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Bookmark or Share- Nereids - MythopediaHowever, since Nereus’ only significant act in Greek mythology was fathering the Nereids, it is likely that the term “Nereid” is actually older than the name “Nereus.” If this is the case, then the etymology of the term is obscure; it may be related to the rare Greek words νῆρις ( nêris , “hollow rock”) and νηρός ...
- Amphitrite – MythopediaAccording to the best-known account, recorded in Hesiod’s Theogony, Amphitrite was a daughter of the sea gods Nereus and Doris and thus one of the fifty sea nymphs known as “Nereids.” [5] But according to another tradition, Amphitrite was a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys —a genealogy that served to associate her with the ...
- Pontus – MythopediaPontus, born to Gaia at the beginning of the cosmos, was the Greek primordial god who personified the sea. Together with his mother Gaia, he fathered many ancient sea deities, including Nereus, Phorcys, and Ceto.
- Thetis – MythopediaRelief sculpture of Nereus, the father of the Nereids, from the Pergamon Altar (2nd century BCE) Pergamon Museum, Berlin / Miguel Hermoso Cuesta CC BY-SA 4.0. But there were other, less familiar traditions about Thetis’ parentage too. In one, Thetis was the daughter of the centaur Chiron, not of Nereus.
- Arethusa - MythopediaArethusa, sometimes called a daughter of Nereus and Doris, was a beautiful nymph and the namesake of a famous freshwater spring in the port of Syracuse. She was loved by the river god Alpheus, who chased her across the sea from Peloponnese to the island of Ortygia near Sicily. Desperate to escape, Arethusa was turned into a spring.
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