Nemertes (mythology)

Nereid of Greek mythology

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In Greek mythology, Nemertes (Ancient Greek: Νημερτής Nêmertês means 'the unerring' or 'truthful'^[1] or 'the giver'^[2]) was the Nereid of unerring (good council)^[2] and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[3] Like her sister Apseudes, she resembles her immortal father for knowing and telling the truth.^[4] Nimertis^[5] may be the same with another Nereid Neomeris.^[6]

Mythology

Nemertes and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.^[7]

Notes

^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
^ ^a ^b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 246. ISBN 9780786471119.
^ Hesiod, Theogony 262; Homer, Iliad 18.46
^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 65–66.
^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero; Staveren)
^ Apollodorus, 1.2.7
^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.