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French Empire mantel clock (1822) depicting the nereid Galatea velificans

This list is correlated from four sources: Homer's Iliad,[1] Hesiod's Theogony,[2] the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus[3] and the Fabulae of Hyginus.[4] Because of this, the total number of names goes beyond fifty.[5]

List of Nereids
No. Name Sources Notes
Hom. Hes. Apol. Hyg. Others
1Actaea✓✓✓✓
2 Agaue ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
3 Amatheia ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
4Amphinome ✓ ✓ feeds poseidon's flock
5 Amphithoe ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
6 Amphitrite✓✓ The name of an Oceanid[6]
7Apseudes✓✓
8 Arethusa ✓ [7]
9 Asia ✓ [8] The name of an Oceanid[9]
10 Autonoe ✓ ✓ Only mentioned by name
11 Beroe ✓ The name of an Oceanid[10]
12 Callianassa ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
13 Callianeira ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
14 Calypso ✓ The name of an Oceanid[11]
15 Ceto ✓ The name of an Oceanid[12]
16 Clio ✓ The name of an Oceanid[13]
17 Clymene ✓ ✓ [14] The name of an Oceanid[15]appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
18 Cranto ✓
19 Creneis ✓
20 Cydippe ✓ [16] in the train of Cyrene along with her other sisters
21 Cymatolege ✓ Only mentioned by name
22 Cymo ✓ ✓ Only mentioned by name
23 Cymodoce ✓ ✓ ✓ [17]
24 Cymothoe ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ [18] appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
25 Deiopea ✓ [8]
26 Dero ✓ Only mentioned by name
27 Dexamene ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
28 Dione ✓ The name of an Oceanid[19]
29 Doris ✓ ✓ ✓ The name of an Oceanid[20]
30 Doto ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ [21]
31 Drymo ✓ [22] one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene.
32 Dynamene ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
33 Eione ✓ ✓ Only mentioned by name
34 Ephyra ✓ [8] The name of an Oceanid[23]
35 Erato ✓ ✓
36 Euagore ✓ ✓
37 Euarne ✓
38 Eucrante ✓ ✓
39 Eudore ✓ ✓ The name of an Oceanid[24]
40 Eulimene ✓ ✓
41 Eumolpe ✓ only mentioned by name.
42 Eunice ✓ ✓
43 Eupompe ✓ only mentioned by name
44 Eurydice ✓
45 Galene ✓
46 Galatea ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ [21]
47 Glauce ✓ ✓ ✓
48 Glauconome ✓ ✓ only mentioned by name
49 Halie ✓ ✓ ✓
50 Halimede ✓ ✓
51 Hipponoe ✓ ✓
52 Hippothoe ✓ ✓ Only mentioned by name
53 Iaera ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
54 Ianassa ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
55 Ianeira ✓ ✓ The name of an Oceanid[25]appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
56 Ione ✓
57 Iphianassa [26] Only mentioned by name
58 Laomedeia ✓ Only mentioned by name
59 Leiagore ✓ Only mentioned by name
60 Leucothoe ✓
61 Ligea ✓ [22]
62 Limnoreia ✓ ✓ ✓
63 Lycorias ✓ [27]
64 Lysianassa ✓ ✓
65 Maera ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
66 Melite ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ [28] The name of an Oceanid[29]
67 Menippe ✓ The name of an Oceanid[30]
68 Nausithoe ✓
69 Nemertes ✓ ✓ ✓
70 Neomeris ✓
71 Nesaea ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ [31]
72 Neso ✓ Only mentioned by name
73 Opis ✓ [32]
74 Oreithyia ✓ ✓ appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.
75 Panope ✓ ✓ ✓ [21]
76 Panopea ✓ ✓ [28]
77 Pasithea ✓ Only mentioned by name
78 Pherusa ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.
79 Phyllodoce ✓ [22]
80 Plexaure ✓ The name of an Oceanid[33]
81 Ploto ✓ Only mentioned by name
82 Polynoe ✓
83 Polynome ✓ Only mentioned by name
84 Pontomedusa ✓ Only mentioned by name
85 Pontoporeia ✓ Only mentioned by name
86 Pronoe ✓ Only mentioned by name
87 Proto ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
88 Protomedeia ✓ Only mentioned by name
89 Psamathe ✓ ✓
90 Sao ✓ ✓ means 'the rescuer',only mentioned by name
91 Speio ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ [31] ppear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus
92 Thaleia ✓ ✓ [31]
93 Themisto ✓ Only mentioned by name
94 Thetis ✓ ✓ ✓ [28]
95 Thoe ✓ ✓ ✓ The name of an Oceanid[34]
96 Xantho ✓ [22] The name of an Oceanid[35]
Total 34 50 45 47
  1. ^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  2. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 240-262
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  4. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  5. ^ Apollodorus, 1.2.2 & 1.4.5
  6. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.346
  7. ^ a b c Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  8. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Apollodorus, 1.2.2
  9. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.341; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153
  10. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423
  11. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355
  12. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.341
  13. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.345
  14. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Hyginus, Fabulae 156; Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.359
  15. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.339
  16. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.338; Aeneid 5.826; Statius, Silvae 2.2.20
  17. ^ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.605; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.394 ff.
  18. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361
  19. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Apollodorus, 1.2.2
  20. ^ a b c Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.130 ff.
  21. ^ a b c d Virgil, Georgics 4.336
  22. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 275.6; Eumelus, fr. 1 Fowler (apud Pausanias, 2.1.1)
  23. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361
  24. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423
  25. ^ Lucian, Dialogi Marini 14
  26. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.339
  27. ^ a b c Virgil, Aeneid 5.825
  28. ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
  29. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95), except where otherwise indicated.
  30. ^ a b c Virgil, Georgics 4.338; Aeneid 5.826
  31. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.343
  32. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 353
  33. ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423
  34. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361
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