In Greek mythology, Alseids (; ) were who inhabited groves.[Grimal, s.v. Nymphs, p. 313; Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Nymphs, p. 1056.]
They are mentioned by Apollonius of Rhodes,[Larson, p. 281 n. 31.] who relates that the woman Cleite hangs herself after the death of her husband, Cyzicus, who was killed by the hero Jason.[Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.1053–1065. On Jason's killing of Cyzicus, see Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Doliones.] Upon her suicide:[Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.1065–1069.]
A scholia on the Iliad (from the A family of scholia)[Erbse, p. 3.] states explicitly that "Alseids" is the name given to nymphs who occupy groves.[Scholia A on Homer's Iliad, 20.8 (Dindorf, p. 193).]
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Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. . Harvard University Press.
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Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875. Internet Archive. Perseus Digital Library.
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Hartmut Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977. . .
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Pierre Grimal, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Malden, Oxford, and Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, 1986. . Internet Archive.
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Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001. .
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Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. . Internet Archive.
