Polynoe

Greek deities series
Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Chthonic deities Personified concepts
Water deities
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Nymphs
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In Greek mythology, Polynoe or Poulynoe (Ancient Greek: Πουλυνόη, romanized: Poulynóē) was one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[1]^[2]^[3] Her name means 'giver of reason'^[2] or 'richness of mind, thoughtful'.^[3]

Notes

↑ Hesiod, Theogony 258
1 2 Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
1 2 Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 281. ISBN 9780786471119.

References

Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.

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