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In
Greek mythology, Nemea (;
Ancient Greek: Νεμέα or Νεμέαν means 'wooded district') was the eponymous
nymph of
Nemea, a district between
Cleonae and
Phlius in
Argolis.
[1]
Family
Nemea was one of the
naiad daughters of the
river-god
Asopus
[2] and possibly
Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river
Ladon.
[3] She was the sister of
Salamis,
[4]
Aegina,
[5]
Corcyra,
Thebe,
[6]
Antiope,
[7]
Cleone,
[8]
Harpina,
[9]
Plataea
[10] (
Oeroe
[11]), and Tanagra.
[12]
In some account, Nemea's parentage is attributed to
Zeus and
Selene.
[13]
[14]
Notes
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^
Pausanias, 2.15.3
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^ Pausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6
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^
Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
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^ Pausanias, 1.35.2
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^ Pausanias, 2.5.1-2, 2.29.2 & 5.22.6
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^ Pausanias, 2.5.2 & 5.22.6
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^ Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4
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^ Pausanias, 2.15.1
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^ Pausanias, 5.22.6
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^ Pausanias, 9.1.1-2 & 9.3.1
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^ Pausanias, 9.4.4
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^ Pausanias, 9.20.1
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^
Scholia on
Pindar, Nemean Odes p. 425, ed. Böckh
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^ Cook, Arthur Bernard (1914). Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. Cambridge University Press. pp.
456 &
732.
ISBN
9781001409696.
References
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Diodorus Siculus,
The Library of History translated by
Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes.
Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.