Nysa (mythology)

Hermes delivers Dionysus to the nymph Nysa, 400s BC, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

In Greek mythology, the mountainous district of Nysa (Ancient Greek: Νῦσα, romanizedNûsa), variously associated with Ethiopia, Libya, Boeotia, Thrace, India, or Arabia by Greek mythographers, was the traditional place where the rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant god Dionysus, the "God of Nysa."