Nymphs Offering the Young Bacchus Caesar
Van-Everdingen
Finding Nymphs
John Williams Waterhouse
Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns-
Rubens
c-1638-1640
Nymphs Listening To The Songs of Orpheus
Charles François_Jalabert
William Bouguereau
Hylas and the Nymphs
Waterhouse
dryads - from the word for tree or oak, tree nymphs or sometimes used for nymphs in general
- meliads - of the ash trees or fruit trees in general
- hamadryads - tree nymphs who are born and die with their trees
- oreades - of the mountains
- naiads - of springs, general bodies of water
- heleads - nymphs of the fen
- epimeliads - protectors of sheep and their flocks
- leimoniads - nymphs of the meadows or flowers
- limnades - nymphs of lakes, marshes, and swamps
- okeanids - nymphs of fountains and streams, daughters of okeanos
- potameides - nymphs of the rivers
- nereids - nymphs of the ocean, daughters of nereus
- pteleades - of elm trees
- hudriades - water nymphs in general
- some notable individual nymphs from mythology: thetis, echo, daphne, maia
