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, Anthracia () was an Arcadian

nymph A nymph (; ; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore. Distinct from other Greek goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature; they are typically tied to a specific place, land ...

. According to Pausanias, she was depicted holding a torch on a table at a temple in

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, alongside the nymphs Neda, Hagno, Anchiroe and Myrtoessa, and the young

Zeus Zeus (, ) is the chief deity of the List of Greek deities, Greek pantheon. He is a sky father, sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. Zeus is the child ...

, with her presumably being shown as one of the nurses of the infant god. Pausanias also mentions her as one of the figures on one side of an altar of

Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarde ...

Tegea Tegea (; ) was a settlement in ancient Arcadia, and it is also a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the Tripoli municipality, of which it is a municipal unit with an area o ...

, in the centre of which the young Zeus is held by his mother Rhea and the nymph Oenoe.''RE''
s.v. Anthrakia
Pausanias
8.47.3

Notes

References

* Pausanias, ''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, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1918
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* Wissowa, Georg, ''

Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft The Pauly encyclopedias or the Pauly-Wissowa family of encyclopedias, are a set of related encyclopedias on Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman classical studies, topics and scholarship. The first of these, or (1839–1852), was begun by compiler A ...

'', Band 1, Halbband 2, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1894
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