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Naiads (Greek deities)


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    • found: Work cat.: Symphonic impressions, 2008?(includes: Naiades, op. 55, no. 4 / Louis Vierne)
    • found: Debussy, C. Songs of Debussy, 20--?(includes: 3 Chansons de Bilitis. No 3, Le tombeau des naïades)
    • found: Bax, A. Sonata for flute and harp, ℗1994(includes: Naiades / William Alwyn)
    • found: Dalrymple, J.S. Lurline, or, The revolt of the Naiades : a romantic opera, in three acts, 1835?
    • found: The Oxford classical dictionary, 1996(Naiads, see Nymphs; nymphs: A varied category of female divinities anthropomorphically perceived as young women. They are often named after their respective elements: Naiads and Hydriads, water-nymphs, often daughters of the river-god)
    • found: Seyffert, O. Dictionary of classical antiquities, 1956(Naiads. The Nymphs of rivers and springs)
    • found: Theoi Project website, June 11, 2019(Naiads (Naiades); nymphs of rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs. They were minor goddesses who attended the assemblies of the gods on Mount Olympo; The Naiad nymphs were sometimes classified by domain: (1) Pegaiai (Pegaeae) were the nymphs of springs; (2) Krenaiai (Crenaeae) were naiads of fountains; (3) Potameides presided over rivers and streams; (4) Limnades and Limnatides inhabited lakes; and (5) Heleionomai were the nymphs of marshes and wetlands)
    • found: Britannica online, June 11, 2019(Naiad, (from Greek naiein, "to flow"), in Greek mythology, one of the nymphs of flowing water--springs, rivers, fountains, lakes. The Naiads, appropriately in their relation to freshwater, were represented as beautiful, lighthearted, and beneficent. Like the other classes of nymphs, they were extremely long-lived, although not immortal)
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