The Nereids

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.11 Nereid goddesses

  The sea-nymph daughters of Nereus, whose favor guards a ship; blamed in advance if the voyage goes ill.

• The Heroides §5 Nereids

  Sea-nymphs, daughters of Nereus, whom Oenone begged for Paris's swift and ruinous return.

• The Festivals §5.25 Amphitrite

  The sea-nymphs, daughters of Nereus; Amphitrite is queen among them.

• The Festivals §6.11 Panope

  One of the fifty (here a hundred) Nereids who received Ino and Melicerta unharmed in the sea.

• Metamorphoses §1.6 Nereids

  The sea-nymph daughters of Nereus, who marvel at the drowned cities beneath the waves.

• Metamorphoses §12.356 his daughters

  The fifty sea-nymph daughters of Nereus, among them Achilles's mother Thetis.

• Metamorphoses §14.442 Nereids and nymphs

  Sea-nymphs, daughters of Nereus, here Circe's attendants, who sort her magical herbs instead of spinning wool.