Opis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Opis (Ancient Greek: Ὦπις, romanized: Ôpis, lit. 'sighting') or Upis (Ancient Greek: Οὖπις, romanized: Oûpis) may refer to the following characters:

Feminine

• Opis or Ops, another name for Rhea.[1]
• Opis, one of the 50 Nereides, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[2] She was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene.[3][4]
• Opis, Oupis or Upis, a Hyperborean nymph, daughter of the North Wind Boreas.[5] Together with Arge, she carried an offering which had been vowed for the birth of Apollo and Artemis, to Eileithyia, at Delos.[6]
• Upis, the name of a mythical being said to have reared Artemis.[7] She may be the same as in above nymph.
• Opis or Ops, mother by Evaemon of Eurypylus, one of the Achaean Leaders.[8]

Masculine

• Upis or Upisis, father of the "third" Artemis by Glauce.[9]

Surname

• Oupis or Upis, a surname of Artemis, as the goddess assisting women in childbirth.[10]
• Upis, a surname of Nemesis at Rhamnous, in the remote northernmost deme of Attica.[11]

Notes

1. Hyginus, Fabulae 139
2. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
3. Virgil, Georgics 4.343
4. This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Opis was a naiad, more likely an Oceanid, rather than a Nereid.
5. Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292
6. Herodotus, 4.35; Pausanias, 1.43.4 & 5.7.8
7. Scholiast on Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis
8. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
9. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.23
10. Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 240
11. Pausanias, 1.33.2

References

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• Callimachus, Works. A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. ISBN 0-674-99133-8. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812–1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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