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2. Nereids - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Nerites (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Nereus - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Nesaea - Wikipedia

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   Nesaea was one of the Nereids who gathered round Thetis in her sympathetic grief for Achilles' loss of Patroclus. [5]In some accounts, Nesaea, together with her sisters Thalia, Cymodoce and Spio, was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene [6] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis, Melite and Panopea, were able to help the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.

6. Eumolpe (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Eumolpe (Ancient Greek: Εὐμόλπη means 'the fine singer') was one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [1] [2] She may be the same with Eupompe. [3]

7. Eulimene - Wikipedia

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   Eulimene (Ancient Greek: Εὐλιμήνη Eulimenê means 'she of good haven' [1] or 'good-harbour-woman' [2]) was the name of two characters in Greek mythology.. Eulimene, the Nereid of good harborage [3] and one of the 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.

8. Thalia (Nereid) - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Thalia or Thaleia (/ ˈ θ eɪ l i ə / [1] or / θ ə ˈ l aɪ ə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Θάλεια Tháleia "the joyous, the abundance") was one of the fifty Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. Her name was derived from θάλλειν thállein which means "to flourish ...

9. Laomedeia (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Laomedeia or Laomedea (Ancient Greek: Λαομέδεια means 'ruleress of the people' [1] or 'counsel the people, mid-day, noon' [2]) was one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [3]