In Greek mythology, potameides (Ancient Greek: ποταμηίδες) is a name for nymphs of rivers.1 It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes,2 who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:3
All the watery meadows shook at her footstep, and the marsh-dwelling river nymphs [ποταμηίδες] wailed, those who dance around that marshy meadow of Amarantian Phasis.
A scholium on the Iliad (a marginal note in a manuscript of the work), from the A family of scholia,4 states that epipotamídes (ἐπιποταμίδες) is the name given to nymphs of rivers.5
Notes
Notes
- Larson, p. 8.
- Larson, p. 282 n. 19.
- Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1218–1220 (pp. 312, 313).
- Erbse, p. 3.
- Scholia A on Homer's Iliad, 20.8 (Dindorf, p. 193).
References
References
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-99630-4. Harvard University Press.
- Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. Internet Archive. Perseus Digital Library.
- Erbse, Hartmut, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. ISBN 9783110069112. doi:10.1515/9783110850222.
- Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-512294-7.