Nemea (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Nemea (/ˈniːmiə/; Ancient Greek: Νεμέα or Νεμέαν means 'wooded district') was the eponymous nymph of Nemea, a district between Cleonae and Phlius in Argolis.[1] She is sometimes depicted bringing water to Heracles after his fight with the Nemean Lion.[2]
Family
[edit]Nemea was one of the daughters of the river-god Asopus[3][2] and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon.[4] She was the sister of Salamis,[5] Aegina,[6] Corcyra, Thebe,[7] Antiope,[8] Cleone,[9] Harpina,[10] Plataea[11] (Oeroe[12]), and Tanagra.[13] In one of Aeschylus's plays, she is the mother of Archemoros.[14]
In some account, Nemea's parentage is attributed to Zeus and Selene, the goddess of the moon.[15][16][17]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Pausanias, 2.15.3.
- 1 2 Larson, p. 150.
- ↑ Pausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
- ↑ Pausanias, 1.35.2
- ↑ Pausanias, 2.5.1-2, 2.29.2 & 5.22.6
- ↑ Pausanias, 2.5.2 & 5.22.6
- ↑ Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4
- ↑ Pausanias, 2.15.1
- ↑ Pausanias, 5.22.6
- ↑ Pausanias, 9.1.1-2 & 9.3.1
- ↑ Pausanias, 9.4.4
- ↑ Pausanias, 9.20.1
- ↑ Larson, p. 150-1.
- ↑ Scholia on Pindar, Nemean Odes p. 425, ed. Böckh
- ↑ Cook, Arthur Bernard (1914). Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. Cambridge University Press. pp. 456 & 732. ISBN 9781001409696.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Bane, Theresa (28 August 2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-4766-1242-3. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
References
[edit]- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Larson, Jennifer (28 June 2001). Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-802868-0. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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