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]

Notes

1. Pausanias, 2.15.3
2. Pausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6
3. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
4. Pausanias, 1.35.2
5. Pausanias, 2.5.1-2, 2.29.2 & 5.22.6
6. Pausanias, 2.5.2 & 5.22.6
7. Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4
8. Pausanias, 2.15.1
9. Pausanias, 5.22.6
10. Pausanias, 9.1.1-2 & 9.3.1
11. Pausanias, 9.4.4
12. Pausanias, 9.20.1
13. Scholia on Pindar, Nemean Odes p. 425, ed. Böckh
14. Cook, Arthur Bernard (1914). Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. Cambridge University Press. pp. 456 & 732. ISBN 9781001409696.

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.