Editing Nereids (section)

==Name==
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It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to [[Homer]] or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the ''[[Iliad]]''.<ref name="Tsantsanoglou-Chantraine-LSJ">{{harvnb|Tsantsanoglou|2015|p=5}}; {{harvnb|Chantraine|1968|p=751}}; {{Cite web |title=Νηρεύς – Ancient Greek (LSJ) |url=https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%8D%CF%82#Greek_Monolingual |website=lsj.gr}}</ref> Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters;<ref>{{harvnb|Beekes|van Beek|2010|pp=ix, xliii, 1017}}; {{harvnb|Tsantsanoglou|2015|p=14}}</ref> while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been suggested.<ref>{{harvnb|Beekes|van Beek|2010|pp=ix, xliii, 1017}}</ref> According to [[Martin Litchfield West]] (1966), Nereus is much less important than his daughters, mentioning that [[Herodotus]] offered "the Nereids, not Nereus, as an example of a divine name not derived from Egypt".<ref>{{harvnb|Litchfield West|1966|p=233}}</ref>

The name of the Nereids has survived in [[modern Greek folklore]] as [[wikt:νεράιδα|νεράιδες]], {{transliteration|el|neráides}} {{gloss|fairies}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Chantraine|1968|p=751}}; {{harvnb|Papachristophorou|1998|p=190}}; {{harvnb|Litchfield West|1966|p=233}}</ref>