In
Greek mythology, Amatheia (
Ancient Greek: Ἀμάθεια means 'rears, nurses' or 'she is sparkling water'
) was the "fair-tressed"
Nereid and was described to have "azure locks luxuriant" or as some translations put it "long, heavy hair".
As one of these 50 sea-
nymphs, she was the daughter of the '
Old Man of the Sea'
Nereus and the
Oceanid
In Greek mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (; grc, Ὠκεανίδες, Ōkeanídes, pl. of grc, Ὠκεανίς, Ōkeanís, label=none) are the nymphs who were the three thousand (a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable") daughters o ...
Doris.
Variations of her names were Æmathia, Amathea and Amathia
[Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' Preface (Latin ed. Bunte)] which means "queen of voice".
Mythology
Amatheia and her other sisters appeared to
Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of
Achilles for his slain friend
Patroclus
In Greek mythology, as recorded in Homer's ''Iliad'', Patroclus (pronunciation variable but generally ; grc, Πάτροκλος, Pátroklos, glory of the father) was a childhood friend, close wartime companion, and the presumed (by some later a ...
.
[Homer, ''Iliad']
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Notes
References
* Gaius Julius Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus (; 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' ''De Grammatic ...
, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Homer, ''The Iliad'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
Nereids
Deities in the Iliad
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