Telphusa

A naiad of a spring at the foot of Mount Tilphossium in Boetia. She tricked Apollo into not building his shrine beside her spring, for which the god punished her by burying her waters neath a pile of rocks.

The seer Tiresias is said to have died there after he fled to Thebes; his grave was by the spring.

References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 33.1.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 7.3.