Napaeae

This article is about Greek mythology nymph. For genus of metalmark butterflies, see Napaea (butterfly). For flowering plant genus in the Malvaceae family, see Napaea (plant).

Greek deities series
Primordial deities
Titans and Olympians
Aquatic deities
Chthonic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities
Asclepius, god of medicine Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis Pan, shepherd god
Nymphs
Alseid Auloniad Crinaeae Dryads Eleionomae Hamadryads Hesperides Limnades Meliae	Naiads Napaeae Nereids Oceanids Oreads Pegaeae Pegasides Pleiades Potamides

In Greek mythology, the Napaeae (Ancient Greek: ναπαῖαι, from νάπη; English translation: "a wooded dell") were a type of nymph that lived in wooded valleys, glens or grottoes. Statius invoked them in his Thebaid, when the naiad Ismenis addresses her mortal son Krenaios:

"I was held a greater goddess and the queen of Nymphae. Where alas! is that late crowd of courtiers round thy mother’s halls, where are the Napaeae that prayed to serve thee?"