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

The generic term "oread" itself appears to be Hellenistic (first attested in the Epitaph of Adonis (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Ἀδώνιδος) of Bion of Smyrna, fl. c. 100 BCE) .^[1]

List of Oreads[edit]

The number of Oreads includes but is not limited to:

Relations and Notes

Mount Dicte, Crete

daughter of Carme and Zeus^[2]

Mount Khelydorea, Arcadia

changed by Hermes into a tortoise^[3]

Mount Calathion, Messenia

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Mount Cyllene, Arcadia

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Mount Parnassos

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Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia

loved Narcissus^[7] and loved by Pan^[8]

Mount Othrys, Malis

mother of CerambusbyEusiros^[9]

Mount Ida, Crete

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Mount Nomia, Arcadia

a friend of Callisto^[11]

Mount Ida, Troad

daughter of the river-god Cebren and first wife of Paris^[12]

Mount Othrys, Malis

mother of Meliteus by Zeus and PhagerbyApollo^[13]

Phigalia, Arcadia

eponym of the town of Phigalia

loved by Pan^[14]

Mount Sinoe, Arcadia

nurse of Pan^[15]

loved by Hermes

Mount Cithaeron, Boeotia

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Honours[edit]

• Oread Institute, a former women's college in Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Mount OreadinLawrence, Kansas, named after the institute by settlers from Worcester
• Oread LakeinAntarctica

References[edit]

Sources

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