Opis, Oupis or Upis, a
Hyperborean nymph, daughter of the North Wind
Boreas.[5] Together with
Arge, she carried an offering which had been vowed for the birth of
Apollo and
Artemis, to
Eileithyia, at
Delos.[6] Later on, Opis with her sisters
Hecaerge (Arge) and Loxo, they became the handmaidens of the goddess.[7]Orion tried to rape her but the giant was shot by Artemis.[8] In later myths, Opis was called by the goddess
Diana (Artemis) to avenge the death of the
Amazon-like female warrior
Camilla. Diana gave Opis magical weapons for revenge on Camilla's killer, the
EtruscanArruns. Opis saw and lamented Camilla's death, and slayed Arruns with an arrow in revenge as directed by Diana.[9][10]
Upis, the name of a mythical being said to have reared Artemis.[11] She may be the same to above nymph.
^This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics4.343 which suggests that Opis was a
naiad, more likely an
Oceanid, rather than a Nereid.
Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
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Opis, Oupis or Upis, a
Hyperborean nymph, daughter of the North Wind
Boreas.[5] Together with
Arge, she carried an offering which had been vowed for the birth of
Apollo and
Artemis, to
Eileithyia, at
Delos.[6] Later on, Opis with her sisters
Hecaerge (Arge) and Loxo, they became the handmaidens of the goddess.[7]Orion tried to rape her but the giant was shot by Artemis.[8] In later myths, Opis was called by the goddess
Diana (Artemis) to avenge the death of the
Amazon-like female warrior
Camilla. Diana gave Opis magical weapons for revenge on Camilla's killer, the
EtruscanArruns. Opis saw and lamented Camilla's death, and slayed Arruns with an arrow in revenge as directed by Diana.[9][10]
Upis, the name of a mythical being said to have reared Artemis.[11] She may be the same to above nymph.
^This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics4.343 which suggests that Opis was a
naiad, more likely an
Oceanid, rather than a Nereid.
Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.