The Greek god of water, especially of the sea; the son of → Pontos and the earth-goddess → Gaia, and father of the → Nereids. Like other sea-gods, he has the gift of prophecy, and is able to change his appearance at...

Nereus, in Greek Mythology, was the eldest son of Pontus (the Sea) and Gaia (the Earth), a Titan who (with Doris) fathered the Nereids, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea.[1] In the Iliad[2] the Old Man of the Sea (άλίός γέρών) is the...