Wet nurse of Dionysus (Terpander in Lydus, Mens. 4,51) with cult in Athens (IG III 320, 351). Hom. Il. 6,132f. already knew of companions of N. Three Nysai meet on a vase by Sophilus (about 580). They appear in the sky as a group of stars called Hyades.
[2] In Homer, the toponym N. refers to a mythical place
In Homer, the top…
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Käppel, Lutz (Kiel),
Sigel, Dorothea (Tübingen) and
Kaletsch, Hans (Regensburg),
“Nysa”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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