Thriae
Θριαί
(Θριαί) the name of three prophetic nymphs on Mount Parnassus, by whom Apollo was reared, and who were believed to have invented the art of prophecy by means of little stones (θριαί), which were thrown into an urn. (Hom. Hymn. in Merc. 552; Schol. ad Callim. Hymn. in Apoll. 45; comp. Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. 814.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.