Aganippe (naiad)

Aganippe by Philip Galle (Holland, Haarlem, 1537-1612)

Aganippe (/ˈæɡʌnɪpiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀγανίππη) was the name of both a spring and the Naiad (a Crinaea) associated with it. The spring is in Boeotia, near Thespiae, at the base of Mount Helicon,[1] and was associated with the Muses who were sometimes called Aganippides. Drinking from it was considered to be a source of poetic inspiration. The nymph is called a daughter of the river-god Permessus (called Termessus by Pausanias).[2] Ovid associates Aganippe with Hippocrene.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 4.12.1.
  2. ↑ Smith, "Aganippe" 1.; Pausanias. Description of Greece, 9.29.5; Virgil. Eclogues 10.12
  3. ↑ Ovid, Fasti 5.7.

Sources

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aganippe 1". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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