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Myths about the Roman God Nereus
When
Hercules was ordered to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides, he went to the Nymphs inhabiting the grottoes of
Eridanus, to know where he might find them; the Nymphs sent
him to Nereus, who, to elude the inquiry, perpetually varied
his form, till Hercules having seized him, resolved to hold
him till he resumed his original shape, on which he yielded
the desired information. Nereus had, by his sister Doris,
fifty daughters called Nereids. Hesiod highly celebrates him
as a mild and peaceful old man, a lover of justice and
moderation. Nereus and Doris, with their descendants the
Nereids, or Oceaniads, so called from Oceanus, are ranked in
the third class of water deities.
Myths about the Roman God Nereus
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