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Potameides

Nymphs of rivers

Nymphs of rivers

In Greek mythology, potameides () is a name for nymphs of rivers. It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes, who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia) states that (ἐπιποταμίδες) is the name given to nymphs of rivers.

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. . .
  • Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. .

References

  1. Larson, p. 8.
  2. Larson, p. 282 n. 19.
  3. [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.313.xml 4.1218–1220 (pp. 312, 313)].
  4. Erbse, p. 3.
  5. 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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