Pegaea (mythology)

Greek deities
series

* Primordial deities
* Titans and Olympians
* Water deities
* Chthonic deities
* Personified concepts

Nymphs

* Alseid
* Anthousai
* Auloniad
* Aurae
* Crinaeae
* Daphnaie
* Dryads
* Eleionomae
* Epimeliads
* Hamadryads
* Hesperides
* Hyades
* Lampads
* Leimakids
* Leuce
* Limnades
* Meliae
* Minthe
* Naiads
* Napaeae
* Nephele
* Nereids
* Oceanids
* Oreads
* Pegaeae
* Pegasides
* Pleiades
* Potamides
* Semystra
* Thriae

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In Greek mythology, Pegaea (Ancient Greek: Πηγαία means 'from a spring') was one of the Ionides nymphs whose spring waters were believed to cure diseases. She was an Elean naiad-daughter of the river-god Cytherus and sister to Synallasis, Calliphaea and Iasis.[1]

## Note

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1. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 6.22.7

## References

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* 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.

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