Limnade
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In Greek mythology, the Limnades / Leimenides (Λιμνάδες / Λειμενίδες) were a type of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.
The number of Limnades includes but is not limited to[1]:
- The Astakides (αι Ἀστακίδες), nymphs of the Lake Astakos in Bithynia[2]
- Bolbe (Βόλβη), nymph of a Thessalian lake of the same name, also classed as an Oceanid due to her parentage (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)
- Limnaee (Λιμναία), daughter of the Indian river god Ganges, one of the reputed mothers of Attis[3]
- Pallas (Παλλάς, genitive Παλλάδος)[4]
- Tritonis (Τριτονίς), nymph of the homonymous salt-water lake in Libya, mother of Nasamon and Caphaurus (or Cephalion) by Amphithemis,[5][6] and, according to an archaic version of the myth, also of Athena by Poseidon.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Theoi Project - List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 15.370 ff
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.47 ff
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 144
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1493 ff
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 14. 6
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