Potameides

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Nymphs of rivers

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::summary Nymphs of rivers ::

In Greek mythology, potameides () is a name for nymphs of rivers. It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes, who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia) states that (ἐπιποταμίδες) is the name given to nymphs of rivers.

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. . Harvard University Press.
Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. Internet Archive. Perseus Digital Library.
Erbse, Hartmut, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. . .
Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. .

Larson, p. 8.
Larson, p. 282 n. 19.
[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.313.xml 4.1218–1220 (pp. 312, 313)].
Erbse, p. 3.
Scholia A on [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', 20.8 (Dindorf, [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecainh02homeuoft/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater p. 193]).

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