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In Greek mythology, the Limnads or (Λιμνάδες) or Leimenids (Λειμενίδες) were a type of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods. The number of Limnads includes but is not limited to:〔(Theoi Project – List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs )〕 # The Astakides (αι Ἀστακίδες), nymphs of the Lake Astakos in Bithynia〔Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 15.370 ff〕 # Bolbe (Βόλβη), nymph of a Thessalian lake of the same name, also classed as an Oceanid due to her parentage (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys) #Limnaee (Λιμναία), daughter of the Indian river god Ganges, one of the reputed mothers of Athis〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 5.47 ff〕 # Pallas (Παλλάς, genitive Παλλάδος)〔''Bibliotheca'' 3. 144〕 # Tritonis (Τριτονίς), nymph of the homonymous salt-water lake in Libya, mother of Nasamon and Caphaurus (or Cephalion) by Amphithemis,〔Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1493 ff〕〔Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 14〕 and, according to an archaic version of the myth, also of Athena by Poseidon.〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 1. 14. 6〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Limnad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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