"the themes of courtly love emphasised in the ""Lay"" and moves further away from Ovid’s initial account. The curse of Athena is absent entirely, and the tale is overtly moralised. Unlike in the ""Lay"", however, this moral message is aimed solely at women; this despite the fact that the offending behaviour is perpetrated by Narcissus not Echo. Echo (mythology) In Greek mythology, Echo (; , ""Ēkhō"", ""echo"", from ἦχος (""ēchos""), ""sound"") was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from"
"not specified in the source texts. For lists of Naiads, Oceanids, Dryades etc. see respective articles. Nymph A nymph ( ""nýmphē,"" Ancient: Modern: ) in Greek mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek ""polis"". They are beloved by many and dwell in mountainous regions and forests"
"have its own local nymph, an oread. Peak sanctuaries, a feature of Minoan civilization on Crete, are also identified in some archaic sites in mainland Greece. They are not thought to be dedicated to the mountain itself. Ourea In Greek mythology, the Ourea ( ""mountains,"" plural of ) were progeny of Gaia, members of the Greek primordial deities, who were the first-born elemental gods and goddesses. According to Hesiod: ""And [Gaia] brought forth long hills, graceful haunts""<br> ""of the goddess Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills."" The nine ""ourea"", Aitna, Athos, Helikon, Kithairon, Nysos, Olympus, Oreios, Parnes,"
"Nymph A nymph ( ""nýmphē,"" Ancient: Modern: ) in Greek mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek ""polis"". They are beloved by many and dwell in mountainous regions and forests by springs or rivers; as Walter Burkert (Burkert 1985:III.3.3) remarks, ""The idea that rivers are gods"
"Ourea In Greek mythology, the Ourea ( ""mountains,"" plural of ) were progeny of Gaia, members of the Greek primordial deities, who were the first-born elemental gods and goddesses. According to Hesiod: ""And [Gaia] brought forth long hills, graceful haunts""<br> ""of the goddess Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills."" The nine ""ourea"", Aitna, Athos, Helikon, Kithairon, Nysos, Olympus, Oreios, Parnes, and Tmolus, like Uranus, and Pontus, were parthenogenetic offspring of Gaia alone. The Greeks rarely personified an individual mountain; an exception might be Tmolus, both a king and a mountain in Lydia. Each mountain was said to"
"Nysiads In Greek Mythology, the Nysiads or Nysiades (Νυσιάδες) were Okeanid nymphs of mythical Mount Nysa. Zeus entrusted the infant god Dionysus to their care, and the Nysiads raised him with the assistance of the old satyr-god Seilenos. When Dionysus was grown the Nysiads joined his company as the first of the Bakkhantes. The names of the nymphs include: Also mentioned are Callichore and Calyce (after whom two moons of Jupiter, Kallichore and Kalyke, are named). In later tellings of Dionysus's infancy, the Nysiades appear to be identified with the Hyades. The term might have been used for the Pleiades"
"erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy). Sometimes they are referred to as water nymphs having been born from the four sacred springs on Helicon which flowed from the ground after Pegasus, the winged horse, stamped his hooves on the ground. Along with her sister Muses, Euterpe was believed to have lived on Mt. Olympus where she and her sisters entertained their father and the other Olympian gods with their great artistry. Later on, tradition also placed them on Mt. Helicon in Boeotia where there was a major cult center to the"
"Nomia (mythology) In Greek mythology, Nomia (Νομία) was a nymph of Arcadia, where the local people believed the Nomian Mountains to have been named after her. She apparently was a companion of Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon: Pausanias mentions a painting of the two, with Callisto sitting on a bearskin and her feet lying on Nomia's knees; there is also Pero portrayed next to them. Nomia is also a name for a type of water goddess, many believe that she started off as nothing but a nymph until one day Callistio, decided to trade her love for a god status"
"and the Hyades as Dionysus's tutors altogether. Nysiads In Greek Mythology, the Nysiads or Nysiades (Νυσιάδες) were Okeanid nymphs of mythical Mount Nysa. Zeus entrusted the infant god Dionysus to their care, and the Nysiads raised him with the assistance of the old satyr-god Seilenos. When Dionysus was grown the Nysiads joined his company as the first of the Bakkhantes. The names of the nymphs include: Also mentioned are Callichore and Calyce (after whom two moons of Jupiter, Kallichore and Kalyke, are named). In later tellings of Dionysus's infancy, the Nysiades appear to be identified with the Hyades. The term"
"Nomia is also a possible name for the Sicilian nymph who loved Daphnis but was abandoned by him and, in revenge, blinded the young man and changed him into a rock. Nomia (mythology) In Greek mythology, Nomia (Νομία) was a nymph of Arcadia, where the local people believed the Nomian Mountains to have been named after her. She apparently was a companion of Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon: Pausanias mentions a painting of the two, with Callisto sitting on a bearskin and her feet lying on Nomia's knees; there is also Pero portrayed next to them. Nomia is also a"
"in nature – forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas. They were often depicted as beautiful young women with attributes symbolizing whatever natural formation they ruled over. Nymphs are most often described as either the daughters of Zeus, the river Oceanus, or Gaia, though various other gods and goddesses have been attributed to their parentage over the years. Many gods are also described as having various nymph companions; for example, Artemis is known for her band of huntress nymphs, Poseidon is often accompanied by sea nymphs called Nereides, and nymph handmaidens were common companions to the goddesses of Olympos. Some"
"Meliae In Greek mythology, the Meliae (; ""Meliai"" or Μελιάδες ""Meliades"") were usually considered to be the nymphs of the ash tree, whose name they shared. According to Hesiod, the Meliae (probably meaning all tree-nymphs) were born from the drops of blood that fell on Gaia [Earth] when Cronus castrated Uranus. In Hesiod's ""Works and Days"", the ash trees, perhaps meaning the Melian nymphs, are said to have been the progenitors of the generation of men belonging to Hesiod's Bronze Age. The Meliae were nurses of the infant Zeus in the Cretan Dikti mountains, according to the 3rd century BC"
"Dryad A dryad (; , ""sing"".: ) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. ""Drys"" signifies ""oak"" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs. These were nymphs of the laurel trees. The Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides were nymphs of apple and other fruit trees and the protectors of sheep. The Greek word ""melas""--from which their"
"Nysa (mythology) In Greek mythology, the mountainous district of Nysa (), variously associated with Ethiopia, Libya, Tribalia, India or Arabia by Greek mythographers, was the traditional place where the rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant god Dionysus, the ""Zeus of Nysa"". Though the worship of Dionysus came into mainland Greece from Asia Minor (where the Hittites called themselves ""Nesi"" and their language ""Nesili""), the various locations assigned to Nysa may simply be conventions to show that a romantically remote and mythical land was envisaged. The name ""Nysa"" may even be an invention to explain the god's name. Even Homer"
"were known by their Thracian name: the Haemus Mons. Scholars consider that the name Haemus (Αἷμος) is derived from a Thracian word ""*saimon"", 'mountain ridge'. The name of the place where the range meets the Black Sea, Cape Emine, is derived from ""Aemon"". A folk etymology holds that 'Haemus' derives from the Greek word ""haema"" () meaning 'blood', and is based on Greek mythology. During a fight between Zeus and the monster/titan Typhon, Zeus injured Typhon with thunder; and Typhon's blood fell on the mountains, which were then named for this battle. Other names used to refer to the mountains"
"Haemus Mons In earlier times, the Balkan Mountains were known as the Haemus Mons (). It is believed that the name is derived from a Thracian word ""*saimon"", 'mountain ridge', which is unattested but conjectured as the original Thracian form of Greek ""Emos"". Another classic etymology derives the name 'Haemos' from the myth about the fight of Zeus and the dragon Typhon: In antiquity, the mountain range and the area around it was populated by free Thracian peoples such as the Bessi, Dii, and Satrae. Herodotus records that an oracle-shrine of Dionysus (originally a Thracian god whose cult became widespread"
"nymphs [of Mount Ida] who haunt the pleasant woods (alsea), or of those who inhabit this lovely mountain (ὄρος - oros) and the springs of rivers (pegai potamon) and grassy meads (pisea)."" Alseid In Greek mythology, Alseids (; Ἀλσηΐδες) were the nymphs of glens and groves. Of the Classical writers, the first and perhaps only poet to reference ""alseids"" is Homer. Rather than ""alseid"" he used the spelling ""alsea"". The three uses of ""alsea"" by Homer are as follows: ""The nymphs who live in the lovely groves (ἄλσεα - alsea), and the springs of rivers (πηγαὶ ποταμῶν - pegai potamon)"
"Mount Ida In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the ""Mountain of the Goddess"": Mount Ida in Crete; and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey) which was also known as the ""Phrygian Ida"" in classical antiquity and is the mountain that is mentioned in the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called ""Mater Idaea"" (""Idaean Mother""), while Rhea, often identified with"
"of wild animals; Homer used this title. As Kourotrophos, she was the nurse of youths. As Locheia, she was the goddess of childbirth and midwives. She was sometimes known as Cynthia, from her birthplace on Mount Cynthus on Delos, or Amarynthia from a festival in her honor originally held at Amarynthus in Euboea. She was sometimes identified by the name Phoebe, the feminine form of her brother Apollo's solar epithet Phoebus. Alphaea, Alpheaea, or Alpheiusa (Gr. , , or ) was an epithet that Artemis derived from the river god Alpheius, who was said to have been in love with"
"Mount Olympus Mount Olympus (; ""Olympos"", for Modern Greek also transliterated ""Olimbos"", or ) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Pieria and Larissa, about southwest from Thessaloniki. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks, deep gorges, and exceptional biodiversity. The highest peak, Mytikas (Μύτικας ""Mýtikas""), meaning ""nose"", rises to . It is one of the highest peaks in Europe in terms of topographic prominence. Olympus is notable in Greek mythology as the home of the Greek gods, on Mytikas peak. Mount Olympus is"
"he struck two copulating snakes. Cyllene (or Kyllene) herself was a mountain nymph (an oread) who had taken for her consort Pelasges in the most ancient times that Greek mythographers could recall. There was a port in Elis in Antiquity named Cyllene near the mouth of the Alfeios, where the traveler Pausanias noted the image of Hermes, ""most devoutly worshiped by the inhabitants, is merely the male member upright on the pedestal."" Several modern places are also named ""Kyllini"". The Pleiades were born on Mount Kyllini. Mount Kyllini Mount Kyllini or Mount Cyllene (; , ; sometimes , ), is"
"Hesperides In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες ) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the ""Daughters of the Evening"" or ""Nymphs of the West"". They were also called the Atlantides (Ἀτλαντίδων) from their reputed father, the Titan Atlas. The name means ""originating from Hesperos"" (evening). ""Hesperos"", or ""Vesper"" in Latin, is the origin of the name Hesperus, the evening star (i.e. the planet Venus) as well as having a shared root with the English word ""west"". Ordinarily the Hesperides number three, like the other Greek triads (the Three Graces and the"
"of Pleistus. Corycia In Greek mythology, Corycia (Ancient Greek: Κωρύκια ""Korykia"") or Corycis (Kôrukis), was a naiad who lived on Mount Parnassus in Phocis. Her father was the local river-god Kephisos or Pleistos of northern Boeotia. With Apollo, she became the mother of Lycoreus (Lyrcorus) who gave his name to the city Lycoreia. Corycia was one of the nymphs of the springs of the Corycian Cave which was named after her. She was related to the nymph, Castalia, who presided over the sacred springs at Delphi. Corycia was closely identified with Kleodora and Melaina. The plural, Coryciae, is applied to"
"Corycia In Greek mythology, Corycia (Ancient Greek: Κωρύκια ""Korykia"") or Corycis (Kôrukis), was a naiad who lived on Mount Parnassus in Phocis. Her father was the local river-god Kephisos or Pleistos of northern Boeotia. With Apollo, she became the mother of Lycoreus (Lyrcorus) who gave his name to the city Lycoreia. Corycia was one of the nymphs of the springs of the Corycian Cave which was named after her. She was related to the nymph, Castalia, who presided over the sacred springs at Delphi. Corycia was closely identified with Kleodora and Melaina. The plural, Coryciae, is applied to the daughters"
"Aegina (mythology) Aegina (; ) was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos. The archaic Temple of Aphaea, the ""Invisible Goddess"", on the island was later subsumed by the cult of Athena. ""Aphaia"" (Ἀφαῖα) may be read as an attribute of Aegina that provides an epithet, or as a doublet of the goddess. Though the name ""Aegina"" betokens a goat-nymph, such as was Cretan Amalthea, she was given a mainland identity as the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope;"
"Britomartis Britomartis () was a Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes believed to be an oread, or a mountain nymph, but she was often conflated or syncretized with Artemis and Aphaea, the ""invisible"" patroness of Aegina. She is also known as ""Diktynna"" (Δίκτυννα; derived by Hellenistic writers as from δίκτυα [""diktya""], ""hunting nets""). According to Solinus, the name 'Britomartis' is from a Cretan dialect; he also says that her name means ""virgo dulcis"", or ""sweet virgin"". Solinus also identifies her explicitly as the Cretan Artemis. Hesychius of Alexandria"
"4.5.5, Virgil Georgics 1.492.) Haemus Mons is also a 10 km high mountain on the Jupiter moon Io. Haemus Mons In earlier times, the Balkan Mountains were known as the Haemus Mons (). It is believed that the name is derived from a Thracian word ""*saimon"", 'mountain ridge', which is unattested but conjectured as the original Thracian form of Greek ""Emos"". Another classic etymology derives the name 'Haemos' from the myth about the fight of Zeus and the dragon Typhon: In antiquity, the mountain range and the area around it was populated by free Thracian peoples such as the Bessi,"
"Orseis In Greek mythology, Orseïs (; Ancient Greek: Ὀρσηΐς, derived from ὄρσω - ""orsô"", ""to rouse, stir, awaken, excite or arise"") was the water-nymph (Naiad) of a spring in Thessalia, Greece, and the mythical ancestor of the Greeks. In some accounts, she was described as a mountain nymph (oread). It is uncertain whether Orseis was believed to be the daughter of Oceanus or the river-god of Thessalia, Peneios. There is even a possibility that she was the daughter of Zeus and Deino the Graeae. According to the ""Library"", Orseis married Hellen, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and brother of Pandora,"
"Pegasides Pegasides () were nymphs of Greek mythology connected with wells and springs, specifically those that the mythical horse Pegasus created by striking the ground with his hooves. According to Greek mythological tradition the winged horse Pegasus was the son of Poseidon, sea and river god of the Greeks, equivalent to the Roman Neptune. The hero Bellerophon needed the untamed Pegasus to help him defeat the monster Chimera. Hence, while Pegasus was drinking at the spring Pirene in Corinth, Bellerophon caught him. Pegasus, startled, struck a rock with his hoof, creating the spring Hippocrene on Mount Helicon. The name Pegasides"
"Taygete In Classical Greek mythology, Taygete (; , , ) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to the ""Bibliotheca"" (3.10.1) and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as ""potnia theron"", ""Mistress of the animals"", with its likely roots in prehistory. Mount Taygetos in Laconia, dedicated to the goddess, was her haunt. As he mastered each of the local nymphs one by one, Olympic Zeus pursued Taygete, who invoked her protectress Artemis. The goddess turned Taygete into a doe with golden horns, any distinction between the Titaness in her human form and in her doe form is"
"Berger suggests that Queen Guinevere may have become a powerful female knight known as Britomart after the death of the King. Britomartis Britomartis () was a Greek goddess of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes believed to be an oread, or a mountain nymph, but she was often conflated or syncretized with Artemis and Aphaea, the ""invisible"" patroness of Aegina. She is also known as ""Diktynna"" (Δίκτυννα; derived by Hellenistic writers as from δίκτυα [""diktya""], ""hunting nets""). According to Solinus, the name 'Britomartis' is from a Cretan dialect; he also says"
"Nymphs (Finnish TV series) Nymphs (Finnish: ""Nymfit"") is a Finnish fantasy-drama television series. The series is based on Greek mythology as the beautiful and immortal nymphs are living in a modern-day Helsinki. The nymphs need to have sex once a month in order to stay alive and run away from satyrs that persecute them. Gummerus is publishing ""Nymfit"" as a book series. The first part of the book was written by Sari Luhtanen and Miikko Oikkonen and was titled ""Nymfit – Montpellierin legenda"" (""Nymphs – The Legend of Montpellier""). The Finnish version of the book was published August 29, 2013"
"Pleiades (Greek mythology) The Pleiades (; ), companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They were the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Dionysus. They were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain. Classicists debate the origin of the name ""Pleiades"". It ostensibly"