In
Greek mythology
A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...
, Myrtoessa (
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...
: Μυρτωέσσης) was an
Arcadian nymph
A nymph ( grc, νύμφη, nýmphē, el, script=Latn, nímfi, label=Modern Greek; , ) in ancient Greek folklore is a minor female nature deity. Different from Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature, are ty ...
, specifically a
Crinaeae
In Greek mythology, the Crinaeae (; grc, Κρηναῖαι, from Greek " κρήνη") were a type of Naiad nymphs associated with fountains or wells.
The number of Crinaeae includes but is not limited to:
*Aganippe
*Appias
* Myrtoessa
* The S ...
, who together with other nymphs,
Neda,
Anthracia,
Hagno
''Psilocorsis'' is a genus of moths of the family Depressariidae.
Species
* ''Psilocorsis amydra'' Hodges, 1961
* ''Psilocorsis arguta'' Hodges, 1961
* ''Psilocorsis argyropasta'' Walsingham, 1912
* ''Psilocorsis carpocapsella'' (Walker, 1864)
* ...
and
Anchirhoe, were nurses of the god
Zeus
Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label=Genitive case, genitive Aeolic Greek, Boeotian Aeolic and Doric Greek#Laconian, Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label=Genitive case, genitive el, Δίας, ''D ...
. She was depicted to carry water-pots with what is meant to be water coming down from her.
Notes
References
*
Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
*Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ...
, ''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
Arcadian mythology
Nymphs