Napaeae

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Greek deities series
Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Aquatic deities Chthonic deities Mycenaean deities Personified concepts Other deities
Nymphs
Alseid Auloniad Aurai Crinaeae Dryads Eleionomae Hamadryads Hesperides Lampads Leuce Limnades Meliae Melinoe Minthe Naiads Napaeae Nephele Nereids Oceanids Oreads Pegaeae Pegasides Pleiades Potamides

In Greek mythology, the Napaeae /nəˈpiː.iː/ (Ancient Greek: ναπαῖαι, from νάπη; English translation: "a wooded dell") were a type of nymph that lived in wooded valleys, glens or grottoes.^[1] Statius invoked them in his Thebaid, when the naiad Ismenis addresses her mortal son Krenaios:

“I was held a greater goddess and the queen of Nymphae. Where alas! is that late crowd of courtiers round thy mother’s halls, where are the Napaeae that prayed to serve thee?” ^[2]

Notes

↑ Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities 1898, s.v. "Napaeae".
↑ Statius, Thebaid 9.385; see also Thebaid 4.259.

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