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Type of nymph in Greek mythology
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In
Greek mythology , an Oread (;
Ancient Greek : Ὀρειάς ,
romanized : Oreiás , stem Ὀρειάδ- , Oreiád- ,
Latin : Oreas /Oread- , from ὄρος , 'mountain';
French : Oréade ) or Orestiad (; Ὀρεστιάδες , Orestiádes ) is a mountain
nymph . Oreads differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idaeae were from
Mount Ida , Peliades from
Mount Pelion , etc. Myths associated the Oreads with
Artemis , since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mountains and rocky precipices.
The generic term "oread" itself appears to be
Hellenistic (first attested in the Epitaph of Adonis (
Greek : Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος ) of
Bion of Smyrna ,
fl.
c. 100 BCE ) .
[1]
List of Oreads
The number of Oreads includes but is not limited to:
List of Oreads
Name
Location
Relations and Notes
Britomartis
Mount Dicte ,
Crete
daughter of
Carme and
Zeus
[2]
Chelone
Mount Khelydorea,
Arcadia
changed by
Hermes into a tortoise
[3]
Claea
Mount Calathion,
Messenia
[4]
Cyllene
Mount Cyllene , Arcadia
[5]
Daphnis
Mount Parnassos
[6]
Echo
Mount Cithaeron ,
Boeotia
loved
Narcissus
[7] and loved by
Pan
[8]
Eidothea
Mount Othrys ,
Malis
mother of
Cerambus by
Eusiros
[9]
The Idaeae
Mount Ida ,
Crete
[10]
• Adrasteia
•
Cynosura
•
Helike
•
Ida
Nomia
Mount Nomia, Arcadia
a friend of
Callisto
[11]
Oenone
Mount Ida ,
Troad
daughter of the river-god
Cebren and first wife of
Paris
[12]
Othreis
Mount Othrys ,
Malis
mother of
Meliteus by Zeus and
Phager by
Apollo
[13]
Phigalia
Phigalia , Arcadia
eponym of the town of Phigalia
Pitys
loved by Pan
[14]
Sinoe
Mount Sinoe, Arcadia
nurse of Pan
[15]
Sose
loved by Hermes
The Sphragitides or Cithaeronides
Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia
[16]
Honours
References
^ Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v.
text at Perseus project
^
Diodorus Siculus ,
5.76.3
^
Servius ad
Virgil ,
Aeneid 1.509
^
Pausanias ,
3.26.11
^
Apollodorus , 3.8.1
^ Pausanias,
10.5.5
^
Aristophanes , Thesmophoriazusae 970
^
"Echo" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 884.
^
Antoninus Liberalis ,
22 ;
Ovid ,
Metamorphoses 7.353–356
^ Apollodorus, 1.4.5;
Hyginus ,
De Astronomica 2.2
^ Pausanias, 8.38.0
^ Apollodorus, 3.12.6
^ Antoninus Liberalis,
13
^
Propertius , Elegies 1.18
^ Pausanias,
8.30.2
^
Plutarch , Life of Aristides 11. 3; Pausanias,
9.3.9
Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Aristophanes ,
Thesmophoriazusae in The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
Diodorus Siculus ,
The Library of History translated by
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Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Robert Scott ,
A Greek-English Lexicon , revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie,
Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
Maurus Servius Honoratus , In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
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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 .
Plutarch . Lives, Volume II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
Loeb Classical Library No. 47. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press , 1914.
ISBN
978-0-674-99053-1 .
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Propertius , Elegies Edited and translated by G. P. Goold.
Loeb Classical Library 18. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Online version at Harvard University Press .