Potameides

For the sea snail genus, see Potamides (gastropod).

In Greek mythology, potameides (Ancient Greek: ποταμηίδες) is a name for nymphs of rivers.^[1] It is used by Apollonius of Rhodes,^[2] who writes that, when Jason summoned the goddess Hecate:^[3]

All the watery meadows shook at her footstep, and the marsh-dwelling river nymphs [ποταμηίδες] wailed, those who dance around that marshy meadow of Amarantian Phasis.

A scholium on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia)^[4] states that epipotamídes (ἐπιποταμίδες) is the name given to nymphs of rivers.^[5]