Hewitson's Small Tree-nymph (Ideopsis hewitsonii), species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily
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The name of this genus is derived from the Greek word arguropeza ("silver foot"), the epithet given by Homer to the sea nymph Thetis.
Though ostensibly concerning itself with the marriage of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis (parents of the famed Greek hero Achilles), a sizeable portion of the poem's lines are devoted to the desertion of Ariadne by the legendary Theseus.
He won a significant prize of 600 pounds in an open competition in 1864 from the Art Union of London for his marble work The Wood Nymph, which was judged to be the "best original figure or group".
His also is the fountain of Aréthuse, formerly surmounted by a marble nymph that had been sculpted in 1711 by Claude Poirier for Marly.
The Cornucopia, in Greek mythology, referred to the magnificent horn of the nymph Amalthea's goat (or of herself in goat form), that filled itself with whatever meat or drink its owner requested.
The story of Apollo falling in love with the eponymous nymph, Daphne, the opera was written for an elite circle of humanists in Florence, the Florentine Camerata, between 1594 and 1597, with the support, and possibly the collaboration, of the composer and patron Jacopo Corsi.
Waghorn was part of Sky’s BAFTA-nominated and Golden-Nymph award winning team covering the Egyptian revolution before the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak, from the outbreak of protests, to the 'Friday of Rage' protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, demanding Mubarak's rapid departure (rather than the long transition period envisaged by the Egyptian Government), and Mubarak's subsequent downfall and the immediate aftermath.
Dryad, Washington is a small logging town named by railway official William C. Albee for the mythical wood nymph.
It was as the cave of the sea nymph, Thetis, where Apollo rested after driving his chariot to light the sky.
From 2005 to 2007 he starred as Dunphia the wood nymph (Eamon Dunphy) and Fergie the Hair Dryer God (Alex Ferguson) in the musical comedy hit I, Keano.
Bassist Der Sturmer (Der Stürmer was also a Nazi newspaper published 1923-1945) would replace the Marauder and the line-up then recorded the LP Mocking the Philanthropist on the now defunct Belgian label Wood-Nymph.
Laura Hewitson, British-born primate researcher noted for her work in the fields of reproductive biology and behaviour
Flora is a thoroughly modern girl who has modeled for Modigliani, hobnobbed with communists, and been accused of obscenity for the racy book A Nymph and Her Muse.
The precious object becomes his when a powerful sorceress named Medea helps him conquer the dragon guarding it Jason has two children by Medea, but he abandons her for the nymph Creusa.
His surviving works include "Coy Daphne Fled", about the nymph Daphne and her fate, and "Like as the lute delights".
2004 Monte Carlo TV Awards Golden Nymph for Best Director - Television Films (The Blackwater Lightship)
Nymph, Autumn Leaves and Woodland Goddess are some of his best known works, some of which are shown in the movie A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick and also on the cover of one of Edwyn Collins' singles.
His best-known work is Undine, the title character in the novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, a water nymph who falls in love with a man.
Ingres' subject matter is borrowed from an episode in Homer's Iliad when the sea nymph Thetis begs Jupiter to intervene and guide the fate of her son Achilles; who was at the time embroiled in the Trojan War.
The viviparous females drill tunnels in the epidermis where they give birth to six-legged larvae, which mutate through two eight-legged nymphal stages from the second of which the adults molt.
After selling this statue to a shop owner in a port town, Nigel is accosted by a wood nymph named Friday.
An alternate spelling of Larunda (also known as Larunde or Lara), a nymph in Ancient Roman myth
Liriope (nymph), the mother of Narcissus by the river-god Cephissus, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The best of worldwide television programming has been rewarded with the Golden Nymphs statuettes, copies of the “Salmacis” Nymph by the Monegasque sculptor François Joseph Bosio (1768-1845), the original of which is on show at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
In his Dionysiaca, Nonnus recorded their waters being used by Dionysus to drug the nymph Nicaea after she offended the Rhyndacides by murdering the shepherd Hymnus.
Designed by Desmond Norman when with Britten-Norman the BN-3 Nymph was an all-metal high-wing braced monoplane powered by a 115hp Lycoming O-235 engine.
1162 Larissa, discovered 1930, was named for the Thessalian town Larissa and Larissa, a moon of Neptune, discovered 1989, was named after the nymph Larissa.
Narayana sent this nymph to Indra with them, and from her having been produced from the thigh (uru in Sanskrit) of the sage, she was called Urvashi.
He sculpted Frederick Barbarossa for the Kyffhäuser monument; a statue of Labor for the Reichsbank building in Berlin; and Centaur with Dancing Nymph for the National Gallery.
Oliver Kite popularised to a wide audience the Netheravon style of nymph fishing invented by Frank Sawyer, the Avon riverkeeper and author, to whom he gave full credit in his book "Nymph Fishing in Practice", first published in 1963.
She is the sister of actors Honeysuckle Weeks, to whom she bears a strong resemblance, and Rollo Weeks; she co-starred with the former in Goggle Eyes (1993) and Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph (1997), in which she played the younger version of her sister's character.
Laboratory-induced diapause tests on nymph specimens from Hachijō-jima Island and Naha, Okinawa responded quite differently to photoperiodic stimulii, which “might be regarded as the result of divergent evolution” between the parapatric populations.
While fulfilling commissions in Paris, for the Church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon, Paris), or at the Pavillon de Flore of the Louvre, he sculpted in 1785 a virtuoso marble ensemble of the nymph Amalthea and the goat that nurtured Jupiter for the Queen's fastidiously-appointed Dairy (La Laiterie) at the Château de Rambouillet; for his model, he adapted the pose of the famous Capitoline Venus.
Later writers provide Rhesus with a more exotic parentage, claiming that his mother was one of the Muses (Calliope, Euterpe, or Terpsichore), his father the river god Strymon, and he was raised by fountain nymphs.
Sevenia natalensis, the Natal tree nymph, a butterfly species found in southeastern Africa
The village is located next to a natural spring named Nymph, which is a mythological deity that protected the spring.
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There is one tourist hotel in the village (ironically also named Nymph), and several restaurants that cater to passing foreign tourist trade and in the summer months many people work in tourist hotels elsewhere.
2007: as Nymph in Rusalka, Richard Hickox (cond), Australian Opera Orchestra, Cheryl Barker, Rosario La Spina, Bruce Martin, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Anne-Marie Owens; Chandos Records
He chose his stage name, which not only signifies the nymph Syrinx in ancient Greek mythology, but also the Pan flute itself.
Tree nymph is another term for a Dryad in Ancient Greek mythology.
The story of a nymph marrying a noble-born human and leaving her celestial home has been used in 1957 Tamil film Manalane Mangayin Bhagyam