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KefisideV
Kephisides
Cephisides
Of the Cephisus (river) |
THE KEPHISIDES (or Cephisides) were the Naiad Nymphs of the River Kephisos in Boiotia (central Greece).
| PARENTS |
| KEPHISOS (Corinna Frag 655, Ovid Metamorphoses 3.350) |
| OFFSPRING |
| 50x SONS (by Orion) (Corinna Frag 655) |
"The Kharites’s city, home of lovely dances [Orkhomenos], where the Nymphe, daughter of Kephissos, has her precinct." - Pindar, Pythian 12 str4
"Women of Tanagra ... often I adorned [with songs] our ancestor Kephisos with my words, often great Orion and the fifty sons of high strength whom he fathered by intercourse with the fair Nymphai [the Kephisides]." - Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Frag 655
"On the green grass he [Narkissos] drooped his weary head, and those bright eyes that loved their master’s beauty closed in death … His sister Naides wailed and sheared their locks in mourning for their brother; the Dryades too wailed and sad Echo wailed in answering woe. And then the brandished torches, bier and pyre were ready - but no body anywhere; and in its stead they found a flower - behold, white petals clustered round a cup of gold!" - Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.505
Sources:
- Pindar, Odes - Greek Lyric C5th BC
- Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Fragments - Greek Lyric C5th BC
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD
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