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
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
Salmacis
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Salmacis was a naiad of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness.
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…who was the lover of Nomia or Echenais; Daphnis had on several occasions been unfaithful to Nomia and as revenge she permanently blinded him. The nymph Salmacis raped Hermaphroditus and fused with him when he tried to escape. The water nymph associated with particular springs was known all through Europe in…
Water Nymph Salmacis, engraving by Philip Galle (1587)
La nymphe Salmacis by François-Joseph Bosio, 1826 (Louvre)
The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus by François-Joseph Navez (1829)
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