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In Greek mythology, Nereus (/ ˈ n ɪər i ə s / NEER-ee-əs; Ancient Greek: Νηρεύς, romanized: Nēreús) was the eldest son of Pontus (the Sea) and Gaia , with Pontus himself being a son of Gaia. Nereus and Doris became the parents of 50 daughters (the Nereids) and a son , with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea. [1]
In Greek mythology, Phorcys or Phorcus (/ ˈ f ɔːr s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Φόρκυς) is a primordial sea god, generally cited (first in Hesiod) as the son of Pontus and Gaia (Earth). Classical scholar Karl Kerenyi conflated Phorcys with the similar sea gods Nereus and Proteus. [1]
In Greek mythology, Pontus (/ ˈ p ɒ n t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πόντος, romanized: Póntos, lit. 'Sea') [ 1 ] was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the Greek primordial deities . Pontus was Gaia 's son and has no father; according to the Greek poet Hesiod , he was born without coupling, [ 2 ] though according to Hyginus , Pontus ...
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 ...
Nereus, in Greek Mythology, was the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia. Nereus may also refer to: People. John Villiers, ...
son of Lelex and Cleocharia or of Myles Evenus or Aetolia ; some accounts, a mortal son of Ares and either Demodice or Stratonice who flung himself to the river Lycormas Lycormas: Ganges India * Granicus Troad Haliacmon Macedonia Halys Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus: Paphlygonia and Pontos * Hebrus Lucian
In Greek mythology, Nerites (Greek: Νηρίτης, romanized: Nērítēs) was a minor sea deity, the son of "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris [1] and brother of the fifty Nereids (apparently their only male sibling). He was described as a young boy of stunning beauty.
Nereus and Achilleus in the Via Ardeatina (not to be confused with the church of the same name near the Baths of Caracalla to which the relics of the saints were translated in the 6th century), was erected above the burial site of Nereus and Achilleus and is of the latter part of the 4th century; it is a three-naved basilica, which was ...