Greek mythology
Nereus
The truthful old man of the sea who shifts his shape
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Children
- Thetis · Amphitrite
- Group
- Divine
- Appears in
- Birth of the Cosmos
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Nereus is the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, a gentle and prophetic sea-god known as the Old Man of the Sea, father of the fifty Nereids by Doris. He is famed for his unfailing truth and his knowledge of all things hidden in the deep. When Heracles seeks the way to the garden of the Hesperides, he must seize Nereus and hold fast as the god twists through every shape until he yields the answer.
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- Who is Nereus?
- Nereus is the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, a gentle and prophetic sea-god known as the Old Man of the Sea, father of the fifty Nereids by Doris. He is famed for his unfailing truth and his knowledge of all things hidden in the deep.
- Which mythology does Nereus belong to?
- Nereus belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Nereus appear in?
- Nereus appears in Birth of the Cosmos, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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