Aganippe (naiad)

Aganippe (/æɡəˈnɪpiː/; 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]

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

Notes

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

References

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge, MA. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. 1933. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Aganippe 1

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[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.