Potameides

Today, we enter the fascinating world of Potameides. Throughout history, Potameides has aroused the interest and curiosity of countless people, whether due to its impact on society, its significance in the cultural sphere or its relevance in different aspects of daily life. Through this article, we aim to explore and analyze in depth all aspects related to Potameides, from its origins to its possible implications in the future. We will delve into its many facets, unraveling its importance and value in the current context, with the aim of providing our readers with a complete and enriching vision of this exciting topic.

For the sea snail genus, see Potamides (gastropod).

In Greek mythology, potameides (Ancient Greek: ποταμηίδες) is a name for nymphs of rivers.[1] It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes,[2] who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:[3]

All the watery meadows shook at her footstep, and the marsh-dwelling river nymphs wailed, those who dance around that marshy meadow of Amarantian Phasis.

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia)[4] states that epipotamídes (ἐπιποταμίδες) is the name given to nymphs of rivers.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Larson, p. 8.
  2. ^ Larson, p. 282 n. 19.
  3. ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1218–1220 (pp. 312, 313).
  4. ^ Erbse, p. 3.
  5. ^ Scholia A on Homer's Iliad, 20.8 (Dindorf, p. 193).

References

  • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-99630-4. Harvard University Press.
  • Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. Internet Archive. Perseus Digital Library.
  • Erbse, Hartmut, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. ISBN 9783110069112. doi:10.1515/9783110850222.
  • Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-512294-7.