Pharmaceia

The nymph of a well with poisonous powers, near the river Ilissus, in Attica; she is described as a playmate of Orithyia, who was abducted by Boreas.

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References

Sources

  • Plato. Phaedrus, 229, c.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Timaeus. Lexicon Platonicum, s.v.

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