Naïs (mythology)

For other uses, see Nais (disambiguation).

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

• Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.^[1]
• Naïs, the mother of King Hypseus of the Lapiths, by the river-god Peneus.^[2] In some accounts, the mother of Hypseus was called Philyra^[3] or Creusa.^[4] In another version of the myth, the latter was called the daughter of Naïs and Peneus instead.^[5]
• Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.^[6]
• Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.^[7]
• Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.^[8]