g*****a A Nereid (sea nymph). One of the 50
daughters of Nereus and Doris. Classical sourc-
es are Apollodorus’s Library (1.2.7), Hesiod’s
Theogony (250), Homer’s Iliad (18.45),
Lucian’s Dialogues of the Sea-Gods (1), Ovid’s
Metamorphoses (thirteen.738–897), Philostratus’s
Imagines (2.18), and Theocritus’s Idylls (eleven).
According to Theocritus, the Cyclops Poly-
phemus fell in love with g*****a. He attempted
to woo her with love songs, however g*****a was
in love with Acis, son of Faynus (see Pan), and
did now not respond to his overtures. Philostratus’s
Imagines describes a portray of the parable. In a
panorama of harvesting Cyclopes, a lovelorn
Polyphemus, pan pipes below his arm, a unmarried
bushy eyebrow crowning his unmarried eye atop
a huge nostril, wa
