CLASS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Oceanid, Cyclops, Wiht
15 Mar 2014
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Poseidon - best known as great god of waters in general, the sea in particular. Was not the first or only such divinity. Pontus (the sea) had been produced first by ge in the initial stages of creation. Two of the titans, oceanus and tethys, bore thousands of children, the oceanids. Pontus mated with his mother, ge, and begat nereus, the endlest of his children, who was gentle, wise, and true, an old man of the sea with the gift of prophecy. Nereus mated with an oceanid named doris, who bore him 50 daughters: the nereids. mermaids. Three notable nereids were thetis, galatea, and amphitrite. Thetis was the one prometheus knew was destined to bear a son mighter than his father, so zeus had to not sleep with her. She married instead a mortal named peleus. Thetis could shape shift and made it very hard for peleus.
