Nereus

Role: god · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 21

Life events

• The old man of the sea is identified as Nereus, a name associated with Homer and Thetis.(Book 3 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Gythium)
  • With: Homer Thetis
  • “is I discovered Nereus, and this name Homer gave him in the Iliad in the speech of Thetis”

Book 3 · Chapter 21

• with Homer (Homer gave Nereus the name used in the Iliad.) “I discovered Nereus, and this name Homer gave him in the Iliad”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.