在希腊神话中，门塔(Mentha，也称 Minthe、Mintha 或 Minthe;希腊语：Μίνθη or Μένθη)是与科赛特斯(Cocytus)河有关的那伊阿得斯，即水仙女。她被哈迪斯的“黄金战车所迷惑，他们之间的私通被佩耳塞福涅(Persephone)发现，这位冥后非常生气，于是把门塔变成了一种醇香刺鼻的植物-薄荷，有些人称之为“hedyosmus”。“menthe”一词中的“nth”字缀是引自前希腊语中典型的类词：比较“Akantha”(茛苕）、“labyrinth”(迷宫)、“Corinth”(科林斯)等。

In Greek mythology, Minthe (also Menthe, Mintha or Mentha; Greek:Μίνθη or Μένθη) was a naiad associated with the river Cocytus. She was dazzled by Hades and was about to seduce him had not Queen Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe, in the words of Strabo's account, "into the garden mint, which some call hedyosmon (lit. 'sweet-smelling')". The –nth– element in menthe is characteristic of a class of words borrowed from a pre-Greek language: compare acanthus, labyrinth, Corinth, etc..