Eleionomai
Eleionomai ( Greek Ἐλειονόμαι ) are literally "swamp dwellers" (from ἕλειος "swampy" and νομός "place of residence", "region"). In the “Argonautika” of Apollonios of Rhodes , mention is made of swamp-dwelling nymphs in two places . They are also mentioned in a scholion for the Iliad . That was the basis for modern mythographers to place Eleionomai as nymphs of the swamps and marshes on an equal footing with the naiads , nereids and oceanids , which is wrong insofar as the term naiad is specific for nymphs, while Eleionomai are generally swamp inhabitants, too denotes human inhabitants of a swampy area. Eleionomae was given as the Latinized form .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes Argonautika II, 821 and III, 1218
- ↑ Scholion to Iliad XX.8
- ^ RE Bell: Women of classical mythology: a biographical dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1993 ISBN 0-195-07977-9 , p. 316
- ^ R. Chopra: Academic Dictionary Of Mythology. Gyan Books, 2005, ISBN 8-182-05232-7 , p. 198