A sea-goddess. Doris was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Doris was mostly known as mother of the fifty sea-nymphs called the Nereïds (Nereids, mermaids?), and married to the ancient sea-god, Nereus.
She has no myth of her own; she was possibly just the personification of the sea.
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An ancient sea-god. Nereus was the son of Pontus ("Sea") and Gaea ("Earth"). Nereus was the brother of Phorcys, Eurybia, Thaumas (father of Iris), and the sea monster Ceto. Nereus married an Oceanid named Doris who bore fifty sea-nymphs known as t...
The Nereïds (Nereids), or Νηρεΐδες, were sea nymphs, and were named after their father, Nereus. Their mother was the sea goddess Doris, who was an Oceanid. Below is the list of Nereids found in Hesiod's Theogony: Ploto, Eucrante, Sao, Amphitrite, ...
Titaness of the sea. Tethys was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea. She married her brother Oceanus. She became the mother of all the river gods. She is said to have borne three thousand daughters, known as the Oceanids. The eldest daughter was Styx,...
The Oceanids were daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. There were three thousand daughters of the Titans. Oceanus also had an equal number of sons who were all river gods. Being an Oceanid didn't necessarily mean that the nymph was a water deity. The ...
A sea-goddess. Amphitrite was a daughter either of Nereus and Doris or that of Oceanus and Tethys. In the Roman myths, Amphitrite was known as Salacia. Poseidon pursued her, but Amphitrite fled to the Titan Atlas for protection. Poseidon only marr...
Dione was an obscure goddess. It was not certain whether she was either a Titaness or an Oceanid. None of the writers I had come across said anything about her attributes, but she was most likely the goddess of the sea, mainly because Dione was al...
A personification of the sea. Pontus was born, along with Uranus ("Sky") and Ourea ("Hill"), from Gaea. Pontus literally means the "sea". Pontus lay with his mother Gaea and became the father of Nereus and Phorcys, and also Eurybia, Thaumas (fathe...
Eurynome (Εὐρυνόμη) was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys; she was one of the 3000 Oceanids. By Zeus, Eurynome was the mother of the Graces, and possibly of Asopus, the river god in Sicyon. However, Asopus was usually referred to as her brother, ...
Tethys: Spirit of Water and Mother of Thousands Tethys, Titan of flowing water, was one of the more obscure first-generation Titans in Greek mythology. She didn’t play much of an active role in many myths, but she is remembered for her impressive ...
An ancient sea-god. Phorcys was the son of Pontus and Gaea. Phorcys may have been an important sea-god before the arrival of Poseidon. By his sister Ceto (sea-monster), he became the father of the Gorgons, Graeae, and possibly of Echidna and Ladon.