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Alseid

Nymphs of groves

Nymphs of groves

In Greek mythology, Alseids (; ) were nymphs who inhabited groves.

They are mentioned by Apollonius of Rhodes, who relates that the woman Cleite hangs herself after the death of her husband, Cyzicus, who was killed by the hero Jason. Upon her suicide:

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia) states explicitly that "Alseids" is the name given to nymphs who occupy groves.

Notes

References

  • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. . Harvard University Press.
  • Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. Internet Archive. Perseus Digital Library.
  • Erbse, Hartmut, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. . .
  • Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Malden, Oxford, and Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, 1986. . Internet Archive.
  • Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. .
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. . Internet Archive.

References

  1. Grimal, s.v. Nymphs, p. 313; ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'', s.v. Nymphs, p. 1056.
  2. Larson, p. 281 n. 31.
  3. [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.89.xml 1.1053–1065]. On Jason's killing of Cyzicus, see ''Brill's New Pauly'', [https://referenceworks-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/entries/NPOE/e322170.xml?rskey=rQcGH4&result=2 s.v. Doliones].
  4. [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.89.xml 1.1065–1069].
  5. Erbse, p. 3.
  6. Scholia A on [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', 20.8 (Dindorf, [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecainh02homeuoft/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater p. 193]).
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