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Potamides (mythology)
Potamides,〔Falck-Lebahn, Carl (1854); p 296.〕 also called potameides (Greek: Ποταμίδες),〔Smith, William (1849); pp 1216-1217.〕 were a type of water nymphs of Greco-Roman mythology. They were assigned as a class of nymphs of fresh water known as naiads, and as such belonged to a category that presided over rivers and streams.〔Black, Charles (1858); p 396.〕
==Origin and abode==
Potamides were identified by the names associated with the rivers of their origin such as the ''Anigrides'', ''Ismenides'', ''Amnisiades'', the ''Pactolides'' from the Pactolus river, and the ''Acheloides'' from the Achelous river.〔 However they had their individual names〔 and also sometimes could be distinguished by the name of the country in which they inhabited.〔Crabb, George (1833).〕〔Murray, J. (1829); pp 581-582.〕
The rivers were the domains of potamides as well as of the nymphs ''Fluviales''.〔Carr, Thomas Swinburne (1846); pp 127-129.〕 Every creek had its potamide,〔Making of America Project (1851); p 393.〕 who as local divinities, and like all the naiads,〔 were daughters of the gods of rivers,〔Heck, Johann Georg (1852); p 345.〕 also called ''Potamoi'' deities.〔Rose, Herbert J. (1957); p 25.〕 Even the rivers of the marshy regions are described as having their nymphs; hence no exception was made to the waters of Greek underworld ruled by god Hades, as was quoted in Latin: "Nymphae infernae paludis and Avernales", which means "swampy ''Avernales'', the infernal nymphs".〔 And many of these hellish potamides, the ''Avernales'', were believed to be owners of prophetic ability, and to express that gift to their chosen men.〔
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