The mythologies of classicizing Roman poets were unlikely to have affected the rites and cult of individual nymphs venerated by country people in the springs and clefts of Latium. Among the Roman literate class, their sphere of influence was restricted, and they appear almost exclusively as divinities of the watery element. The ancient Greek belief in nymphs survived in many parts of the country into the early years of the twentieth century, when they were usually known as " nereids ".
At that time, John Cuthbert Lawson wrote: Nymphs tended to frequent areas distant from humans but could be encountered by lone travelers outside the village, where their music might be heard, and the traveler could spy on their dancing or bathing in a stream or pool, either during the noon heat or in the middle of the night.
They might appear in a whirlwind. Such encounters could be dangerous, bringing dumbness, besotted infatuation, madness or stroke to the unfortunate human. When parents believed their child to be nereid-struck, they would pray to Saint Artemidos. A motif that entered European art during the Renaissance was the idea of a statue of a nymph sleeping in a grotto or spring.
Due to the depiction of the mythological nymphs as females who mate with men or women freely and without care, the term is often related to women who are perceived as behaving similarly.
The term nymphomania was created by modern psychology as referring to a "desire to engage in human sexual behavior at a level high enough to be considered clinically significant", nymphomaniac being the person suffering from such a disorder. Due to widespread use of the term among lay persons often shortened to nympho and stereotypes attached, professionals nowadays prefer the term hypersexuality , which can refer to males and females alike. The word nymphet is used to identify a sexually precocious girl.
The term was made famous in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The main character, Humbert Humbert , uses the term many times, usually in reference to the title character. Rose states, all the names for various classes of nymphs are plural feminine adjectives agreeing with the substantive nymphai , and there was no single classification that could be seen as canonical and exhaustive.
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Thus, the classes of nymphs tend to overlap, which complicates the task of precise classification. Rose mentions dryads and hamadryads as nymphs of trees generally, meliai as nymphs of ash trees , and naiads as nymphs of water, but no others specifically. The following is a list of groups of nymphs associated with this or that particular location. Nymphs in such groupings could belong to any of the classes mentioned above Naiades, Oreades, and so on. The following is a selection of names of the nymphs whose class was not specified in the source texts.
For lists of Naiads, Oceanids, Dryades etc. Hylas and nymphs from a mosaic in Roman Gaul 3rd century. Public sex between a nymph and Satyr.
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