Amphithoe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Amphithoë (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιθόη means 'she who moves swiftly around' or 'the shouter'^[1]) was the Nereid of sea currents^[1] and thus a daughter of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[2]^[3] She was probably the same as Amphitrite.^[4]

Mythology

Amphithoe and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.^[5]

^ ^a ^b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 27. ISBN 9780786471119.
^ Homer, Iliad 18.42
^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^ These two accounts, Hesiod, Theogony 244 & 254 and Apollodorus, 1.2.7, did not mention any account regarding Amphithoe.
^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51

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