The
Nereids
The Nereids were Nymphs of
the Sea, daughters of a Sea God, Nereus and an Oceanid, Doris.
"... there were the daughters born to blameless Nereus, fifty of them, all wise in
deeds of perfection..."
Some of them are famous like Amphitrite, Thetis or Eudora... The myth states, for
instance, that when the sea god Poseidon wanted the nereid Amphitrite as his bride, she
declined the honor and hid from him in the Atlantic Ocean. A dolphin, located her, brought
her back to him and he married her. Their son is the fish-man Triton. The dolphin was
awarded a place in heaven : the dolphin constellation.
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