Nysa
place · 7 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
holy Nysa · plain of Nysa · the land of Nysa
in the texts
Protrepticus
Sacred site through which, per Homer, Lycurgus chased the frenzied nurses of Dionysus.
"who once chased the nurses of frenzied Dionysus down through holy Nysa;
Cyclops
The mythological mountain where the Nymphs raised Dionysus, invoked by the Chorus as the place of true Bacchic worship they have lost
nor is it now with Nymphs in Nysa I sing a song of Bacchus, Bacchus!
Iliad
Land through which Lycurgus drove Bacchus' nursing women in Diomedes' cautionary tale.
He it was that drove the nursing women who were in charge of frenzied Bacchus through the land of Nysa, and they flung their thyrsi on the ground as murderous Lycurgus beat them with his oxgoad.
Hymn 1 to Dionysus
A high wooded mountain associated by the hymn with the true secret birth of Dionysus.
There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus
Hymn 2 to Demeter
Nysa is the plain where the earth opens for Hades' seizure of Persephone.
but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the lord, Host of Many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her —the Son of Cronos, He who has many names.
Hymn 26 To Dionysus
Place where the Nymphs foster and nurture Dionysus during his divine childhood.
The rich-haired Nymphs received him in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals.
On Hunting
Nysa, one of the named places used to locate the mountain ranges abroad where lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers and bears are hunted.
Pangaeus and Cittus beyond Macedonia, on Mysian Olympus and Pindus, on Nysa beyond Syria, and in other mountain ranges capable of supporting such animals.