Nymphology

Then comes the point of the warning itself, the first instance of Propertius' outlandish nymphology in this poem […]

His criticism, however peremptory, is a just pronouncement on most of these literary incursions into the pretty paganism of nymphology.

[…] Boccaccio not only informs us about the nomenclature of nymphology, distinguishing Nereides, Naiades, Napeae, Anadriades, Hymnides and so forth […]