Auloniade

Eurydice moribunda (1822), by Charles-François Lebœuf (Museum of the Louvre).

The auloniades (from the classical Greek αύλών aulon, 'valley', 'gorge') were the nymphs that could be found in the pastures of mountains and valleys, often in the company of Pan, the god of shepherds and flocks.

Eurydice, for whom Orpheus traveled to Hades, was an auloniade, who met her death in the valley of the river Peneo (Thessaly) while fleeing from Aristeo, son of the god Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, whose desire to possess her made him step on a poisonous snake.

Fonts

• Orific hymns l.7
• Ovid, Metamorphosis xv.490
• Teocrite, Idilios viii.44, xiii.44
• Virgil, Geórgicas iv.535