Minthe was a Naiad nymph of the river Cocytus who became mistress to Persephone's husband Hades. Persephone was not slow to notice, and in jealousy she trampled the nymph, killing her and turning her into a mint plant.Strabo, Geographica 8.3.14 Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.728 Alternatively, Persephone tore Minthe to pieces for sleeping with Hades, and it was he who turned his former lover into the sweet-smelling plant.Scholia ad Nicandri Alexipharmaca 375 In another version, Persephone's mother Demeter kills Minthe over the insult done to her daughter.Oppian, Halieutica 3.485
