Nereus

Family: Greek · Role: god · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Nereus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Nereus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Nereus)

Nereus was born to Pontus and Earth. With Doris, the daughter of Ocean, he became the parent of the Nereids.

Their daughters were Cymothoe, Spio, Glauconome, Nausithoe, Halie, Erato, Sao, Amphitrite, Eunice, Thetis, Eulimene, Agave, Eudore, Doto, Pherusa, Galatea, Actaea, Pontomedusa, Hippothoe, Lysianassa, Cymo, Eione, Halimede, Plexaure, Eucrante, Proto, Calypso, Panope, Cranto, Neomeris, Hipponoe, Ianira, Polynome, Autonoe, Melite, Dione, Nesaea, Dero, Evagore, Psamathe, Eumolpe, Ione, Dynamene, Ceto, and Limnoria. Hesiod also names Ploto among the children of Nereus and Doris.

Relationship record

Life events

• Nereus and Doris produced the Nereids.(Apollodorus, Library 1.2)
  • With: Doris Cymothoe Spio Glauconome Nausithoe Halie Erato Sao Thetis Eulimene Galatea Calypso Psamathe Dynamene Limnoria
  • “To Nereus and Doris were born the Nereids, whose names are Cymothoe, Spio, Glauconome, Nausithoe, Halie, Erato, Sao, Amphitrite, Eunice, Thetis, Eulimene, Agave, Eudore, Doto, Pherusa, Galatea, Actaea, Pontomedusa, Hippothoe, Lysianassa, Cymo, Eione, Halimede, Plexaure, Eucrante, Proto, Calypso, Panope, Cranto, Neomeris, Hipponoe, Ianira, Polynome, Autonoe, Melite, Dione, Nesaea, Dero, Evagore, Psamathe, Eumolpe, Ione, Dynamene, Ceto, and Limnoria.”