Historiae Romanorum

Pontus

Pontus, the personification of the sea, was an original child of Gaia.  Along with his brothers Uranus and Ourea, these first beings formed the early Greek concept of their world.  Pontus is primarily important for his children: Nereus, Thaumus, Phorcys and Ceto.

Nereus took for himself a wife, Doris the daughter of Oceanus, and fathered the Nereids, nymphs of great beauty.  Thaumus married Electra and fathered Iris and the Harpies.  Together, Phorcys and Ceto bore the Graiae, the Gorgons and Echidna.

Source(s):

1. Hesiod.  Theogeny.

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