| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Nymph name "Sabazius" | Phrygian | A Phrygian divinity, commonly described as a son of Rhea or Cybele ; but in later times he was identified with the mystic Dionysus, who hence is sometimes called Dionysus Sabazius. For the same reason Sabazius is called a son of Zeus by Persephone, and is said to have been reared by a nymph Nyssa. |
| Nymph name "Venilia" | Roman | A Roman divinity connected with the winds (venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Jutuma, and Canens. Aeneid x. Metamorphoses by Ovid xiv.) |
| Nymph name "Daphnis" | Greek | A Sicilian hero, to whom the invention of bucolic poetry is ascribed. He is called a son of Hermes by a nymph, or merely the beloved of Hermes. Ovid calls him an Idaean shepherd; but it does not follow from this that Ovid connected him with either the Phrygian or the Cretan Ida, since Ida signifies any woody mountain. Greek |
| Nymph name "Cyane" | Greek | A Sicilian nymph and playmate of Proserpina, who was changed through grief at the loss of Proserpina into a well. Greek |
| Nymph name "Aetna" | Roman | A Sicilian nymph, and according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uråñuś and Gaea, or of Briareus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily. |
| Nymph name "Telphusa" | Greek | A daughter of Ladon, a nymph from whom the town of Telphusa in Arcadia derived its name. Greek |
| Nymph name "Hamadryas" | Greek | A daughter of Oreios who was the mother of eight Hamadryad nymphs by her brother Oxylus |
| Nymph name "Ceroessa" | Greek | A daughter of Zeus by Io, and born on the spot where Byzantium was afterwards built. She was brought up by a nymph of the place, and afterwards became the mother of Byzas. Greek |
| King name "Upius" | Greek | A king of Bithynia whose son, Bormus, a youth of extraordinary beauty, was abducted by nymphs. Greek |
| King name "Latinus" | Greek | A king of Latium, is described in the common tradition as a son of Faunus and the nymph Marica, as a brother of Lavinius, and the husband of Amata, by whom he became the father of Lavinia, whom he gave in marriage to Aeneas. Greek |
| Nymph name "Picus" | Greek | A man turned into a woodpecker by Circe for scorning her love. His wife was Canens, a nymph, who killed herself after he was transformed. They had one son, Faunus. Metamorphoses XIV by Ovid Greek / Roman |
| Nymph name "Eurydice" | Greek | A mountain valley nymph with a sad love story[ aren't they all?] |
| Nymph name "Saon" | Greek | A mythical lawgiver of Samothrace, is said to have been a son of Zeus by a nymph, or of Hermes by Rhene. Greek |
| Nymph name "Philammon" | Greek | A mythical poet and musician of the ante-Homeric period, was said to have been the son of Apollo and the nymph Chione, or Philonis, or Leuconoe. Greek |
| God name "Mystis" | Greek | A nurse of the god Dionysus and the nymph who personified initiation into the mysteries of the god while her son Corymbus represented the sacred ivy, with which the initiates were dressed. Greek |
| Nymph name "Erato" | Greek | A nymph and the wife of Ares, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan. Greek |
| Nymph name "Aix" | Greek | A nymph and the wife of Pan. She was seduced by Zeus and bore him Aigipan. Aix is also mentioned as the nurse of the infant Zeus and may also identified with the Gorgon Aix. |
| Nymph name "Dicte" | Greece | A nymph from who was beloved and pursued by Minos, but she threw herself into the sea, where she was caught up and saved in the nets of fishermen. Greece |
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