Oread

Oread

Oread

Type of nymph in Greek mythology

For other uses, see Oread (disambiguation).
"Oréade" redirects here. For the submarine, see French submarine Oréade.

In Greek mythology, an Oread (/ˈɔːriˌæd, ˈɔːriəd/; Ancient Greek: Ὀρειάς, romanized: Oreiás, stem Ὀρειάδ-, Oreiád-, Latin: Oreas/Oread-, from ὄρος, 'mountain'; French: Oréade) or Orestiad (/ɔːˈrɛstiˌæd, -iəd/; Ὀρεστιάδες, Orestiádes) is a mountain nymph. Oreads differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idaeae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelion, etc. Myths associated the Oreads with Artemis, since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mountains and rocky precipices.

Les Oréades (1902) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, in Musée d'Orsay
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The generic term "oread" itself appears to be Hellenistic (first attested in the Epitaph of Adonis (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος) of Bion of Smyrna, fl. c. 100 BCE) .[1]

List of Oreads

The number of Oreads includes but is not limited to:

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Honours

References

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    Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v. text at Perseus project
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    Diodorus Siculus, 5.76.3
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    Servius ad Virgil, Aeneid 1.509
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    Pausanias, 3.26.11
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    Apollodorus, 3.8.1
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    Pausanias, 10.5.5
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    Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 970
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    "Echo" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 884.
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    Antoninus Liberalis, 22; Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.353–356
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    Apollodorus, 1.4.5; Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.2
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    Pausanias, 8.38.0
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    Apollodorus, 3.12.6
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    Antoninus Liberalis, 13
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    Propertius, Elegies 1.18
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    Pausanias, 8.30.2
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    Plutarch, Life of Aristides 11. 3; Pausanias, 9.3.9
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