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- Dryads and Hamadryads – Mythopedia
Orpheus Charming the Nymphs, Dryads, and Animals by Charles Joseph Natoire (1757) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain At first, Dryads and Hamadryads were distinguished not only from other tree nymphs (such as Meliae, the nymphs of ash trees) but also from one another While Dryads, like most other tree nymphs, simply lived in forests
- Nymphs – Mythopedia
The nymphs were minor divinities who took the form of beautiful young women They represented diverse aspects of nature, including water, mountains, trees, and even specific locales They were also frequently divided into subgroups (such as Dryads, Naiads, and Nereids) according to the type of environment they inhabited
- Oreads - Mythopedia
However, “Oread” was a very loose classification within the Greek taxonomy of nymphs It could include any number of subcategories, especially other land nymphs, such as tree nymphs (Dryads, Hamadryads) and grove nymphs (Alseids) The Oreads sometimes even overlapped with the spring or water nymphs, who usually comprised a separate category
- Naiads - Mythopedia
Etymology The term “Naiad” (Greek Ναϊάς, translit Naïás; pl “Naiads,” Greek Ναϊάδες, translit
- Dionysus – Mythopedia
Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, revelry, inspiration, and fertility His festivals famously featured intoxication and religious ecstasy
- Nereids - Mythopedia
The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis
- Metamorphoses: Book 3 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
For him the Naiads and the Dryads mourn, Whom the sad Echo answers in her turn; And now the sister-nymphs prepare his urn: When, looking for his corps, they only found A rising stalk, with yellow blossoms crown’d The Story of Pentheus This sad event gave blind Tiresias fame, Through Greece establish’d in a prophet’s name
- Metamorphoses: Book 11 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Naids and Dryads with dishevel’d hair Promiscuous weep, and scarfs of sable wear; Nor cou’d the river-Gods conceal their moan, But with new floods of tears augment their own His mangled limbs lay scatter’d all around, His head, and harp a better fortune found; In Hebrus’ streams they gently roul’d along, And sooth’d the waters with
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