In Greek mythology, Opis (Ancient Greek: Ὦπις or Ὦπιν means 'sighting') or Upis (Οὖπις) may refer to the following characters:

Feminine

Masculine

  • Upis or Upisis, father of the "third" Artemis by Glauce.[13]

Surname

  • Oupis or Upis, a surname of Artemis, as the goddess assisting women in childbirth.[14]
  • Upis, a surname of Nemesis at Rhamnous, in the remote northernmost deme of Attica.[15]

Notes

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae 139
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  3. Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  4. This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.343 which suggests that Opis was a naiad, more likely an Oceanid, rather than a Nereid.
  5. Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 292
  6. Herodotus, 4.35; Pausanias, 1.43.4 & 5.7.8
  7. Nonnus, 48.331
  8. Apollodorus, 1.4.5
  9. Virgil: His life and times by Peter Levi, Duckworth, 1998
  10. Virgil, Aeneid 11.533 & 11.863
  11. Scholiast on Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis
  12. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  13. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.23
  14. Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 240
  15. Pausanias, 1.33.2

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