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KEPHISIDES
 

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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