Drosera (naiad)

Greek deities
series
Nymphs

In Greek mythology, Drosera (Ancient Greek: Δροσερή) was a naiad. She was one of the three ancestors of the Tyrians, along with Abarbarea and Callirrhoe. These nymphs were joined to sons of the soil (autochthonous) by the god Eros who was angered by their chastity.[1]

  1. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca Book 40.535ff. Translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1940