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 (a marginal note in a manuscript of the work), from the A family of scholia, states that () is the name given to nymphs of rivers.
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References
- 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 - é continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. . .
- Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. .