Crinaeae

In Greek mythology, the Crinaeae (/kraɪˈniː.iː/; Greek Κρηναῖαι) were a type of Naiad nymphs associated with fountains or wells.

The number of Crinaeae includes but is not limited to:^[1]

1. Aganippe^[2][3][4]
2. Appias (Roman mythology)^[5]
3. Myrtoessa (one of the nurses of infant Zeus, dwelled in a well in Arcadia)^[6][7]
4. The Sithnides (a group of nymphs associated with a fountain in Megara)^[8]

Sources

• Theoi Project - Naiads
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 1216

References

1. Theoi Project - List of Nymphs and types of Nymphs
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 29. § 3
3. Virgil, Eclogae 10. 12.
4. Theoi Project - Aganippe
5. Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 659; Ars Amatoria, 1. 81., 3. 451
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.31.4
7. Theoi Project - Myrtoessa
8. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.40.1

See also

• Nymph
• Naiad
• Camenae
• Pegaeae