Nysa

Role: Nyseian Nymph · First appears: Fable 34

Life events

• The Nyseian Nymphs conceal Bacchus in caves and nourish him with milk.(Fable34)
  • With: Cysseis Erato Eryphia Bromia Polyhymnia Bacchus
  • “After that, the Nyseian Nymphs[65] conceal him, entrusted {to them}, in their caves, and give him the nourishment of milk.”

Fable 34

• ward: Bacchus (Nysa is identified as the female who nursed Bacchus.) “Servius, in his commentary on the sixth Eclogue of Virgil (l. 15), says that Nysa was the name of the female that nursed Bacchus.”
• parent: Oceanus (Nysa is identified as Oceanus’s daughter.) “Hyginus also speaks of her as being the daughter of Oceanus.”
• with Hyginus (Hyginus identifies Nysa’s parentage.) “Hyginus also speaks of her as being the daughter of Oceanus.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.