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

  1. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
  2. 1 2 Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 246. ISBN 9780786471119.
  3. Hesiod, Theogony 262; Homer, Iliad 18.46
  4. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 65–66.
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero; Staveren)
  6. Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  7. Homer, Iliad 18.39-51

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