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Template:Greek myth (nymph)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. 2. pp. 66. 

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