In Greek mythology, Aegina was a daughter of the river god Asopus and the nymph Metope.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

In Greek mythology, Callisto or Kallisto ( ) was a nymph of Artemis.

* Himalia ( mythology ), a nymph from Cyprus in Greek mythology

A nymph (, nymphē ) in Greek mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform.

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

Chiron's wedding-gift to Peleus when he married the nymph Thetis in classical Greek mythology, was an ashen spear as the nature of ashwood with its straight grain made it an ideal choice of wood for a spear.

In Greek mythology, Zeus ( the king of the gods ) lusts after a young woman named Callisto, a nymph of Artemis.

In Greek mythology, Lacedaemon was a son of Zeus by the nymph Taygete.

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 ").

Taxonomically the Dorididae is a family of several genera, the dorids named after the mythological ancient Greek sea nymph Doris.

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

Castalia (), in Greek mythology, was a nymph whom Apollo transformed into a fountain at Delphi, at the base of Mount Parnassos, or at Mount Helicon.

It is named after Castalia, a nymph in Greek mythology.

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.

* Theoi. com: Io: naiad nymph of Argolis and Egypt Assembles the essential references in Greek and Latin literature, in translation.

It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology.

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.

The Sicilian Greek poet Theocritus wrote two poems circa 275 BC concerning Polyphemus ' desire for Galatea, a sea nymph.

The Partheniae arrived in Apulia, and founded the city, naming it Taras after the son of the Greek sea god, Poseidon, and of a local nymph, Satyrion.

In Greek mythology the nymph Ptelea ( Πτελέα, Elm ) was one of the eight Hamadryads, nymphs of the forest and daughters of Oxylos and Hamadryas.

* Callisto ( mythology ), a nymph

In mythology, the nymph Larissa was a daughter of the primordial man Pelasgus.

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.

Other names, like Adrasteia, Ide, the nymph of Mount Ida, or Adamanthea, which appear in mythology handbooks, are simply duplicates of Amalthea.

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.

In Greek mythology, Leucothea ( ( Λευκοθέα ), " white goddess ") was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph.

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

When Poseidon finds out that Odysseus has escaped, he wrecks the raft but, helped by a veil given by the sea nymph Ino, Odysseus swims ashore on Scherie, the island of the Phaeacians.

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.

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.

At the marriage of Zeus and Hera, a nymph named Chelone was disrespectful or refused to attend.

Although perhaps made explicit in the Prometheia, later authors such as Hyginus, the Bibliotheca, and Quintus of Smyrna would confirm that Prometheus warned Zeus not to marry the sea nymph Thetis.

He was the father of Pelops, Niobe and Broteas, and was a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto.

Sometimes the young and beautiful nymph Echo would distract and amuse Zeus ' wife, Hera, with long and entertaining stories while Zeus took advantage of the moment to ravish the other mountain nymphs.

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.

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).

# Glauce, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of Zeus.

** Idaea, a Cretan nymph, mother of Cres by Zeus

When he came to maturity, Zeus rewarded his nymph nurses with the horn of Amaltheia, the cornucopia or horn of plenty that is always full of food and drink.

In Greek mythology, Plouto or Pluto was a nymph and the mother of Tantalus by Zeus.

* Io was a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was raped by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection.

The use of this wreath comes from the Greek myth involving Apollo, Zeus ’ son and the god of life and light, who fell in love with the nymph Daphne.

In Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, the Titan finally warns Zeus not to lie with the sea nymph Thetis, for she is fated to give birth to a son greater than the father.

Though the name Aegina betokens a goat-nymph, such as was Cretan Amalthea, she was given a mainland identity as the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope ; of their twelve or twenty daughters, many were ravished by Apollo or Zeus.

* In Greek mythology, Aetna ( nymph ) aka Aitne, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus.