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Sao (mythology)

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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

  1. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 64. 
  2. 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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