Alseid
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Template:Short description Template:Greek myth (nymph) In Greek mythology, Alseids (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".; Template:Langx) were nymphs who inhabited groves.[1]
They are mentioned by Apollonius of Rhodes,[2] who relates that the woman Cleite hangs herself after the death of her husband, Cyzicus, who was killed by the hero Jason.[3] Upon her suicide:[4] Template:Poem quote
A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia)[5] states explicitly that "Alseids" is the name given to nymphs who occupy groves.[6]
Notes
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- ↑ Grimal, s.v. Nymphs, p. 313; Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Nymphs, p. 1056.
- ↑ Larson, p. 281 n. 31.
- ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.1053–1065. On Jason's killing of Cyzicus, see Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Doliones.
- ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.1065–1069.
- ↑ Erbse, p. 3.
- ↑ Scholia A on Homer's Iliad, 20.8 (Dindorf, p. 193).
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References
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. Template:ISBN. Harvard University Press.
- Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. Internet Archive. Perseus Digital Library.
- Erbse, Hartmut, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. Template:ISBN. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"..
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Malden, Oxford, and Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, 1986. Template:ISBN. Internet Archive.
- Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. Template:ISBN.
- Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. Template:ISBN. Internet Archive.
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