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In Greek mythology, Nemea (/ˈniːmiə/; Ancient Greek: Νεμέα or Νεμέαν means 'wooded district') was the eponymous nymph of Nemea, a district between Cleonae and Phlius in Argolis.[1]

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Nemea was one of the naiad daughters of the river-god Asopus[2] and possibly Metope, the river-nymph daughter of the river Ladon.[3] She was the sister of Salamis,[4] Aegina,[5] Corcyra, Thebe,[6] Antiope,[7] Cleone,[8] Harpina,[9] Plataea[10] (Oeroe[11]), and Tanagra.[12]

In some account, Nemea's parentage is attributed to Zeus and Selene.[13][14]

Notes

  1. ^ Pausanias, 2.15.3
  2. ^ Pausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6
  3. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
  4. ^ Pausanias, 1.35.2
  5. ^ Pausanias, 2.5.1-2, 2.29.2 & 5.22.6
  6. ^ Pausanias, 2.5.2 & 5.22.6
  7. ^ Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4
  8. ^ Pausanias, 2.15.1
  9. ^ Pausanias, 5.22.6
  10. ^ Pausanias, 9.1.1-2 & 9.3.1
  11. ^ Pausanias, 9.4.4
  12. ^ Pausanias, 9.20.1
  13. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Nemean Odes p. 425, ed. Böckh
  14. ^ Cook, Arthur Bernard (1914). Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. Cambridge University Press. pp. 456 & 732. ISBN 9781001409696.

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