classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Roman together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks

Graeco-Roman deity, Greco-Roman deity - a deity of classical mythology

Echo - (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained

Atlantides, Hesperides - (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera

Hyades - (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward

Oread - (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs

Pleiades - (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion

Asterope, Sterope - (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades

water nymph - (Greek mythology) any nymph of the water

Daphne - (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo

dryad, wood nymph - a deity or nymph of the woods

Salmacis - nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body

larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"