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The Nysiads or Nysiades (Νυσιάδες) were the nymphs of Mount Nysa who cared for and taught the infant Dionysus[1][2][3].
Their names include[4]:
- Ambrosia
- Arsinoe
- Bromia or Bromis
- Cisseis
- Coronis
- Erato
- Eriphia
- Nysa[5][6]
- Pedile
- Polymno or Polyhymno
Also mentioned are Callichore and Calyce[7] (after whom two moons of Jupiter, Kallichore and Kalyke, are named).
In later tellings of Dionysus's infancy, the Nysiades appear to be identified with the Hyades[8]. The term might have been used for the Pleiades and the Hyades as Dionysus's tutors altogether.
References
- ^ Homeric Hymn 26 to Dionysus 2 ff
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 2. 3
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 4. 3
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 182
- ^ Also occurs in Terpander, Fragment 9
- ^ In Diodorus Siculus' Library of History, 3. 69, she is called daughter of Aristaeus
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 14. 219 ff
- ^ In Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 4. 3, the identification is explicit: "...the Nymphai of Asian Nysa, whom Zeus in later times placed among the stars and named the Hyades."
External links
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