Cyrene (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Cyrene, also spelled Kyrene, was the etymon of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. She was said to have been a Thessalian princess and huntress who became the queen regnant of Cyren
Cyrene depicted on a mosaic of the 2nd century CE
Cyrene and Cattle by Edward Calvert, 1830s or 1840s
Naiad
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In Greek mythology, the naiads, sometimes also hydriads, are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are dist
Cyrene (mythology)
…having been founded by settlers from Thera. As recorded in Pindar's ninth Pythian ode, Cyrene was the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths, and the Naiad Chlidanope. According to scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, she also had a sister called Larissa. Cyrene's other sisters were Themisto, Alcaea and Astyagyia…
John William Waterhouse A Naiad or Hylas with a Nymph, 1893
Undine, by John William Waterhouse
Gioacchino Pagliei - The Naiads, 1881
Fountain of the Naiads, 1888, Piazza della Repubblica, Rome