Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Deity · Collective

Nereids

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Canonical name
Nereids
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Collective
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Aliases

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sea-nymphs

Descriptive reference · Direct

sea-goddesses

Alternative name · Direct

Location presence

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crystal cave1 observation
·Direct

The Nereids gather in and fill the crystal cave.

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“with other Nereids who dwell in the depths of the sea. The crystal cave was filled with their multitude”
plain of Troy1 observation
·Direct

The Nereids follow Thetis to the plain of Troy and come onto its sands.

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“She left the cave as she spoke, while the others followed weeping after, and the waves opened a path before them. When they reached the rich plain of Troy, they came up out of the sea in a long line on to the sands”
tents and ships of the Myrmidons1 observation
·Direct

The Nereids arrive where the Myrmidon ships and Achilles’s tents are drawn up.

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“When they reached the rich plain of Troy, they came up out of the sea in a long line on to the sands, at the place where the ships of the Myrmidons were drawn up in close order round the tents of Achilles. His mother went up to him as he lay groaning”

Claims

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·Direct

The Nereids gather around Thetis in the crystal cave and beat their breasts while she leads their lament.

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“all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her. There were Glauce, Thalia and Cymodoce, Nesaia, Speo, Thoe and dark-eyed Halie, Cymothoe, Actaea and Limnorea, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira, Doris, Panope, and the famous sea-nymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa. There were also Clymene, Ianeira and Ianassa, Maera, Oreithuia and Amatheia of the lovely locks, with other Nereids who dwell in the depths of the sea. The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament”
·Direct

The Nereids follow Thetis weeping, travel through the path opened by the waves, and emerge from the sea onto the sands in a long line.

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“the others followed weeping after, and the waves opened a path before them. When they reached the rich plain of Troy, they came up out of the sea in a long line on to the sands”
·Direct

The Nereids are instructed to dive into the sea and tell Thetis’s father everything.

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“Dive into the bosom of the sea and go to the house of the old sea-god my father. Tell him everything”
·Direct

The Nereids immediately dive beneath the waves in obedience to Thetis’s direction.

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“they dived forthwith beneath the waves”
·Direct

The sea-goddesses gather around grieving Thetis in a great cave.

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“She found Thetis sitting in a great cave with the other sea-goddesses gathered round her; there she sat in the midst of them”

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·Direct
“all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her. There were Glauce, Thalia and Cymodoce, Nesaia, Speo, Thoe and dark-eyed Halie, Cymothoe, Actaea and Limnorea, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira, Doris, Panope, and the famous sea-nymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa. There were also Clymene, Ianeira and Ianassa, Maera, Oreithuia and Amatheia of the lovely locks, with other Nereids who dwell in the depths of the sea.”
·Direct
“the other sea-goddesses gathered round her”

Passage preview

Book 18 · Passage 3

A dark cloud of grief fell upon Achilles as he listened. He filled both hands with dust from off the ground, and poured it over his head, disfiguring his comely face, and letting the refuse settle over his shirt so fair and new. He flung himself down all huge and hugely at full length, and tore his hair with his hands. The bondswomen whom Achilles and Patroclus had taken captive screamed aloud for grief, beating their breasts, and with their limbs failing them for sorrow. Antilochus bent over him the while, weeping and holding both his hands as he lay groaning for he feared that he might plunge a knife into his own throat. Then Achilles gave a loud cry and his mother heard him as she was sitting in the depths of the sea by the old man her father, whereon she screamed, and all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her. There were Glauce, Thalia and Cymodoce, Nesaia, Speo, Thoe and dark-eyed Halie, Cymothoe, Actaea and Limnorea, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira, Doris, Panope, and the famous sea-nymph Galatea, Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa. There were also Clymene, Ianeira and Ianassa, Maera, Oreithuia and Amatheia of the lovely locks, with other Nereids who dwell in the depths of the sea. The crystal cave was filled with their multitude and they all beat their breasts while Thetis led them in their lament.