Naïs (mythology)
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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
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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