LILAIA
Greek Name
Λιλαια
Transliteration
Lilaia
Latin Spelling
Lilaea
Translation
Of Lilaea (town)
LILAIA (Lilaea) was the Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Lilaia in Phokis (central Greece). She was a daughter of the local river-god Kephisos (Cephisus).
Lilaia was probably identified with Liriope, wife of Kephisos.
PARENTS
KEPHISOS (Pausanias 10.32.4)
ENCYCLOPEDIA
LILAEA (Lilaia), a Naiad, a daughter of Cephissus, from whom the town of Lilaea in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. x. 33. & 2.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 239 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or 6th B.C.) :
"Kephisos' (Cephisus') sweet stream which pours forth its sweet-flowing water from Lilaia (Lilaea)."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 32. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"They say that Lilaia (Lilaea) was one of the Naiades, as they are called, a daughter of the Kephisos (Cephisus), and that after this Nymphe the city [of Liliai in Phokis] was named."
SOURCES
GREEK
- The Homeric Hymns - Greek Epic C8th - 4th B.C.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd A.D.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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