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.

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.

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.

A nymph in Greek mythology, Adamanthea helped raise the infant Zeus to hide him from his father, Cronus.

According to Pausanias, Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheius became a river, which flowing from Peloponnesus under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa.

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 ).

Pan also loved a nymph named Pitys, who was turned into a pine tree to escape him.

The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Menippe ( mother of Phrastor by Pelasgus ), Daphne and Stilbe.

His mother, Chariclo, a nymph of Athena, begged Athena to undo her curse, but the goddess could not ; instead, she cleaned his ears, giving him the ability to understand birdsong, thus the gift of augury.

However, he was seduced, with the aid of wine, by the daughter of a king, and, in revenge, this nymph either blinded him or turned him to stone.

Hesychius says he was a son of Apollo, while Hyginus consistently calls him a son of Paphos ( presumably the eponym of Paphos ), and a scholiast on Pindar makes him a son of Eurymedon and the nymph Paphia.

The Oceanide Meliboea, the nymph Cyllene, or Deianeira, became by him the mother of Lycaon of Arcadia.

* Alphesiboea, an Indian nymph, who was passionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this circumstance received the name of Tigris.

Roman sources such as Ovid state that Hylas ' father was Hercules and his mother was the nymph Melite, or that his mother was the wife of Theiodamas, whose adulterous affair with Heracles caused the war between him and her husband.

In addition to the endorsement by Jupiter, he is supposed to have had a direct and personal relationship with a number of deities, most famously the nymph Egeria, who according to legend taught him to be a wise legislator.

He realizes that Nimue, a beautiful water nymph, has come to draw him into her cave for an eternal sleep (" Follow Me ").

Wisdom and Justice are on loan to the Academy, whose holdings include a collection of Rush's portrait busts, a life-sized eagle statue attributed to him, and the head of the nymph from Water Nymph and Bittern.

She reveals the previously invisible nymph to him and in return he restores her human form.

Either disgust or fear made the nymph run away from him without looking where she was going.

The nymph, called Janapadi, came to the saint and tried to seduce him in various ways.

However, the nymph Naïla rescues him ; she is in love with him and promises to help him win the hand of Nouredda.

`` Mars and Venus, Bacchus and Ariadne, Jupiter and Io, Byron and the nymph of the owl's nest.

Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons.

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

Castalia was a nymph whom Apollo loved.

In later traditions, this Ajax is called a son of Oileus and the nymph Rhene and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen.

Sons of Hellen and the nymph Orsiis were Dorus, Xuthos, and Aeolus.

In the Aeneid by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas.

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

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

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.

Both the Romanian word for " fairy " Zânǎ and the Leonese word for " water nymph " xana, seem to come from the name of Diana.

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.

* Dryope, a nymph responsible for kidnapping Hylas, which she did in accord with Hera's will.

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.

A connection with Smyrna seems to be alluded to in a legend that his original name was Melesigenes (" born of Meles ", a river which flowed by that city ), with his mother the nymph Kretheis.

The fertilized eggs secrete a tough outer coating, and, as the adult dies, these resting eggs fall to the bottom of the lake or pond to await better conditions, whereupon they hatch into nymph hydras.

The Argo then spoke and said that they should seek purification with Circe, a nymph living on the island of Aeaea.

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

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.

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.

The wife of this ' Minos I ' was said to be Itone ( daughter of Lyctius ) or Crete ( a nymph or daughter of his stepfather Asterion ), and he had a single son named Lycastus, his successor as King of Crete.

A dragonfly in its final ecdysis | moult, undergoing metamorphosis from its nymph ( biology ) | nymph form to an adult.