Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 368
4 Stephanas Thes. Gr. Ling. v. i6i6b—d. 5 R. Wagner in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 567 ff. For an excellent illustration of theNymphs nursing the infant Dionysos among trees see the silver aldbastron of c. 200 B.C.from Metropolis {Karditsa) in Thessaly published by A. S. Arvanitopullos in the… … Fig. 176. 550 B.C.) represents a pair of nymphs inscribed Nysai \ a mereeponym would not have been thuspkiralised. Kretschmer furthersuggests that Nysa as a place-nameis a shortened form of Nyseia orNysaia, and observes that Homeruses only the adjectival phraseNyseion^. On this showing nysdwas the…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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