Nereus

Family: Gods · Role: father of Glaucus · First appears: Euripides, Orestes — Scene 3

Euripides, Orestes — Scene 3

• child: Glaucus “the foreboding Glaucus the son of Nereus”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 4

• child: Thetis “Peleus, and Peleus obtained the daughter of Nereus.”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 5

• younger kin: Achilles “O son of the Goddess, daughter of Nereus, hearing from within thy words, I have come out before the house.”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 6

• child: Thetis (Nereus is identified as Thetis's father.) “By Nereus, nurtured in the damp waves, the father of Thetis, who begat me”

Euripides, Helen — Scene 1

• younger kin: Theonoe “Such privilege she from her grandsire Nereus Inherited.”

Euripides, Helen — Scene 7

• younger kin: Theonoe “For from my birth, Hath justice in this bosom fixed her shrine: And since from Nereus I inherited This temper, Menelaus will I strive To save.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.