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Bookmark or Share- Doris - MythopediaDoris did not have much in the way of an individual mythology. According to Hesiod, she was an Oceanid, one of the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. She eventually married Nereus, the sea god known as the “Old Man of the Sea,” and gave birth to the fifty Nereids, whom Hesiod described as “passing lovely amongst goddesses.”
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- Nereus – MythopediaEtymology. The name “Nereus” (Greek Νηρεύς, translit. Nēreús), which is not necessarily older than the title “Nereid,” may be related to the obscure Greek words νῆρις (nêris, “hollow rock”) and νηρός (nērós, “low-lying”), but it is perhaps more likely to be of pre-Greek origin; Indo-European etymologies have been proposed but have not found widespread ...
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