Galene

"Calm." A personification of the calm sea, and perhaps identical with Galatea, one of the Nereides, is called by Hesiod a daughter of Nereus and Doris.

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References

Sources

  • Hesiod. Theogony, 244.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.