Nemea (mythology)

In Greek mythology Nemea (in Greek νεμέα) is a Náyade Nymph, daughter of the river god Asopo. They say that he gave his name to the homonym country of Nemea, a region of the argolid located between Cleonas and Fliunte. It is not specified who Nemea's mother was, although Asopo's wife is usually the Metope nymph. He tells us that Nemea was the daughter of Zeus and Selene. In other sources to the daughter of Zeus and Selene is called Pandía or Herse.

Pausanias tells us that the fliasios made offerings to Zeus, the daughters of Asopo and Asopo himself, and the images are ordered as follows: Nemea is the first of his sisters, after her Zeus is taking Egina and next to Egina is Harpina - with her, according to the legends of the eleos and the fliasios, Ares joined and she was the mother of Enmao, who reigned in Pisa - and after her Corcira, and next to her Tebe, and finally Asopo. It is said about Corcira that Posidon joined her. The same sang Píndaro with respect to Tebe and Zeus.

Plutarch describes Nemea as the mere personification of the city. He says that when Aristofonte painted a Nemea with Alcibiades sitting in his arms, everyone came to contemplate him pleased.