Myrtoessa

In Greek mythology, Myrtoessa (Ancient Greek: Μυρτώεσσα) was an Arcadian nymph. Along with other nymphs – Neda, Anthracia, Hagno and Anchirhoe – she was a nurse of the god Zeus. On a table in a sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Megalopolis, she and Anchirhoe were depicted as carrying water-pots.[1] A non-marine mollusc called Myrtoessa hyas, in the Hydrobiidae (mud snail) family, is named after the nymph.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Pausanias, 8.31.4
  2. ^ Radea, C.; Parmakelis, A.; Giokas, S. (2016). "Myrtoessa hyas, a new valvatiform genus and a new species of the Hydrobiidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from Greece". ZooKeys (640): 1–18. Bibcode:2016ZooK..640....1R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.640.10674. PMC 5240362. PMID 28138282.

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