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In the second version, Nerites was loved by Poseidon and answered his feelings. Their love was the origin of mutual love ( Anteros ). Poseidon also made Nerites his charioteer; the boy drove the chariot astonishingly fast, to the admiration of various sea creatures.
Poseidon (/ p ə ˈ s aɪ d ən, p ɒ-, p ... From the love between Poseidon and Nerites was born Anteros, mutual love. [207] Other male lovers included Pelops and ...
In a late appearance, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climacteric battle of Issus (333 BC), and resorted to prayers, "calling on Thetis, Nereus and the Nereids, nymphs of the sea, and invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves ...
It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to Homer or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the Iliad. [3] Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters; [4] while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been ...
Proteus (Πρωτεύς), a shape-shifting, prophetic old sea god, and the herdsman of Poseidon's seals; Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν), king of the sea and lord of the sea gods; also god of rivers, flood and drought, earthquakes, and horses; Sangarius (Σαγγάριος), a river-god
She was the mother of the Nereids [3] and Nerites [1] by the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus. Doris, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the above Oceanid Doris and the sea god Nereus. [4] [5] Doris and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain companion Patroclus. [6]
Nerites: Sea snail: Aphrodite or Helios The only son of the sea gods Nereus and Doris who was turned into a shellfish. In one version, it was Aphrodite who changed him, because Nerites refused to follow her out of the sea, and in another it was Helios for unclear reasons (perhaps he too was rejected by Nerites). Ocyrhoe: Horse: The gods (Zeus)
Doris riding a hippocampus and carrying two torches to light the wedding cortege of Poseidon and Amphitrite, base of a sculpted group, end 2nd century BC, Munich Glyptothek museum (Inv. 239). Detail of Floor Mosaic from a Roman Villa named the House of Aion, ca. mid 4th Century CE at Paphos Archaeological Park , Paphos , Cyprus , depicting ...