Oread

Les Oréades (1902) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, in Musée d'Orsay

In Greek mythology, an Oread (/ˈɔːriˌæd, ˈɔːriəd/; Ancient Greek: Ὀρειάς, romanized: Oreiás, stem Ὀρειάδ-, Oreiád-, Latin: Oreas/Oread-, from ὄρος, "mountain") or Orestiad /ɔːˈrɛstiˌæd, -iəd/; Ὀρεστιάδες, Orestiádes) is a mountain nymph. They differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idaeae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelion, etc. They were associated with Artemis, since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mountains and rocky precipices.

The term itself appears to be Hellenistic, first attested in Bion of Smyrna's Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος and thus post-Classical.^[1]

List of Oreads[]

The number of Oreads includes but is not limited to:

List of Oreads
Name	Location	Relations and Notes
Britomartis	Mount Dicte, Crete
Chelone		changed by Hermes into a tortoise
	Mount Calathion, Messenia	^[2]
Cyllene	Mount Cyllene, Arcadia	^[3]
Daphnis	Mount Parnassos	^[4]
Echo	Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia	loved Narcissus^[5]
Eidothea	Mount Othrys, Malis	was loved by Poseidon^[6]
The Idaeae	Mount Ida, Crete	^[7]^[8]
• Adrasteia
• Cynosura
• Helike
• Ida
Nomia	Mount Nomia, Arcadia	a friend of Callisto^[9]
Oenone
Othreis	Mount Othrys, Malis	^[10]
Penelope
Phigalia
Pitys		loved by Pan	^[11]
Sinoe	Mount Sinoe, Arcadia	nurse of Pan^[12]
		loved by Hermes
The Sphragitides or Cithaeronides	Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia	^[13]^[14]

Honours[]

Mount Oread in Lawrence, Kansas
Oread Lake in Antarctica

References[]

^ Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v. text at Perseus project
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.26.11
^ Bibliotheca 3.8.1
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.5.5
^ Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 970
^ Dryads & Oreiade; Theoi Project
^ Bibliotheca 1.4.5
^ Hyginus, Astronomica, 2.2
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.0
^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 13
^ Propertius, Elegies 1. 18
^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.30.2
^ Plutarch, Life of Aristides 11. 3
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.3.9

[1] Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v. text at Perseus project

[2] Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.26.11

[3] Bibliotheca 3.8.1

[4] Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.5.5

[5] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 970

[6] Dryads & Oreiade; Theoi Project

[7] Bibliotheca 1.4.5

[8] Hyginus, Astronomica, 2.2

[9] Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.0

[10] Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 13

[11] Propertius, Elegies 1. 18

[12] Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.30.2

[13] Plutarch, Life of Aristides 11. 3

[14] Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.3.9

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