Nereus

Family: unknown · Role: father of Thetis · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Nereus is identified as the father of Thetis, whose marriage is described as taking place in his halls: “in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus.” In To Pythian Apollo, Thetis takes in and cares for Hephaestus with her sisters.

Relationship record

Life events

• Thetis, daughter of Nereus, takes in and cares for Hephaestus.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1 · 📍 the great sea)
  • With: Thetis Hephaestus
  • “But silver-shod Thetis the daughter of Nereus took and cared for him with her sisters”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

• child: thedaughterofnereusfragment58 “For far-seeing Olympian Zeus has given you a wife with many gifts and the blessed gods have brought your marriage fully to pass, and in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus.”
• child: Thetis “For far-seeing Olympian Zeus has given you a wife with many gifts and the blessed gods have brought your marriage fully to pass, and in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus.”

Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

• child: Thetis “But silver-shod Thetis the daughter of Nereus took and cared for him with her sisters;”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.