In Greek mythology, the Maliades (Μηλίδες), also known as the Spercheides (Ancient Greek: Σπερχειδες), were naiads of the Spercheus River, in Malis.[1][2] They were sometimes held to be the daughters of the river god Spercheus and the naiad Deino, although Antoninus Liberalis reported the tradition that Cerambus was punished for making this claim.[3]
See also
Note
- ^ Sophocles, Philoctetes 725
- ^ “A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Ma, Mago, Ma’liades”. www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 22
References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Further reading
- Lebrun, René, “À propos des déesses maliades et de quelques épiclèses grécoasianiques”, in Kernos, Vol. 2, pp. 83–88, 1989.