A nymph in Greek mythology?

Question

I would like to ask you if you know about this
nymph in Greek mythology because I'm doing some research on this
village in Greece called Kirra, and according to this
link:http://www.gtp.gr/LocInfo.asp?infoid=43&code=EGRHFO20ITEITE70190&PrimeCode=EGRHFO20ITEITE70190&Level=10&PrimeLevel=10&IncludeWide=1&LocId=62891
Cirrha (Kirra), a nymph from whom the town of Cirrha in Phocis was
believed to have derived its name. I can't find any more information on the
nymph on the internet so can you tell if you know anything?

I already have enough info on the town and I don't info on nymphs in gernal. I just need to know about that nypmph named after Kirra the town. But thank you to you all for trying! If anyone knows or finds out the smallest thing about this very little known nymph please tell me. My e-mail address is [e-mail]

Answer 1

Kirra (in Greek Κίρρα)is another name of Κρίσα (I'm not sure how to write it in English; it's either Krisa or Krisha) was a very important town in Phocis, Greece. It's name was referred in Homer's "Iliad". The town got its good reputation due to the fact that it was near the Temple of Delphi. You can't find any info about the nymph Kirra, for the simple reason that there wasn't a nymph with this name; Kirra just the town I've described above.

Answer 2

Well, as Im really interested in Greek mythology, I tried looking to find some information on this nymph and the city of Cirrha in general, but I couldnt find anything. All I could find was the same sentence of information that you got about it being a nymph from which the town of Cirrha got its name. Im guessing that from the lack of information on the internet and in some books that I have that little is known about the town as it was in antiquity and even less about the nymph for which it is named.

Is there a specific reason that you are researching this town?

Answer 3

I AM SORRY BUT I GOT INFORMATION ONLY ABOUT PHOCIS AND NOT OF KIRRA,
I AM TRYING MY BEST, IF I GET ANY INFORMATION I WILL LET YOU KNOW THROUGH YOUR ID.

Phocis, ancient province of central Greece, divided into two distinct parts by Mount Parnassus. The province's historical importance is derived from its claim to rights over the shrine and sacred oracle of Apollo at Delphi, and the efforts of Delphi to free itself from Phocian control. This gave rise to two Sacred Wars, one in 590 bc and the second in 448 bc. A third Sacred War occurred in 356 bc, when the Amphictyonic League, to which Phocis belonged, decreed that the Phocians be fined for religious offences. They refused to pay and seized Delphi, not then under their control, using the treasures of the shrine to hire mercenaries. The resulting war ended disastrously for the Phocians. Defeated by Philip II of Macedon, they were expelled from the Amphictyonic League, their towns were reduced in size, and they were forced to pay a large yearly fine to the Delphic sanctuary.

Answer 4

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of female nature entities, either bound to a particular location or landform or joining the retinue of a god or goddess. Nymphs were the frequent target of lusty satyrs.

"The idea that rivers are gods and springs divine nymphs," Walter Burkert remarks (Burkert III.3.3) "is deeply rooted not only in poetry but in belief and ritual; the worship of these deities is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality." Nymphs are personifications of the creative and fostering activities of nature, most often identified with the life-giving outflow of springs. The Greek word νύμφη has "bride" and "veiled" among its meanings: hence, a marriagable young woman. Other readers refer the word (and also Latin nubere and German Knospe) to a root expressing the idea of "swelling" (according to Hesychius, one of the meanings of νύμφη is "rose-bud"). The home of the nymphs is on mountains and in groves, by springs and rivers, in valleys and cool grottoes. They are frequently associated with the superior divinities: the huntress Artemis; the prophetic Apollo; the reveller and god of wine, Dionysus; and with rustic gods such as Pan and Hermes (as the god of shepherds).

The symbolic marriage with a nymph of a patriarchal leader, often the eponym of a people, is repeated endlessly in Greek origin myths; clearly such a union lent authority to the archaic king and to his line.

Nymph classifications
The different species of nymph are sometimes distinguished according to the different spheres of nature with which they were connected. However, many of these distinctions may not have existed in popular belief at any time, being late inventions. As Rose (1959, p. 173) states, "the fact is that all these names are simply feminine adjectives, agreeing with the substantive nympha, and there was no orthodox and exhaustive classification of these shadowy beings." He mentions (pp. 172–3) dryads and hamadryads as nymphs of trees generally, meliai as nymphs of ash trees, and naiads as nymphs of water, but no others specifically.

You can get to know more on Nymph, in Greek Mythology from website -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph
also the articles and references mentioned at the bootm of the website.

Answer 5

A nymph isn't a god. that is only a mythical creature. in accordance to the dictionary that's: "A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a appealing maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or different places"

Answer 6

http://www.angelfire.com/goth/kitt13/ahs/wss.html

This is the only info I can find. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

www.paleothea.com/Nymphs.html
www.loggia.com/myth/nymphs