Nemea (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nemea (; Ancient Greek: Νεμέα or Νεμέαν means 'wooded district') was the eponymous nymph of Nemea, a district between Cleonae and Phlius in Argolis.Pausanias, 2.15.3. She is sometimes depicted bringing water to Heracles after his fight with the Nemean Lion.

Family Nemea was one of the daughters of the river-god AsopusPausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6 and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon.Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1 She was the sister of Salamis,Pausanias, 1.35.2 Aegina,Pausanias, 2.5.1-2, 2.29.2 & 5.22.6 Corcyra, Thebe,Pausanias, 2.5.2 & 5.22.6 Antiope,Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4 Cleone,Pausanias, 2.15.1 Harpina,Pausanias, 5.22.6 PlataeaPausanias, 9.1.1-2 & 9.3.1 (OeroePausanias, 9.4.4), and Tanagra.Pausanias, 9.20.1 In one of Aeschylus's plays, she is the mother of Archemoros.

In some account, Nemea's parentage is attributed to Zeus and Selene, the goddess of the moon.Scholia on Pindar, Nemean Odes p. 425, ed. Böckh

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Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.