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Oreads

1. Britomartis
2. Cynosura
3. Cyllene or Kyllene
4. Echo
5. Nomia
6. Oenone
7. Pitys
8. Pleiades
   1. Celaeno
   2. Alcyone
   3. Electra
   4. Maia
   5. Sterope
   6. Taygete
   7. Merope

"Oread" is also the title of a poem by Hilda Doolittle. In Greek mythology, Britomartis (sweet maid, good maiden, sweet virgin) was a nymph (an Oread) also known as Aphaea and Diktynna. ... In Greek mythology, Cynosura was a nymph (an Oread) on Mount Ida, Crete. ... There are several places on the Peloponnesus peninsula in Greece named Kyllíni (classically transliterated as Cyllene or Kyllênê): Mount Kyllini (Cyllene), the mythological birthplace of Hermes (also called Mount Ziria). ... Echo and Narcissus, by John William Waterhouse. ... In Greek mythology, Nomia was a naiad. ... In Greek mythology, Oenone (wine woman) was the first wife of Paris. ... In Greek mythology, Pitys (pine) was a nymph who was pursued by Pan. ... THE TITLE IS WRONG MUST BE = Pleiades (Greek Mythology) Greek myths is not the only or more important for be considered as whole. ... In Greek mythology, Celaeno referred to several different beings. ... Alcyone was a Greek demi-goddess, sometimes regarded as one of the Pleiades. ... The Pleiade, or Oceanid, Electra of Greek mythology was one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. ... Maia, in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. ... In Greek mythology, Sterope (Greek Στεροπη), also called Asterope, was one of the seven Pleiades (the daughters of Atlas and Pleione, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia) and the wife of Oenomaus (or, according to some accounts, his mother by Ares). ... In Greek mythology, Taygete (Greek: Ταϋγέτη, in Modern Greek Taygeti, Taigeti) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to Apollodorus (3. ... In Greek mythology, several unrelated women went by the name Merope (bee-mask later reinterpreted as honey-like or eloquent), which may, therefore, have denoted a position in the cult of the Great Mother rather than a mere individuals name: Merope, one of the Heliades Merope, foster mother of...

Hilda Doolittle published her first poems under the name H. D. Imagiste (the 'e' was meant to suggest the French poets to whom Imagism owed such a debt). Later, she dropped the artificial surname and wrote as just plain 'H. D.'. H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ...

Oread, one of her earliest and best-known poems, which was first published in the 1915 anthology, serves to illustrate this early style well.

The title Oread was added after the poem was first written, to suggest that a Nymph was ordering up the sea...

Oread

Whirl up, sea—

Whirl your pointed pines.

Splash your great pines

On our rocks.

Hurl your green over us—

Cover us with your pools of fir.