In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (/pəˈdʒiːiː/; Ancient Greek: Πηγαῖαι) were a type of naiad that lived in springs. They were often considered great aunts of the river gods (Potamoi), thus establishing a mythological relationship between a river itself and its springs.

List of Pegaeae

The number of Pegaeae included but was not limited to:[1]

Names Notes
Group
The Anigrides daughters of the river god Anigros, were believed to cure skin diseases[2][3]
The Corycian Nymphs
• Coryceia
• Cleodora
• Daphnis
• Melaina
The Cyrtonian nymphs local springs in the town of Cyrtones, Boeotia[4]
The Deliades daughters of Inopus, god of the river Inopus on the island of Delos[5]
The Himerian Naiads [6][7]
The Inachides daughters of the river god Inachus[8][9]
• Io
• Amymone
• Philodice [10]
• Messeis
• Hyperia
The Ionides [11]
• Calliphaea
• Iasis
• Pegaea
• Messeis
• Synallaxis
The Ithacian nymphs dwelled in sacred caves on Ithaca[12]
The Leibethrides [13][14]
• Libethrias
• Petra
The Mysian Naiads dwelled in the spring of Pegae near the lake Askanios in Bithynia and were responsible for the kidnapping of Hylas[15][16]
• Euneica
• Malis
• Nycheia [17]
The Ortygian nymphs local springs of Syracuse, Sicily[18]
The Rhyndacides daughters of the river god Rhyndacus
The Spercheides daughters of the river god Spercheus
Individuals:
• Albunea
• Alexirhoe daughter of the river god Grenikos[19]
• Archidemia [20]
• Arethusa [21][22][23]
• Castalia or Cassotis [24]
• Comaetho daughter or wife of the river god Cydnus[25]
• Cyane
• Dirce transformed into a spring (presumably into a nymph personifying it) after her death
• Gargaphie or Plataia one of the daughters of the river god Asopus
• Hagno one of the nurses of infant Zeus
• Ismene [26]
• Langia [27]
• Magea [20]
• Milichie [20]
• Metope wife of Asopus
• Pegasis daughter of the river god Grenikos[28]
• Peirene
• Pharmaceia nymph of a poisonous spring in Attika and Orithyia's playmate[29][30]
• Psanis a local spring in Arcadia
• Salmacis
• Strophia a spring on Mount Cithaeron near Thebes; barely personified[31]
• Telphousa
• Temenitis [20]

References

  1. ↑ "Theoi Project - List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs". Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  2. ↑ Strabo, Geography 8.3.19
  3. ↑ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 5.5.11
  4. ↑ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.24.4
  5. ↑ Callimachus, Hymn IV to Delos, 252
  6. ↑ Pindar, Odes Olympian, 12
  7. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 5. 1
  8. ↑ Callimachus, Aitia Fragment 66
  9. ↑ Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4. 374 ff
  10. ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511
  11. ↑ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 6.22.7
  12. ↑ Homer, Odyssey 13.96 ff
  13. ↑ Strabo, Geography 9.2.25; 10.3.17
  14. ↑ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 9.34.4
  15. ↑ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 1225 ff.
  16. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  17. ↑ Theocritus, Idylls, 13. 44
  18. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.5.1
  19. ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 762 ff
  20. 1 2 3 4 Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3. 89, in a list of Sicilian springs, of which only Arethousa and Cyane are known to have been personified
  21. ↑ Strabo, Geography 6. 2. 4
  22. ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 407 & 487 ff
  23. ↑ Virgil, Aeneid 3. 694 ff
  24. ↑ Pausanias, Guide to Greece 10.8.9; 10.24.7
  25. ↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 2. 143-144 & 40 141-143
  26. ↑ Bibliotheca 2.6
  27. ↑ Statius, Thebaid 4.716
  28. ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 3.300
  29. ↑ Plato, Phaedrus 229
  30. ↑ "Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 238". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  31. ↑ Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75 ff

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