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In Greek mythology, the Pegaeae (; Πηγαῖαι) were a type of naiad that lived in springs. They were often considered great uncles of the river gods (Potamoi), thus establishing a mythological relationship between a river itself and its springs. The number of Pegaeae included but was not limited to:〔(Theoi Project - List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs )〕 #Albunea (Roman mythology) #Alexirhoe, daughter of the river god Grenikos〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 11. 762 ff〕〔(Theoi Project - Alexirhoe )〕 #The Anigrides (daughters of the river god Anigros, were believed to cure skin diseases)〔Strabo, ''Geography'' 8.3.19〕〔Pausanias, ''Guide to Greece'' 5.5.11〕〔(Theoi Project - Anigrides )〕 # Archidemia〔Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'' 3. 89, in a list of Sicilan springs, of which only Arethousa and Cyane are known to have been personified〕 #Arethusa〔Strabo, ''Geography'' 6. 2. 4〕〔Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 5. 407 & 487 ff〕〔Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 3. 694 ff〕〔(Theoi Project - Arethousa )〕 #Castalia, or Cassotis〔Pausanias, Guide to Greece 10.8.9; 10.24.7〕〔(Theoi Project - Castalia )〕 #Comaetho, daughter or wife of the river god Cydnus〔Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'', 2. 143-144 & 40 141-143〕 #The Corycian Nymphs (Coryceia, Cleodora, Daphnis, Melaina) #Cyane #The Cyrtonian nymphs (local springs in the town of Cyrtones, Boeotia)〔Pausanias, ''Guide to Greece'' 9.24.4〕〔(Theoi Project - Nymphai Kyrtoniai )〕 # The Deliades (daughters of Inopus, god of the river Inopus on the island of Delos)〔Callimachus, Hymn IV to Delos, 252〕〔(Theoi Project - Deliades )〕 #Dirce, transformed into a spring (presumably into a nymph personifying it) after her death #Gargaphie, or Plataia (one of the daughters of the river god Asopus)〔(Theoi Project - Plataia )〕 #Hagno, one of the nurses of infant Zeus # The Himerian Naiads〔Pindar, Odes Olympian, 12〕〔Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 5. 1〕 #The Inachides (daughters of the river god Inachus, namely Io, Amymone,〔(Theoi Project - Amymone )〕 Philodice,〔Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511〕 Messeis and Hyperia)〔Callimachus, ''Aitia'' Fragment 66〕〔Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ''Argonautica'' 4. 374 ff〕〔(Theoi Project - Inachides )〕 #The Ionides (Calliphaea, Iasis, Pegaea and Synallaxis)〔Pausanias, ''Guide to Greece'' 6.22.7〕 #Ismene〔''Bibliotheca'' 2.6〕〔(Theoi Project - Ismene )〕 #The Ithacian nymphs (dwelled in sacred caves on Ithaca)〔Homer, ''Odyssey'' 13.96 ff〕 #Langia〔Statius, ''Thebaid'' 4.716〕 # The Leibethrides (individual names include Libethrias and Petra)〔Strabo, Geography 9.2.25; 10.3.17〕〔Pausanias, ''Guide to Greece'' 9.34.4〕 #Magea〔 #Milichie〔 #Metope (wife of Asopus) #The Mysian Naiads (Euneica, Malis and Nycheia〔Theocritus, ''Idylls'', 13. 44〕), who dwelled in the spring of Pegae near the lake Askanios in Bithynia and were responsible for the kidnapping of Hylas〔Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 1. 1225 ff.〕〔Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 14〕 #The Ortygian nymphs (local springs of Syracuse, Sicily)〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Library of History'' 5.5.1〕〔(Theoi Project - Naiades Ortygiai )〕 #Pegasis, daughter of the river god Grenikos〔Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''Fall of Troy'' 3.300〕 #Peirene #Pharmaceia, nymph of a poisonous spring in Attika and Orithyia's playmate〔Plato, ''Phaedrus'' 229〕〔(Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 238 )〕 #Psanis (a local spring in Arcadia) #The Rhyndacides (daughters of the river god Rhyndacus)〔(Theoi Project - Rhyndacides )〕 #Salmacis #The Spercheides (daughters of the river god Spercheus) #Strophia (a spring on Mount Cithaeron near Thebes; barely personified)〔Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 75 ff〕〔(Theoi Project - Strophia )〕 #Telphousa # Temenitis〔 ==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「Pegaeae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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