2023年3月11日 · The 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.

2023年3月8日 · Thetis, like her Nereid sisters, was a beautiful sea nymph. She was honored as a goddess and was immortal. Except for a brief period after her marriage to the mortal Peleus—during which she lived in Peleus’ palace in Phthia in northern Greece—Thetis lived with the other Nereids far below the waves, in the luxurious grotto of Nereus.

2023年9月18日 · Psamathe was a Nereid—one of the fifty sea nymphs born to the gods Nereus and Doris. With her two consorts, Aeacus and Proteus, she had several children. A famous shapeshifter, Psamathe once turned herself into a seal to …

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 ...

2023年3月11日 · Abas was a son of Poseidon and the Nereid Arethusa. He was a king on the island of Euboea and gave his name to the Abantes tribe. His grandson Elephenor led the Abantes during the Trojan War.

2023年3月8日 · As a Nereid and the wife of Poseidon, Amphitrite was the queen of the sea. She was tremendously powerful, said to be able to calm the waves and even the wind. Amphitrite was quite popular in ancient art. She could be shown with her husband Poseidon or on her own.

2023年8月31日 · The Nereid Amphitrite, for example, was the wife of Poseidon himself, the Olympian god of the sea; the Oceanid Metis was the second wife of Zeus, king of the gods; another Oceanid, Doris, married the Titan Oceanus and became the mother of the fifty Nereids.

2023年2月14日 · Arethusa was a nymph, sometimes numbered among the daughters of the sea god Nereus. Her myth describes how she fled to Syracuse to escape the undesired advances of the river god Alpheus, finally transforming into a freshwater spring.

2023年3月22日 · Polyphemus was a son of Poseidon and one of the feared Sicilian Cyclopes. He was eventually blinded by Odysseus.

2023年8月17日 · Other sources identified Aeetes’ wife as either Eurylyte, Hecate (a mortal witch, not the Underworld goddess), a Nereid named Neaera, Clytie, or Hypsea. In the standard tradition, Aeetes had three children (not necessarily by the same mother).