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]
Family
editNemea was one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus[2] and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon.[3] She was the sister of Salamis,[4] Aegina,[5] Corcyra, Thebe,[6] Antiope,[7] Cleone,[8] Harpina,[9] Plataea[10] (Oeroe[11]), and Tanagra.[12]
In some account, Nemea's parentage is attributed to Zeus and Selene.[13][14]
Notes
edit- ^ Pausanias, 2.15.3
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
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.
- 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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