The obverse depicted the nymph of the local spring, Larissa, for whom the town was named ; probably the choice was inspired by the famous coins of Kimon depicting the Syracusan nymph Arethusa.

Another mythical personage of the name of Persephione is called a daughter of Minyas and the mother of Chloris, a nymph of spring, flower and new growth.

Io's father is generally given as Inachus, a river god credited with inaugurating the worship of Hera in the countryside around Argos, thus establishing her as an autochthonous spirit of the Argolid and thus by her nature the nymph of a spring, a Naiad.

Aside from the Inachians of whom he was simply the back-formed eponym, his other children include Mycene, the spirit of Mycenae, the spring nymph Amymone, Messeis, Hyperia, and possibly Teledice.

Arethusa, the nymph of a spring, could make her way through subterranean flows from the Peloponnesus, to surface on the island of Sicily.

# Dirce, transformed into a spring ( presumably into a nymph personifying it ) after her death

# Pharmaceia, nymph of a poisonous spring in Attika and Orithyia's playmate

Other coins depict Larissa seated, holding a hydria and with a spring nearby, confirming her status as a nymph.

Such a sacred spring had its native nymph, who might be honored in a grotto-like nymphaeum, where the watery element was never far to seek.

In a slightly different version, Cyane was the Naiad ( i. e. the fresh-water nymph ) of a spring in the Sicilian town of Syracuse.

The pool was part of a shrine dedicated to the water nymph Juturna, and the name Lacus Iuturnae is also used for the spring and the shrine, both next to the pool.

Daphne was a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, who had scorned Apollo.

This Aeolus was son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus, Xuthus and, in some sources, of Amphictyon ( who is otherwise a brother of Hellen ).

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions ; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son Euxanthius.

There, on the island of Pharos, Menelaus encountered the old sea-god Proteus, who told him that Odysseus was a captive of the nymph Calypso.

They were related with the god of rivers and springs ; Poseidon and especially with Artemis, the Mistress of the Animals who was the first nymph.

In these cults Poseidon appears usually as a horse, which represents the river spirit of the underworld as it usually happens in northern-European folklore. The precursor goddesses of Demeter and Persephone are closely related with the springs and the animals, and especially with Poseidon and Artemis who was the first nymph.

The " Mistress of the animals ", later called Artemis, who was the first nymph, may be identified as the Minoan Britomartis, and has similar functions with the Sumerian Ninhursag.

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

Faunus was known as the father or husband or brother of Fauna, and of Latinus by the nymph Marica ( who was also sometimes Faunus ' mother ).

In Greek mythology, Ekho (, Ēkhō, " echo ", from ἦχος ( ēchos ), " sound ") was an Oread ( a mountain nymph ) who loved her own voice.

Echo was a beautiful and musical nymph who could sing and play many instruments.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

Io ( ) was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection.

The satellite is named after the nymph Amalthea from Greek mythology who nursed the infant Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ) with goat's milk.

Amalthea is sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion (" Goat Mountain "), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage ( the daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olenos, or — according to Lactantius — Melisseus ), who brought him up on the milk of her goat.

# He was raised by a nymph named Adamanthea, who fed him goat milk.

In Greek mythology, Nephele (, from νέφος nephos " cloud "; Latinized to Nubes ) was a cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.

* Arethusa ( mythology ), a nereid nymph who became a fountain

In Greek mythology, Adrasteia ( Greek: Ἀδράστεια ( Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια ), " inescapable "; also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, Adastreia ) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant Zeus, in secret in the Dictaean cave, to protect him from his father Cronus ( Krónos ).

Adrasteia and her sister Ida, the nymph of Mount Ida, who also cared for the infant Zeus, were perhaps the daughters of Melisseus.

Juno then took the opportunity to avenge her wounded pride and transformed the nymph into a bear.

Diana made up a triad with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife ; and Virbius, the woodland god.

According to the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs by leading her away and flattering her.

Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship than lose your entire crew " she warns, and tells Odysseus to bid Scylla's mother, the river nymph Crataeis, to prevent her from pouncing more than once.

In classical mythology, Syrinx ( Greek Συριγξ ) was a nymph and a follower of Artemis, known for her chastity.

The river god Cephisus had once encircled Liriope with the windings of his streams, trapping her, and seduced the nymph.

The nymph asked the seer if her son would live to see the old age of senescence, to which Teiresias replied " if he does not know himself.

According to myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, daughter of Asopus and river nymph Metope, and abducted her.

Later in the war, after Philoctetes mortally wounds Paris, Helen makes her way to Mount Ida where she begs Paris's first wife, the nymph Oenone, to heal him.

This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid: Arethusa, a beautiful nymph, once while bathing in the river Alfeios in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the river god ; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia.

One day he catches sight of the nymph Hesperia, daughter of the river Cebren, falls in love, and pursues her.

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Pindar's 9th Pythian ode, Cyrene ( or Kyrene, ) (" sovereign queen ") was the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths, although some myths state that her father was actually the river-god Peneus and she was a nymph rather than mortal.

Other stories say that Cyrene was not wrestling with a lion but instead tending her sheep along the marsh-meadow of the river Pineios, and that Apollo later transformed her into a nymph to grant her a longer life.