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TIASA

Greek Name

Τιασα

Transliteration

Tiasa

Latin Spelling

Tiasa

Translation

Of the Tiasa (stream)

TIASA was the Naiad-nymph of the stream and springs of the Tiasa near Amyklai (Amyclae) in Lakedaimonia (southern Greece). She was a daughter of the local river-god Eurotas.


PARENTS

EUROTAS (Pausanias 3.18.6)


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 18. 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"As you go down to Amyklai (Amyclae) from Sparta [in Lakedaimonia] you come to a river called Tiasa. They hold that Tiasa was a daughter of Eurotas."


SOURCES

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