Nonacris

Classical and mythographic sources record Nonacris as the eponymous name for a town in Arcadia and as a mythic woman connected to that place. Some accounts name her as the wife of King Lycaon and in certain traditions as the mother of Callisto; other sources treat Nonacris as the local naiad of the town's springs. The toponymic and personal uses of the name are attested in geographic and mythological compilations, which present the figure as part of the local genealogical and place-name landscape of Arcadia rather than as a pan-Hellenic cult figure. By the time of Pausanias the settlement called Nonacris was already in ruins, preserving the name in literary and geographical texts.

The supplied sources do not provide a direct physical description of Nonacris-as-person. Where she is identified as a naiad, classical convention would evoke a youthful female freshwater spirit associated with a spring or stream; however, no specific iconography, attire, or detailed portrayal of Nonacris herself appears in the cited materials. Therefore any detailed visual characteristics beyond general naiad convention must be treated as conjectural.

The sources do not attribute explicit supernatural feats or singular powers to Nonacris. Attested roles in the record are: (1) a toponym — the name of an Arcadian town and its springs; (2) a mythic woman named in genealogical accounts (wife of Lycaon; in some traditions mother of Callisto); and (3) identified in some reference works as the naiad of the springs of Nonacris. These attestations place her among local freshwater-personifications in Greek literary and mythographic tradition but do not ascribe distinct miraculous acts in the surviving excerpts.