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
GREEK
- Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd A.D.
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