Neda

One of the nurses of the infant Zeus. The river Neda and also a town derived their name from her.1 She is represented on a table at Megalopolis, carrying Zeus,2 and on the altar of Athena Alea at Tegea.3

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 31.4; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.
  2. ibid. viii, 38.3.
  3. ibid. viii, 47.3.

Source

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