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Naïs (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Naïs (Ancient Greek: Ναΐς, romanizedNaïs) is the name of the following figures:

  • Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.[1]
  • Naïs, the mother of King Hypseus of the Lapiths, by the river-god Peneus.[2] In some accounts, the mother of Hypseus was called Philyra[3] or Creusa.[4] In another version of the myth, the latter was called the daughter of Naïs and Peneus instead.[5]
  • Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.[6]
  • Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.[7]
  • Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Xenophon, On Hunting 1
  2. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27b with Pherecydes as the authority
  3. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27b with Achesandros as the authority
  4. ^ Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.16. Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990; Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.1
  5. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27c
  6. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.32
  7. ^ pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 22
  8. ^ Athenaeus, 7.47

Bibliography

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  • 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.