Alseid
| Greek deities series |
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| Nymphs |
In
glens and groves. Of the Classical writers, the first and perhaps only poet to reference alseids is Homer
. Rather than alseid he used the spelling alsea. The three uses of alsea by Homer are as follows:
"The nymphs who live in the lovely groves (ἄλσεα, álsea), and the springs of rivers (πηγαὶ ποταμῶν, pēgaì potamôn) and the grassy meadows (πίσεα ποιήεντα, písea poiḗenta)."[1]
"They [nymphs] come from springs (krênai), they come from groves (alsea), they come from the sacred rivers (ποταμοί, potamoí) flowing seawards."[2]
"The nymphs [of Mount Ida] who haunt the pleasant woods (alsea), or of those who inhabit this lovely mountain (ὄρος, óros) and the springs of rivers (pegai potamon) and grassy meads (pisea)."[3]
Notes
References
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Homer, .
- The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.