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In Greek mythology, Ephyra (Ancient Greek: Ἐφύρα, romanized: Ephýra, lit. "nymph") or Ephyre may refer to two different deities:

Ephyra, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus^[1] and his sister-wife Tethys.^[2] Otherwise, she was called the daughter^[3] or wife^[4]^[5] of the Titan Epimetheus. Ephyra was the first to dwell in the land of Ephyrae, which was later called Corinth.^[6] In some accounts, her father was called Myrmex.^{[citation needed]} Ephyra was sometimes attributed to be the mother of Aeetes by Helios.^[7]
Ephyre, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[8]^[2] She was in the train of Cyrene along with her sister Opis, Deiopea and Arethusa.^[9] This Ephyra may be the same to the above Oceanid.^[10]

^ Hyginus, Fabulae 275; Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes as cited in Simonides, fr. 596
^ ^a ^b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 127. ISBN 9780786471119.
^ Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1212
^ Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1212 as cited in Simonides, fr. 596
^ Eumelus, fr. 1 Fowler (Fowler 2013, p. 13)
^ Pausanias, 2.1.1 with Eumelus in his Korinthian History as the authority
^ Epimenides in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.242
^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^ Virgil, Georgics 4.343
^ This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Ephyra was a naiad, more likely an Oceanides, rather than a Nereid.