Lilaea
Template:Short description Template:For multiTemplate:Greek myth (nymph)In Greek mythology, Lilaea or Lilaia (Ancient Greek: Λίλαια) may refer to two different women:
- Lilaea, a Naiad of a spring of the same name. She was the daughter of the river god Cephissus.<ref>Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 239; Pausanias, 10.32.4</ref> The ancient polis of Lilaea, and the modern village of Lilaia in Phocis, and the asteroid 213 Lilaea are named after her.
- Lilaia, a maenad named in a vase painting.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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[edit]- The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.