Naïs (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Naïs () is the name of the following figures:

Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.Xenophon, On Hunting 1 Naïs, the mother of King Hypseus of the Lapiths, by the river-god Peneus.Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27b with Pherecydes as the authority In some accounts, the mother of Hypseus was called PhilyraScholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27b with Achesandros as the authority or Creusa.Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.16. Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990; Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.1 In another version of the myth, the latter was called the daughter of Naïs and Peneus instead.Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27c Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.32 Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 22 Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.Athenaeus, 7.47

References

Bibliography Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. Or Banquet Of The Learned Of Athenaeus. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Pseudo-Plutarch, Names of Rivers and Mountains, in Plutarch, The Moralia, translations edited by William Watson Goodwin (1831-1912), from the edition of 1878, a text in the public domain digitized by the Internet Archive and reformatted/lightly corrected by Brady Kiesling. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 42. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1916.