Neda
Family: Arcadian mythology · Role: nymph · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 33
In Book 4, Chapter 33, Neda is named among Zeus’s nurses, who reared him. In Book 8, Chapter 38, she is again said to have brought up Zeus with Thisoa and Hagno, and she gave her name to the river Neda.
Relationship record
Life events
- Thisoa, Neda, and Hagno brought up Zeus.(Book 8 · Chapter 38)
- Neda gave her name to the river Neda.(Book 8 · Chapter 38)
- “Neda gave her name to the river Neda”
Book 4 · Chapter 33
- with Zeus (Neda was Zeus's nurse.) “They say that Zeus was reared among them, and that Ithome and Neda were his nurses”
- ward: Zeus (Neda is identified as one of Zeus's nurses.) “They say that Zeus was reared among them, and that Ithome and Neda were his nurses”
Book 8 · Chapter 31
- with Zeus (Neda is depicted carrying the infant Zeus.) “Neda carrying Zeus while still a baby”
Book 8 · Chapter 38
- ward: Zeus (Neda is identified as one of the nymphs who brought Zeus up.) “And the names of the Nymphs, by whom they say Zeus was brought up, were (they say) Thisoa and Neda and Hagno.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.