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Bookmark or Share- Nereids - MythopediaThe Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris. Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities. The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis.
- Nereus – MythopediaNereus married Doris, one of the three thousand Oceanids. Their children were the fifty Nereids, beautiful goddesses of the sea named after their father Nereus. Thetis, the most important of the Nereids, was the mother of Achilles, the greatest hero of the Trojan War. According to one late account, they also had a son named Nerites, a handsome ...
- Thetis – MythopediaThetis was a nymph and goddess of the sea, one of the fifty Nereids born to Nereus and Doris, and the wife of the mortal hero Peleus. When her son Achilles went to fight in the Trojan War, she did everything in her power to prevent his death.
- Doris - MythopediaAs a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, Doris was commonly referred to as an “Oceanid” (Ὠκεανίς, Ōkeanís). Hesiod also described Doris individually as “fair-haired” (εὔκομος, eúkomos)—a very common epithet among Greek goddesses. Attributes. Doris, one of the Oceanids, was a beautiful nymph and a minor goddess of the sea.
- Oceanids - MythopediaSome Oceanids, like Doris or Dione, lived with their divine consorts; others, like Perse, lived with their mortal consorts; one of the Oceanids, Styx, was revered as an Underworld goddess through the dreaded river to which she gave her name; and so on. Charon Ferrying Souls across the River Styx by Alexander Litovchenko (1861). The Styx, one of ...
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