NAIAD OF HYDE - Lydian Nymph of Greek Mythology (original) (raw)

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NAIAS HYDE

Transliteration

Naias Hydê

Latin Spelling

Naiad Hyde

Translation

Of Hyde (town)

THE "NAIAS HYDE" was the unnamed Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the town of Hyde--later known as Sardis--in Lydia (western Anatolia). She was the mother of Iphition, an ally of the Trojans in their war with the Greeks.

Homer does not name her but the Naiad was probably either Hyde, the town's eponymous nymph, or Gygaie, the goddess-nymph of the nearby lake.

PARENTS

GYGAIE (Homer Iliad 20.384)

OFFSPRING

IPHITION (by Otrynteus) (Homer Iliad 20.381)

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Homer, Iliad 20. 381 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"He [Akhilleus (Achilles) in the Trojan War] killed Iphition son of Otrynteus, a leader of many people whom a Naias Nymphe (Naiad Nymph) had borne to Otrynteus waster of cities, in the district of Hyde under the snowy heights of Mount Tmolos (Tmolus) . . . [his] generation was of the lake waters of Gygaie (Gyge), where is the allotted land of your fathers by fish-swarming [river] Hyllos (Hyllus) and the whirling waters of Hermos (Hermus)."