Nemea (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nemea (/ˈniːmiə/; Ancient Greek: Νεμέα or Νεμέαν means 'wooded district') was the eponymous nymph of Nemea, a district between Cleonae and Phlius in Argolis.^[1]

Family

Nemea was one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus^[2] and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon.^[3] She was the sister of Salamis,^[4] Aegina,^[5] Corcyra, Thebe,^[6] Antiope,^[7] Cleone,^[8] Harpina,^[9] Plataea^[10] (Oeroe^[11]), and Tanagra.^[12]

In some account, Nemea's parentage is attributed to Zeus and Selene.^[13][14]