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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30936" /> == | |||
<p> in | <p> in Greek mythology, was a nymph, the daughter of the river-god Achelouns, who lived near Delphi, and from whom the Castalian spring has its name. She is said to have been very beautiful, and loved by Apollo, and to escape his attentions she threw herself into the spring. [[Thereupon]] the god selected this place as his favorite spot, ordered a temple to be built, and endowed the spring with animating virtues, so that whoever drank from it would become a poet. From this spring, as also from the spring Cassotis, the Pythian prophetess drank before she took the tripod. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_70488" /> == | |||
<p> A fountain at the foot of [[Parnassus]] sacred to the Muses; named after a nymph, who drowned herself in it to escape Apollo. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_30936"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/castalia Castalia from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_30936"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/castalia Castalia from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_70488"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/castalia Castalia from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 09:42, 15 October 2021
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
in Greek mythology, was a nymph, the daughter of the river-god Achelouns, who lived near Delphi, and from whom the Castalian spring has its name. She is said to have been very beautiful, and loved by Apollo, and to escape his attentions she threw herself into the spring. Thereupon the god selected this place as his favorite spot, ordered a temple to be built, and endowed the spring with animating virtues, so that whoever drank from it would become a poet. From this spring, as also from the spring Cassotis, the Pythian prophetess drank before she took the tripod.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses; named after a nymph, who drowned herself in it to escape Apollo.
