Caïssa
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dryad
- Part of
- Greek mythology
- Gender
- female
- Creator
- Marco Girolamo Vida
- Image
- Caissa.jpg
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- domain of saint or deity
- chess
- present in work
- The Game of Chess
- worshipped by
- Greek mythology
- Commons category
- Caissa
- name in native language
- Caissa
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Vida's poem
- William Jones's poem
- Modern use
- References
- External links
thumb|An illustration of William Jones (philologist)|Jones's Caïssa, author unknown
Caïssa is a fictional (anachronistic) Thracian dryad portrayed as the goddess of chess. The concept of a dryad of chess was first mentioned during the Renaissance by Italian poet Hieronymus Vida.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caïssa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.