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Short description: Oceanid,Nereid or mother of Euphemus

In Greek mythology, Doris (/ˈdoʊrɪs/; Δωρίς/Δωρίδος means 'bounty') may refer to two related sea divinities:

  • Doris, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus[1] and his sister-wife Tethys.[2] She was the mother of the Nereids[3] and Nerites[1] by the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus.
  • Doris, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the above Oceanid Doris and the sea god Nereus.[4][5] Doris and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.[6]
  • Doris or Oris,[7] one the possible mothers by Poseidon of the Argonaut Euphemus. In some accounts, the latter's mother was variously named as (1) Europe, daughter of the giant Tityos;[8] (2) Mecionice,[9][10] daughter of either Eurotas or Orion[11] or (4) lastly, Macionassa.[12]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Aelian, De Natura Animalium 14.28
  2. Hesiod, Theogony 240 & 350; Apollodorus, 1.2.2
  3. Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  4. Homer, Iliad 18.45; Hesiod, Theogony 250; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  5. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 64. 
  6. Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  7. Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.43
  8. Hyginus, Fabulae 14; Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.45
  9. Hesiod, Megalai Ehoiai fr. 253 (Merkelbach West) in scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.35
  10. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 886
  11. Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.43
  12. John Lempière, Argonautae

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