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In Greek mythology, the Na'iads were nymphs of fountains and brooks.
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In Greek mythology, the Naiads were water nymphs.
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In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a beautiful youth who rejected the love of the nymph Echo and was condemned to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool. He pined away and in the place where he died a flower sprang up that was named after him.
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Nauplius was the son of Amymone and Poseidon. He was the wrecker of Nauplia.
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In Greek mythology, Nausicaa was a daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, who assisted the shipwrecked Odysseus after discovering him on a beach.
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In Greek mythology, according to Homer, nectar was the drink of the gods of Olympus. It was red- coloured and mixed with water, like wine. Mortals were not permitted to taste it, because to drink it conferred immortality.
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Nemesis was the goddess of punishment.
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Neptune was the Roman name for the Greek god Poseidon. He was the son of Saturn and Rhea, and the brother of Jupiter and Pluto. He is generally represented with a trident in his right hand, a dolphin in his left, and with one of his feet resting on part of a ship; in others in a chariot drawn by sea-horses, with a triton on each side. He was said to preside over horses and the manger.
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In Greek mythology, the Nereid were 50 sea goddesses, or nymphs, who sometimes mated with mortals. Their father was Nereus and their mother was Doris.
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In Greek mythology, Nereus was a sea god. He was a son of Pontys and Gaea.
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In Greek mythology, the Nessus was a centaur. Having attempted to carry off Deinaira, the wife of Hercules, Hercules shot Nessus with a poisoned arrow. While dying, Nessus gave Deinaira his cloak, infected by his blood, and told her it would win Hercules back should he prove unfaithful. The jealous Deinaira gave the cloak to Hercules, who was subsequently poisoned by it and died in agony.
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In Greek mythology, Nestor was the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War.
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Nike was the Greek goddess of victory. She was the daughter of Pallas and Styx. She helped the gods in their battle against the titans and was rewarded by Zeus.
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In Greek mythology, Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, the king of Thebes. She was contemptuous of the goddess Leto for having produced only two children, Apollo and Artemis. She died of grief when her own 12 offspring were killed by them in revenge, and was changed to stone by Zeus.
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Notus was the south wind god.
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A nymph was a higher being than a human, but not immortal like a god. They were respected in mythology.
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Nyx was a goddess of night. She was a daughter of Chaos. She married Erebus.
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