Sao (Mythology)

Short description: Nereid of Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, Sao (Ancient Greek: Σαώ Saô means 'the rescuer'^[1]) was one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[2]

Note

↑ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 64.
↑ Hesiod, Theogony 243; Apollodorus, 1.2.7

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN:0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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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[1] Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 64.

[2] Hesiod, Theogony 243; Apollodorus, 1.2.7