Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet NYMPH

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• In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse.
• Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
• The daughter of Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, Pasiphaë is notable as the mother of the Minotaur.
• Syrinx was a beautiful wood nymph who had many times attracted the attention of satyrs, and fled their advances in turn.
• She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.
• Amalthea is sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion ("Goat Mountain"), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage (the daughter of Oceanus, Helios, Haemonius, or—according to Lactantius—Melisseus), who brought him up on the milk of her goat.
• In Greek mythology, Adamanthea or Adamanteia was a nymph who helped raise the infant Zeus to hide him from his father, Cronus.
• Endeïs was either the daughter of Chiron and the nymph Chariclo; the daughter of Pandion of Athens; or the daughter of the Megarian warlord Sciron.
• According to Pausanias, Alpheus was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheus became a river, which flowing from the Peloponnese under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa.
• He was said to have been married to Cinna, or Cerdo, a nymph, or Teledice (or Laodice) also a nymph, or Perimede, or Peitho, and to have fathered a number of children including Apis, Car, Chthonia, Clymenus, Sparton, Lyrcus and Europs, an illegitimate son.
• Nycteus and his brother Lycus were the sons of either Chthonius, one of the Spartoi, or of the nymph Clonia and Hyrieus, the son of Poseidon and the Atlantid Alkyone, or of Poseidon and the Pleiad Celaeno.
• Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias:.
• She was sometimes believed to be an oread, a mountain nymph, but she was often conflated or syncretized with Artemis and Aphaea, the "invisible" patroness of Aegina.
• The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Menippe (mother of Phrastor by Pelasgus), Daphne and Stilbe.
• Arcas was married to either Laodamia (Leaneira), daughter of Amyclas of Sparta; Meganeira, daughter of Crocon; the nymph Chrysopeleia; or the Dryad Erato.
• According to Pausanias, Cassotis (Ancient Greek: Κασσοτίς) was a nymph from Parnassus, and the eponym of a spring at the Oracle at Delphi which was dedicated to Apollo.
• Chelone (mythology), a mountain nymph in Greek mythology, who appears in the Aesop's fable Zeus and the Tortoise.
• More specifically it is named after the nymph Corycia; however, its name etymologically derives from korykos, "knapsack".
• Oenone was a mountain nymph (an oread) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele and the Titaness Rhea.
• According to tradition, he was the son of Hermes and a nymph, despite which fact Daphnis himself was mortal.

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