Eunice (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Eunice (Ancient Greek: Εὐνίκη Eunikê means 'she of happy victory'[1]) was the "rosy-armed" Nereid,[2] sea-nymph daughter of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[3] She is described as leaping and dancing from wave to wave.[4]

Notes

  1. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
  2. Hesiod, Theogony 246
  3. Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  4. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 131. ISBN 9780786471119.

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