Nereus – Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Etymology. 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 ...
Doris - Mythopedia
2023年8月1日 · Doris 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 - Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · However, 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 – Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Relief 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 – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Pontus, 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.
Arethusa - Mythopedia
2023年2月14日 · Arethusa, 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.
Psamathe - Mythopedia
2023年9月18日 · Psamathe’s father was Nereus, the sea god known as the “Old Man of the Sea,” who was a child of Gaia and Pontus. Her mother was Doris, one of the three thousand Oceanids born to the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Psamathe and her forty-nine sisters were collectively known as the “Nereids,” after their father Nereus.
Amphitrite – Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · According 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 ...
Oceanids - Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Dione, another consort of Zeus, was in some traditions called the mother of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Doris married the sea god Nereus and gave birth to the fifty Nereids. And Perse (sometimes called Perseis) married the sun god Helios and may have been the mother of Aeetes and Circe. Mythology The Oceanids and the Gods
Phorcys - Mythopedia
2023年9月6日 · His siblings were the sea deities Nereus, Thaumas, Eurybia, and Ceto. But there were other versions of Phorcys’ genealogy, too. According to one early account, Phorcys was the son of Eidothea, the daughter of the sea god Proteus.