InGreek mythology,Alseids (/ælˈsiːɪdz/;Ancient Greek:Ἀλσηΐδες,romanized: Alsēḯdes) werenymphs who inhabitedgroves.^[1]

They are mentioned byApollonius of Rhodes,^[2] who relates that the womanCleite hangs herself after the death of her husband,Cyzicus, who was killed by the heroJason.^[3] Upon her suicide:^[4]

Even the woodland nymphs themselves lamented her death, and from all the tears they shed for her from their eyes to the ground, the goddesses made a spring, which they call Cleite, the famous name of the unfortunate bride.

Ascholium on theIliad (from the A family of scholia)^[5] states explicitly that "Alseids" is the name given to nymphs who occupy groves.^[6]

• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race,Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press, 2009.ISBN 978-0-674-99630-4.Harvard University Press.
• Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm,Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, Volume II, Oxford, E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1875.Internet Archive.Perseus Digital Library.
• Erbse, Hartmut,Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (Scholia vetera): Volumen V Scholia ad libros Y - Ω continens, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1977.ISBN 9783110069112.doi:10.1515/9783110850222.
• Grimal, Pierre,The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Malden, Oxford, and Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, 1986.ISBN 0631201025.Internet Archive.
• Larson, Jennifer,Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford University Press, 2001.ISBN 978-0-19-512294-7.
• Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited bySimon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.ISBN 0198606419.Internet Archive.

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