Oread
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Latin: Oreas/Oread-, from ὄρος, 'mountain'; French: Oréade) or Orestiad (/ɔːˈrɛstiˌæd, -iəd/; Ὀρεστιάδες, Orestiádes) is a mountain nymph. Oreads differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idaeae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelion, etc. Myths associated the Oreads with Artemis
, since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mountains and rocky precipices.
The generic term "oread" itself appears to be
Hellenistic (first attested in the Epitaph of Adonis (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος) of Bion of Smyrna, fl. c. 100 BCE) .[1]
List of Oreads
The number of Oreads includes but is not limited to:
| Name | Location | Relations and Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Britomartis | Mount Dicte, Crete | daughter of Carme and Zeus[2] |
| Chelone | Mount Khelydorea, Arcadia | changed by Hermes into a tortoise[3] |
| Claea | Mount Calathion, Messenia | [4] |
| Cyllene | Mount Cyllene, Arcadia | [5] |
| Daphnis | Mount Parnassos | [6] |
| Echo | Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia | loved Narcissus[7] and loved by Pan[8] |
| Eidothea | Malis
|
mother of Cerambus by Eusiros[9] |
| The Idaeae | Mount Ida, Crete | [10] |
| • Adrasteia | ||
| • Cynosura | ||
Helike
|
||
| • Ida | ||
| Nomia | Mount Nomia, Arcadia | a friend of Callisto[11] |
| Oenone | Mount Ida, Troad | daughter of the river-god Cebren and first wife of Paris[12] |
| Othreis | Mount Othrys, Malis | mother of Meliteus by Zeus and Phager by Apollo[13] |
| Phigalia | Phigalia, Arcadia | eponym of the town of Phigalia |
| Pitys | loved by Pan[14] | |
| Sinoe | Mount Sinoe, Arcadia | nurse of Pan[15] |
| Sose | loved by Hermes | |
| The Sphragitides or Cithaeronides | Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia | [16] |
Honours
- Oread Institute, a former women's college in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Mount Oread in Lawrence, Kansas, named after the institute by settlers from Worcester
- Oread Lake in Antarctica
References
- ^ Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v. text at Perseus project
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.76.3
- 1.509
- ^ Pausanias, 3.26.11
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Pausanias, 10.5.5
- ^ Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 970
- ^ . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 884.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 22; Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.353–356
- De Astronomica2.2
- ^ Pausanias, 8.38.0
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.6
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 13
- ^ Propertius, Elegies 1.18
- ^ Pausanias, 8.30.2
- ^ Plutarch, Life of Aristides 11. 3; Pausanias, 9.3.9
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae in The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- .
- Propertius, Elegies Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 18. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. Online version at Harvard University Press.