Lilaea

For the plant, see Triglochin scilloides. For the city in ancient Phocis, see Lilaea (ancient city). For the modern settlement, see Lilaia (village). For the asteroid, see 213 Lilaea.

In Greek mythology, Lilaea or Lilaia (Ancient Greek: Λίλαια) may refer to two different women:

• Lilaea, a Naiad of a spring of the same name. She was the daughter of the river god Cephissus.^[1] The ancient polis of Lilaea, and the modern village of Lilaia in Phocis, and the asteroid 213 Lilaea are named after her.
• Lilaia, a maenad named in a vase painting.^[2]

Notes

1. Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 239; Pausanias, 10.32.4
2. Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1905). History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch. Vol. 2. pp. 66.

References

• The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.