Cassiopeia boasted that she surpassed the Nereids in beauty, provoking their outrage. The sea nymphs appealed to Poseidon to avenge the insult against them.
The Nereids were fifty sea nymphs born to the Old Man of the Sea Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, dwelling in their father's golden palace beneath the Aegean and attending Poseidon's marine court.
Cassiopeia's boast that Andromeda surpassed the Nereids in beauty provoked their outrage and that of their patron Poseidon, who sent the sea monster Cetus to punish the Ethiopian kingdom.
The Nereids' outrage at Cassiopeia's boast prompted Poseidon to send the sea monster Cetus against Aethiopia. The offended sea nymphs were the ultimate cause of Andromeda's ordeal.
Doris was the mother of the Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs who served as attendants in Poseidon's underwater court. Through her daughters, particularly Amphitrite who became Poseidon's queen, Doris's lineage was intimately connected to the lord of the seas.
The fifty Nereids took their collective name from their father Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea. They inherited his benevolent nature and gift of prophecy.
The Nereids are Pontus's granddaughters through his eldest son Nereus. The fifty sea-nymphs who inhabit the Mediterranean descend from the primordial sea that Pontus personifies.
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