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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

These chosen names typically reflect the genasi’s elemental nature: an air genasi might favor a name like Aelith or Solstice; an earth genasi might choose between Datol or Lazuli; a fire …

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 …