Thetis
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Thetis is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.
Statue of Thetis with a young Triton, Roman copy
Immortal Thetis with the mortal Peleus in the foreground, Boeotian black-figure dish, c. 500–475 BC - Louvre
Thetis changing into a lioness as she is attacked by Peleus, Attic red-figured kylix by Douris, c. 490 BC from Vulci, Etruria - Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
Thetis dips Achilles in the Styx by Peter Paul Rubens (between 1630 and 1635)
Nereus
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In Greek mythology, Nereus was the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia. Nereus and Doris became the parents of 50 daughters and a son, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea.
Thetis
…with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and a granddaughter of Tethys with whom she sometimes…
Nereus in a frieze of the Pergamon Altar (Berlin).