², 4547 Her name apparently derives from the Greek verb [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=rayw&la=greek#Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=r(a/ptw-contents ῥάπτω] "to sew" or "to stitch".{{cn|date=February 2025}}

According to some, she is associated with the Moirai (as a fate goddess) and Eileithyia (as a birth goddess); she somehow organized a man's thread of life, at birth, by some sort of stitching work (similar to Clotho of the Moirai). And according to others, she was possibly a patroness of seamstresses.Rice & Stambaugh 2009, p. 114.