Cymodoce (Nereid)

In Greek mythology, Cymodoce (Ancient Greek: Κυμοδόκη Kymodokê means 'wave-receiver or wave-gatherer'[1]) was the one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[2] She was briefly mentioned in Statius' Silvae.[3]
Mythology

Cymodoce and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.[4] She was also said to be a companion of Aphrodite.[citation needed]

In some accounts, Cymodoce, together with her sisters Thalia, Nesaea and Spio, was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene[5] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis, Melite and Panopea, were able to help the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.[6]
Notes

Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 55.
Homer, Iliad 18.39; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
Statius, Silvae 2.2.20
Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
Virgil, Georgics 4.338

Virgil, Aeneid 5.826

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Greek Mythology

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