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Encyclopedia > Doris (mythology)

Doris was a sea nymph in Greek mythology, whose name represented the bounty of the sea. She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and the wife of Nereus. She was mother to the fifty Nereids, including Thetis and Amphitrite. For other uses of nymph see Nymph (disambiguation). ... Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. ... Tethys can refer to: Tethys the titaness of Greek mythology Tethys the natural satellite of Saturn The Tethys Ocean existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia before the opening of the Atlantic Ocean on Earth. ... Nereus: in Greek Mythology, eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, the Sea and the Earth. ... In Greek mythology, the Nereids (NEER-ee-eds) are sea nymphs, the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris. ... This article is about the Greek nymph. ... Mosaic from Herculaneum depicting Neptune and Amphitrite Amphitrite, in ancient Greek mythology, was a sea-goddess, and wife of Poseidon, identified with the Salacia the wife of Neptune in Roman mythology. ...


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DORIS : Oceanid nymph ; Greek mythology (579 words)
DORIS was the Okeanid nymph wife of the sea-god Nereus, and the mother of the fifty Nereides.
DORIS (Dôris), a daughter of Oceanus and Thetis, and the wife of Nereus, by whom she became the mother of the Nereides.
"Arise [Nereides] from the glassy caverns of foam-encompassing Doris."
Doris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (232 words)
In Greek mythology, Doris ("bountiful") was an Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
In geography and history, Doris was a region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians.
Doris was a Swedish pop group between 1966 and a few years into the 1970s.
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