Naïs_(mythology)

Naïs (mythology)

Naïs (mythology)

Several women in Greek mythology

For other uses, see Nais (disambiguation).

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

  • Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.[1]
  • Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.[2]
  • Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.[3]
  • Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Xenophon, On Hunting 1
  2. [2]
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.32
  3. [3]
    pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 22
  4. [4]
    Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 7.47

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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