Naïs (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Naïs (Ancient Greek: Ναΐς, romanized: Naïs) is the name of the following figures:

  • Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.
  • Naïs, the mother of King Hypseus of the Lapiths, by the river-god Peneus. In some accounts, the mother of Hypseus was called Philyra or Creusa. In another version of the myth, the latter was called the daughter of Naïs and Peneus instead.
  • Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.
  • Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.
  • Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.
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