Naïs (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Naïs (grc|Ναΐς|Naïs) is the name of the following figures:

Naïs, the mother of Chiron in one version.^[1]
Naïs, the mother of King Hypseus of the Lapiths, by the river-god Peneus.^[2] In some accounts, the mother of Hypseus was called Philyra^[3] or Creusa.^[4] In another version of the myth, the latter was called the daughter of Naïs and Peneus instead.^[5]
Naïs, a nymph who used herbs to transform her lovers into various fishes, until she suffered the same fate.^[6]
Naïs, a nymph and the mother of the river-god Achelous by Oceanus.^[7]
Naïs, the mother, in one version, of Glaucus by Poseidon.^[8]

Bibliography

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. Or Banquet Of The Learned Of Athenaeus. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.
Pseudo-Plutarch, Names of Rivers and Mountains, in Plutarch, The Moralia, translations edited by William Watson Goodwin (1831-1912), from the edition of 1878, a text in the public domain digitized by the Internet Archive and reformatted/lightly corrected by Brady Kiesling.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 42. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1916.