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24-409: Cyane (sometimes anglicized as "Kyane") was a naiad , a freshwater nymph . After witnessing Hades's abduction of Persephone and trying to prevent it, Cyane was turned to liquid by Hades. In Ovid 's version, she dissolved away in tears upon failing to save her friend and melted into her pool. In the ancient Greek world the nymph represented a particular aspect of nature. Arethusa , a naiad like Kyane,

48-475: A Naiad now would make his bed    Forgetting Herakles,’ In Canzonet : Hylas is dead, Nor will he e’er divine    Those little red Rose-petalled lips of thine. In Ravenna : Long time I watched, and surely hoped to see Some goat-foot Pan ... Or Hylas mirrored in the perfect stream. And in " De Profundis " Wilde wrote (to Lord Alfred Douglas ), "I compare you to Hylas, or Hyacinth, Jonquil or Narcisse, or someone whom

72-451: A warrior. The poet Theocritus (about 300 BC) wrote about the love between Heracles and Hylas: "We are not the first mortals to see beauty in what is beautiful. No, even Amphitryon 's bronze-hearted son, who defeated the savage Nemean lion , loved a boy—charming Hylas, whose hair hung down in curls. And like a father with a dear son, he taught him all the things which had made him a mighty man, and famous." Heracles took Hylas with him on

96-474: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Naiad In Greek mythology , the naiads ( / ˈ n aɪ æ d z , ˈ n eɪ æ d z , - ə d z / ; ‹See Tfd› Greek : ναϊάδες , translit.   naïádes ), sometimes also hydriads , are a type of female spirit, or nymph , presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water . They are distinct from river gods , who embodied rivers, and

120-718: Is also mentioned in Thomas Hardy 's Far from the Madding Crowd : "He called again: the valleys and farthest hills resounded as when the sailors invoked the lost Hylas on the Mysian shore; but no sheep." Hylas is a character in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), played by John Cairney . Hylas und die Nymphen (Switzerland, 2013) is an 11-minute short, based on the myth: "The body of a young man ( Kai Albrecht ) floats in

144-493: Is associated with a spring and pool in Syracuse (Siracusa); Kyane is said to dwell in a river bearing her name in southeastern Sicily. She had as a partner the river god Anapus . She cited their love as an example of consensual relationship while trying to convince Hades not to take Persephone by force. In the popular TV series Xena: Warrior Princess , Cyane is a recurring name of prominent Amazon warriors, each considered

168-668: The Argo , thus making him one of the Argonauts . Hylas was kidnapped by Naiads of the spring of Pegae in Mysia when they fell in love with him, and he vanished into the water with a cry. His disappearance greatly upset Heracles, who, along with Polyphemus , searched for him for a great length of time. The ship soon set sail without them. According to the Latin Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus , they never found Hylas because

192-516: The Celtic wells of northwest Europe that have been rededicated to Saints, and in the medieval Melusine . Walter Burkert points out, "When in the Iliad [xx.4–9] Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Olympians who come along, but also all the nymphs and all the rivers; Okeanos alone remains at his station", Greek hearers recognized this impossibility as

216-588: The Nymphes eke "Hylas" cryde. Hylas is also mentioned in Christopher Marlowe 's play Edward II : "Not Hylas was more mourned for of Hercules / Than thou hast been of me since thy exile" (Act I, Scene I, line 142-3). Oscar Wilde mentions Hylas at least six times in his published works. In The Picture of Dorian Gray , Chapter 11: "...and gilded a boy that he might serve at the feast as Ganymede or Hylas." In his sonnet, Santa Decca , lamenting

240-413: The death of gods: "Young Hylas seeks the water-springs no more;" In The Garden of Eros : "There are the flowers which mourning Herakles / Strewed on the tomb of Hylas". In Charmides : Some woodmen saw him lying by the stream And marvelled much that any lad so beautiful could seem, Nor deemed him born of mortals, and one said,    ‘It is young Hylas, that false runaway Who with

264-633: The great god of Poetry favoured, and honoured with his love." Hylas is referred to in Chapter 18 of Charles Kingsley 's novel Hypatia , when the Prefect Orontes, rescued by the Goths, is taken for safety into a house largely populated by women, and fancies himself as "A second Hylas". "Hylas" is a poem by Madison Cawein , including the lines "Hylas, the Argonaut, the lad Beloved of Herakles,

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288-403: The latter had fallen in love with the nymphs and remained "to share their power and their love" . In the version told by Apollonios Rhodios , the sea-god Glaucus informs the Argonauts that "a nymph has lost her heart to him and made him her husband" . Theocritus, on the other hand, has the nymphs shutting his mouth underwater to stifle his screams for Heracles. Antoninus Liberalis says that

312-484: The local naiad of the spring. In places like Lerna their waters' ritual cleansings were credited with magical medical properties. Animals were ritually drowned there. Oracles might be situated by ancient springs. Naiads could be dangerous: Hylas of the Argo ’s crew was lost when he was taken by naiads fascinated by his beauty. The naiads were also known to exhibit jealous tendencies. Theocritus 's story of naiad jealousy

336-476: The naiads: when his bees died in Thessaly , he went to consult them. His aunt Arethusa invited him below the water's surface, where he was washed with water from a perpetual spring and given advice. Hylas In classical mythology , Hylas ( Ancient Greek : Ὕλας , romanized :  Hýlas ) was a youth who served Heracles (Roman Hercules ) as companion and servant. His abduction by water nymphs

360-470: The nymphs changed him into an echo which again and again echoed back the cries of Heracles. The story of Hylas and the nymphs is alluded to in Book 3 of Edmund Spenser 's The Faerie Queene , Canto XII, Stanza 7: Or that same daintie lad, which was so deare To great Alcides, that when as he dyde He wailed womanlike with many a teare, And every wood, and every valley wyde He fild with Hylas name;

384-400: The poet's hyperbole , which proclaimed the universal power of Zeus over the ancient natural world: "the worship of these deities," Burkert confirms, "is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality." Robert Graves offered a sociopolitical reading of the common myth-type in which a mythic king is credited with marrying a naiad and founding a city: it

408-436: The series. All shown Cyanes are powerful and charismatic, but "Cyane IV" is somewhat aphoristic, and "Cyane V" overly polite and shy. The first Cyane came from the future: she taught Amazons to tame horses and (in a strange time loop) gave them the name "Amazons". A powerful person, "Cyane III" defeated both Xena (in a physical battle) and Alti (in a spiritual battle). She was trusting of Xena and even offered to let her join

432-551: The tribe. Xena betrayed Cyane when Alti "offered her a better deal". Alti wanted Cyane's blood, and after she drank it she kept Cyane's soul and the souls of all the Amazons in the land of the dead. She then used their power for herself and made it evil. The souls of the Amazons were trapped in the land of the dead until the reformed Xena killed Alti and found the Amazon's new holy word, Love. This article relating to Greek mythology

456-574: The very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes such as pre- Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolis . The Greek word is ναϊάς ( naïás [naːiás] ), plural ναϊάδες ( naïádes [naːiádes] ). It derives from νάειν ( náein ), "to flow", or νᾶμα ( nâma ), "running water". Naiads were often the object of archaic local cults, worshipped as essential to humans. Boys and girls at coming-of-age ceremonies dedicated their childish locks to

480-502: The worthy successor of the former one: five different Cyanes (from different times) are shown in "Xenaverse", played respectively by Victoria Pratt as "Cyane III", Selma Blair as "Cyane I", Shelley Edwards as "Cyane IV" and Morgan Reese Fairhead as "Cyane V". "Cyane II" appears in Young Hercules series, played by Katrina Browne. There are probably some other Cyanes between "Cyane I" and "Cyane II", but they are not shown in

504-489: Was I" Hylas is the name of one of the two characters in George Berkeley 's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous . He represents the materialist position against which Berkeley (through Philonous) argues. In this context, the name is derived from ὕλη, the classical Greek word for "matter." Stanisław Lem adopted these characters in his 1957 non-fiction, philosophical book Dialogi ( Dialogues ). Hylas

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528-478: Was a theme of ancient art, and has been an enduring subject for Western art in the classical tradition . In Greek mythology , Hylas was the son of King Theiodamas of the Dryopians and the nymph Menodice , daughter of Orion . In some accounts, his father was Euphemus or King Ceyx of Trachis . After Heracles killed Theiodamas in battle, he took on Hylas as his arms-bearer and taught him to be

552-410: Was that of a shepherd, Daphnis , who was the lover of Nomia or Echenais; Daphnis had on several occasions been unfaithful to Nomia and as revenge she permanently blinded him. The nymph Salmacis raped Hermaphroditus and fused with him when he tried to escape. The water nymph associated with particular springs was known all through Europe in places with no direct connection with Greece, surviving in

576-455: Was the newly arrived Hellenes justifying their presence. The loves and rapes of Zeus, according to Graves' readings, record the supplanting of ancient local cults by Olympian ones (Graves 1955, passim ). So, in the back-story of the myth of Aristaeus , Hypseus, a king of the Lapiths , married Chlidanope, a naiad, who bore him Cyrene . Aristaeus had more than ordinary mortal experience with

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