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Template:Greek myth (nymph)In Greek mythology, Myrtoessa (Ancient Greek: Μυρτώεσσα) was an Arcadian nymph, specifically a Crinaeae, who together with other nymphs, Neda, Anthracia, Hagno and Anchirhoe, were nurses of the god Zeus. She was depicted to carry water-pots with what is meant to be water coming down from her.[1][2]A non marine mollusc called Myrtoessa hyas in the Hydrobiidae(mud snail) family, is named after the nymph.[3]

Notes

  1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.31.4
  2. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 241. ISBN 9780786471119. 
  3. Radea, C.; Parmakelis, A.; Giokas, S. (2016). "Myrtoessa hyas, a new valvatiform genus and a new species of the Hydrobiidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from Greece". ZooKeys (640): 1–18. doi:10.3897/zookeys.640.10674. PMID 28138282. Bibcode2016ZooK..640....1R. 

References

  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.