Opis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Opis (Ancient Greek: Ὦπις or Ὦπιν means 'sighting') or Upis (Οὖπις) may refer to the following characters:

Feminine

Masculine

  • Upis or Upisis, father of the "third" Artemis by Glauce.[13]

Surname

  • Oupis or Upis, a surname of Artemis, as the goddess assisting women in childbirth.[14]
  • Upis, a surname of Nemesis at Rhamnous, in the remote northernmost deme of Attica.[15]
  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 139
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  3. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  4. ^ This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Opis was a naiad, more likely an Oceanid, rather than a Nereid.
  5. ^ Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292
  6. ^ Herodotus, 4.35; Pausanias, 1.43.4 & 5.7.8
  7. ^ Nonnus, 48.331
  8. ^ Apollodorus, 1.4.5
  9. ^ Virgil: His life and times by Peter Levi, Duckworth, 1998
  10. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 11.533 & 11.863
  11. ^ Scholiast on Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis
  12. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  13. ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.23
  14. ^ Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 240
  15. ^ Pausanias, 1.33.2