
Dryads and Hamadryads – Mythopedia
Jan 9, 2023 · Some Dryads and Hamadryads were known as the consorts or mothers of important mythological individuals. Arcas, as we have seen, married either a Dryad or a Hamadryad. Similarly, Danaus, the ancestor of the Greek tribe known as the Danaans, had two Hamadryads—Atlantia and Phoebe—among his many wives.
Nymphs – Mythopedia
Jan 6, 2023 · The nymphs were minor divinities who took the form of beautiful young women. They represented diverse aspects of nature, including water, mountains, trees, and even specific locales. They were also frequently divided into subgroups (such as Dryads, Naiads, and Nereids) according to the type of environment they inhabited.
Oreads - Mythopedia
Jul 26, 2023 · The Oreads were beautiful, youthful mountain nymphs. These female divinities roamed the mountains and woodlands of Greece, accompanying other nature gods and presiding over various aspects of the natural world.
Eurydice - Mythopedia
Feb 9, 2023 · Eurydice was the young woman or nymph who died on the day of her marriage to the musician Orpheus. Orpheus descended to the Underworld to retrieve his bride but ultimately failed in his quest.
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Naiads - Mythopedia
Aug 31, 2023 · Etymology. The term “Naiad” (Greek Ναϊάς, translit. Naïás; pl. “Naiads,” Greek Ναϊάδες, translit.
Pan – Mythopedia
May 20, 2023 · Pan was the infamous god of shepherds and goatherds who hailed from Arcadia. He was part-human and part-goat, and his days in the woods and countryside were spent singing, dancing, hunting, chasing nymphs, and playing his reed pipes.
Metamorphoses: Book 14 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
A Hama-Dryad flourish’d in these days, Her name Pomona, from her woodland race. In garden culture none could so excell, Or form the pliant souls of plants so well; Or to the fruit more gen’rous flavours lend, Or teach the trees with nobler loads to bend.
Metamorphoses: Book 8 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
No longer check’d, the wretch his crime pursu’d, Doubled his strokes, and sacrilege renew’d; When from the groaning trunk a voice was heard, A Dryad I, by Ceres’ love preferr’d, Within the circle of this clasping rind Coeval grew, and now in ruin join’d; But instant vengeance shall thy sin pursue, And death is chear’d with this ...
Iliad: Book 20 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Not one was absent, not a rural power That haunts the verdant gloom, or rosy bower; Each fair-hair’d dryad of the shady wood, Each azure sister of the silver flood; All but old Ocean, hoary sire! who keeps His ancient seat beneath the sacred deeps. On marble thrones, with lucid columns crown’d, (The work of Vulcan,) sat the powers around.