Nesaea

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In Greek mythology, Nesaea, Nesaia or Nisaea (Ancient Greek: Νησαίη Nêsaiê means 'the dweller on islands'[1]) was the "white" Nereid of islands,[2][3] one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[4]

Mythology

Nesaea was one of the Nereids who gathered round Thetis in her sympathetic grief for Achilles' loss of Patroclus.[5]

In some accounts, Nesaea, together with her sisters Thalia, Cymodoce and Spio, was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene[6] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis, Melite and Panopea, were able to help the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.[7]

Legacy

This name is used to describe a genus of plants in the family Lythraceae.

Notes

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References

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  2. Propertius, Elegies 2.26a.16
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  4. Homer, Iliad 18.40; Hesiod, Theogony 249; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  5. Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  6. Virgil, Georgics 4.338
  7. Virgil, Aeneid 5.826