Numa and Egeria [good stuff!!]: http://www.bartleby.com/196/23.html
Same this, different page: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/frazer/gb01301.htm
A tad about Egeria in relation to Numa: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/numa.html
These are the notes that are important [the second
is of particular note]:
"- Water nymph Egeria aided him in his religious
reforms"
"- At his death, Ovid says Egeria flew to Aricia
to grieve for the king, and there was rebuked by Hippolytus for disturbing
the rites of Diana with her lamentations"
Numa's religious changes: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/n/numa_pompilius.html
An illuminated text is found to be about Numa and Egeria [picture!]:
http://www.mnemosyne.org/mn_bits_apollo.html
click on "Apollo?" for the picture of what is most
likely Numa and Egeria
Interesting couple little stories involving Egeria [search the page for the name]: http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/Numa.htm
Similar recounting of one of these stories: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/numa_pom.html
Blurb on Numa Pompilius [said to be pronounced noom pompils]: http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/34149.html
Short blurb on the myth: http://www.site-street.com/members/helenab9/mythology.html#egeria
A little blurb on Numa and his "hydromancy": http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF1-02/Augustine/cog/t40.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/181/225.html
Very interesting description of a fountain named after Egeria.
Might try to fnid photos of it: http://www.mikecampbell.net/publicgardens.htm
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-48250/mythology/e/egeria.html
Interesting info that Egeria was entirely a myth made up by Numa:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_livycal.htm
No other info that I have backs this up, however
Includes a couple interesting poems about her: http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull22.html
Byron, in "Childe Harold," Canto IV., thus alludes
to Egeria and her grotto:
"Here didst thou
dwell, in this enchanted cover,
Egeria! all
thy heavenly bosom beating
For the far
footsteps of thy mortal lover;
The purple midnight
veiled that mystic meeting
With her most
starry canopy;" etc.
Tennyson, also, in his "Palace of Art," gives us a glimpse of the royal lover expecting the interview:
"Holding one
hand against his ear,
To list a footfall
ere he saw
The wood-nymph,
stayed the Tuscan king to hear
Of wisdom and
of law."
This has a lovely painting of water nymphs: http://www.belinus.co.uk/mythology/Fnymphs.htm
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classic/cbarnes/class0.1/opiate.htm
a. Numa claimed to meet with a goddess by night, Egeria
i. told what rites the gods approved
ii. which priests were to do which duty
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-48250/mythology/e/egeria.html
Discussion of the fountain that Egeria and Numa were said to have met:
http://www.underome.com/sub/egeria2.html
Another photo of the Egeria fountain: http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi59b.htm#Ninfeo di Egeria
Mirriam-Webster definition [enter "Egeria", also includes pronunciation]: http://m-w.com
Another dictionary definition: http://www.bartleby.com/65/eg/Egeria.html
Other references to Egeria, not related:
An aquatic plant: http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/mcplnt1k.html
A German bathrobe company: http://www.egeria.de/
A
minor planet: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2001/00013.html