Castalia

The nymph of the Castalian spring at the foot of Mount Parnassus. She was regarded as a daughter of Achelous,1 and was believed to have thrown herself into the well when pursued by Apollo.2

Others derived the name of the well from one Castalius.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece x, 8.5.
  2. Lutat. on Statius' Thebaid i, 697.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.