Nereus
Nereus ( Greek Νηρεύς ) is a sea god in Greek mythology . The pronunciation of the name is [neː'rɔʏ̯s].
myth
Nereus is the eldest son of Pontos and Gaia , his siblings include Keto , Phorkys , Thaumas and Eurybia .
With Doris he became father of the 50 Nereids . He lived in the Aegean Sea with his family . He was wise and had the gift of prophecy .
His place of residence is preferably the Aegean Sea. Heracles , to whom the nymphs of the river Eridanos had betrayed the whereabouts of Nereus, seized it while he was asleep, tied him up while he tried to free himself by transforming himself into various forms, and did not release him again until he revealed to him, where the apples of the Hesperides are to be found.
reception
As a prophetic old man, Nereus also appears in Goethe's Faust on the Classic Walpurgis Night . The tragedy part two .
In the book series The Secrets of Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott , Nereus is a member of the Elder Sex and antagonist of the protagonist Nicholas Flamel .
swell
- Hesiod : Theogony 233-36.
- Library of Apollodor II, 115.
- Horace : Carmen I, 15.
literature
- Leo Bloch : Nereus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 240-250 ( digitized version ).
- María Pipili: Nereus . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VI, Zurich / Munich 1992, pp. 842-837.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ So with a long, stressed e; the eu as in German .
- ^ Gerhard Fink : Who's who in der antiken Mythologie , dtv: Munich, 1999, p. 215.