Pegaeae

In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (/pəˈdʒiːi/; Πηγαῖαι) were a type of naiad that lived in springs. They were often considered great aunts of the river gods (Potamoi), thus establishing a mythological relationship between a river itself and its springs.

List of Pegaeae

The number of Pegaeae included but was not limited to:^[1]

• Albunea (Roman mythology)
• Alexirhoe, daughter of the river god Grenikos^[2][3]
• The Anigrides (daughters of the river god Anigros, were believed to cure skin diseases)^[4][5][6]
• Archidemia^[7]
• Arethusa^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Castalia, or Cassotis^[12][13]
• Comaetho, daughter or wife of the river god Cydnus^[14]
• The Corycian Nymphs (Coryceia, Cleodora, Daphnis, Melaina)
• Cyane
• The Cyrtonian nymphs (local springs in the town of Cyrtones, Boeotia)^[15][16]
• The Deliades (daughters of Inopus, god of the river Inopus on the island of Delos)^[17][18]
• Dirce, transformed into a spring (presumably into a nymph personifying it) after her death
• Gargaphie, or Plataia (one of the daughters of the river god Asopus)^[19]
• Hagno, one of the nurses of infant Zeus
• The Himerian Naiads^[20][21]
• The Inachides (daughters of the river god Inachus, namely Io, Amymone,^[22] Philodice,^[23] Messeis and Hyperia)^[24][25][26]
• The Ionides (Calliphaea, Iasis, Pegaea and Synallaxis)^[27]
• Ismene^[28][29]
• The Ithacian nymphs (dwelled in sacred caves on Ithaca)^[30]
• Langia^[31]
• The Leibethrides (individual names include Libethrias and Petra)^[32][33]
• Magea^[7]
• Milichie^[7]
• Metope (wife of Asopus)
• The Mysian Naiads (Euneica, Malis and Nycheia^[34]), who dwelled in the spring of Pegae near the lake Askanios in Bithynia and were responsible for the kidnapping of Hylas^[35][36]
• The Ortygian nymphs (local springs of Syracuse, Sicily)^[37][38]
• Pegasis, daughter of the river god Grenikos^[39]
• Peirene
• Pharmaceia, nymph of a poisonous spring in Attika and Orithyia's playmate^[40][41]
• Psanis (a local spring in Arcadia)
• The Rhyndacides (daughters of the river god Rhyndacus)^[42]
• Salmacis
• The Spercheides (daughters of the river god Spercheus)
• Strophia (a spring on Mount Cithaeron near Thebes; barely personified)^[43][44]
• Telphousa
• Temenitis^[7]

References

Sources

• Theoi Project - Naiades