Napaien
Napaien or Napaiai , in older German specialist literature also Napaées ( Greek Ναπαῖαι from νάπη = valley, Latin Napaeae ) are nymphs who live in valleys in Greek mythology . They are counted among the mountain nymphs ( oreads ). The Auloniads are related to them .
description
In the main work of the French archaeologist Antoine Banier with the title La mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire (3 vols., Paris 1738–1740), In the eighth chapter Of the Nymphs, the Dryads, Hamadryads, Napaeans, Oreads, etc. the Napaien described as follows with reference to Virgil :
"... the names of the Napaeans were borne by those who opened the bushes; ..."
The German poet and philosopher Karl Wilhelm Ramler described the Napaien in his 1790 work Concise Mythology or Doctrine of the Fabulous Gods and Demigods and Heroes of Antiquity as follows:
“The best known among the nymphs are the Naiads, Oreads, Napaeans, Hamadreads. 1. Naiads, ... 2. Oreads, ... 3. Napaea, nymphs of the valleys and at the same time of flowers, herbs and shrubs. These, too, are sometimes confused with the naiads, because the springs flow into the valleys. They rarely occur with the poets. "
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literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Napaiai . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 9 ( digitized version ).
- Leo Bloch : Nymphs . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 519 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Dryads and Oreads on theoi.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The eighth chapter. Of the nymphs, dryads, hamadryads, napaea, oreads, and the like. s. w. In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Karl Wilhelm Ramler: “CW Ramler's” concise mythology or doctrine of the fabulous gods, demigods and heroes of antiquity. With Rudolph Sammer, 1840 ( online ).