Pegaeae

In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (/pəˈdʒiːiː/; 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.

Greek deities
series
Nymphs

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. 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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