The Greeks believed that every tree had its wood nymph and every river had its river god. |
It glimmers with the image of the adjacent water nymph in steep foreshortening. |
Once, however, Arethusa was not water or even a water nymph but a fair young huntress and a follower of Artemis. |
There was a familiarity about her, this princess, this wood nymph, a familiarity he couldn't express or identify. |
According to Greek myth, a nubile young wood nymph named Echo spied young Narcissus walking in the woods. |
Are you some sort of water nymph, or mermaid, some seducing goddess, leading men into waters, and manipulating them at your will? |