Nymphs of Greek mythology
"Pegasis" redirects here. For the mythical winged horse, see
Pegasus .
Pegasides (Greek : Πηγασίδες , singular: Πηγασίς) were nymphs of Greek mythology connected with wells and springs ,[ 1] Pegasus created by striking the ground with his hooves.[ 2]
Background
According to Greek mythological tradition the winged horse Pegasus was the son of Poseidon , sea and river god of the Greeks,[ 3] Roman Neptune .[ 4] Bellerophon needed the untamed Pegasus to help him defeat the monster Chimera . Hence, while Pegasus was drinking at the spring Pirene in Corinth , Bellerophon caught him. Pegasus, startled, struck a rock with his hoof, creating the spring Hippocrene on Mount Helicon .[ 5]
The Pegasides
The name pegasides (plural form of the Greek feminine adjective pegasis ) literally means "originating from or linked with Pegasus".[ 6] [ 7] [ 3] Muses are likewise called pegasides[ 8] [ 6] [ 3] Nymphs in general, if associated with springs and brooks , may be called pegasides:[ 9] Ovid as a by-name or adjective to the nymph Oenone , daughter of the river-god Cebrenus .[ 10] [ 2]
Pegasis is used by the Greek author Quintus Smyrnaeus as the name of a nymph who had sex with the Trojan prince Emathion and gave birth beside the river Granicus to Atymnius . The latter was eventually killed by Odysseus in the Trojan War .[ 11] [ 12]
Gallery
The spring
Hippocrene , haunt of mythological Pegasides
Notes
^ Gardner, James (1858-60); p. 639.
^ a b Lemprière, John; Anthon, C. (1825); p. 530.
^ a b c Walford, Edward (1897); p. 77, vol 33.
^ Anthon, Charles (1857); p. 989.
^ Adam, Alexander (1816); p. 394.
^ a b Smith, William (1849); p. 165.
^ Ovid , Tristia 3.7.15 : "the stream of Pegasus " in the English translation; Martial , Epigrams 9.58.6 .^ Ovid, Heroides 15.27 : "the daughters of Pegasus " in the English translation; Propertius , Poems 3.1.19 : "Pegasid Muses " in the English translation.
^ Smith, William (1858); p 534.
^ Ovid, Heroides 5.3 : "the fountain-nymph Oenone " in the English translation; Pegasis Oenone
^ Quintus Smyrnaeus , 3.300–302 ^ Parada, Carlos (1997) s.v. "Nymphs: Pegasis ".
References
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Publius Ovidius Naso, Tristia . Arthur Leslie Wheeler. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1939. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Quintus Smyrnaeus , The Fall of Troy Online version at theoi.com Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy . Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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