Nereus
deity figure · 9 works · 11 mentions · 13 anchored passages
the Old Man · the Old man of the Sea · wise Nereus
in the texts
Iphigenia in Aulis
Old sea-god, father of Thetis.
Peleus, who wedded the daughter of Nereus.
The best of rights you have, seeing it is my child you will wed, O son of the sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus.
by Nereus, who begot my mother Thetis, in his home amid the flowing waves, never shall king Agamemnon touch your daughter, no!
Theogony
Eldest son of Sea and Earth, called the Old Man, renowned as truthful, just, gentle, and mindful of righteousness.
And Sea begat Nereus, the eldest of his children, who is true and lies not:
But of the daughters of Nereus, the Old man of the Sea, Psamathe the fair goddess, was loved by Aeacus through golden Aphrodite and bore Phocus.
Andromache
Sea-god, father of Thetis, whose undersea halls are Thetis's home and Peleus's promised eternal dwelling.
Great queen, my honoured wife, from Nereus sprung, all hail!
because of my wedded days with thee now long agone, I Thetis am come from the halls of Nereus.
and thou, daughter of Nereus, neath thy dim grotto, shalt see me grovelling in the dust, a ruined king.
Cyclops
Sea deity and father of sea nymphs, invoked in Silenus's oath
O Cyclops, by thy sire Poseidon, by mighty Triton and Nereus, by Calypso and the daughters of Nereus, by the sacred billows and all the race of fishes!
Helen
Old sea-god, grandfather of Theonoe, from whom she received her gift of prophecy.
for she knew whatever the gods design, both present and to come, having received this honor from her grandfather Nereus.
Orestes
Sea-god referenced as the one whose seer, Glaucus, reported Agamemnon's murder to Menelaus.
when the sailors’ prophet, the truthful god Glaucus, Nereus’ seer, brought the news to me from the waves;
Evagoras
Divine father of Thetis.
Telamon won the meed of valor in an expedition with Heracles against Laomedon, and Peleus, having distinguished himself in the battle with the Centaurs and having won glory in many other hazardous enterprises, wedded Thetis, the daughter of Nereus, he a mortal winning an immortal bride.
Nemean
Sea-god father of the Nereids, including Thetis.
And he arranged a marriage for Peleus with the lovely-bosomed daughter of Nereus, and brought up for her their incomparable child, nurturing his spirit with all fitting things, so that when the blasts of the sea-winds sent him to Troy, he might withstand the spear-clashing war-shout of the Lycians and Phrygians and Dardanians;
Pythian
A wise sea-god, father of Thetis.
yet they are said to have attained the highest prosperity of all mortal men, since they heard the Muses of the golden headbands singing on the mountain and in seven-gated Thebes, when Cadmus married ox-eyed Harmonia, and Peleus married the famous daughter of wise Nereus.