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Actaea

Goddess

In Greek mythology, Actaeä or Aktaia (; Ancient Greek: Ἀκταία, romanized: Aktaía, lit. 'the dweller on coasts') may refer to the following figures: Actaea or Actea, the Nereid of rocky shore. These 50 sea-nymphs are daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.

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Actaea. 1868 Frederic Leighton - Actaea
1868 Frederic Leighton - Actaea · Frederic LeightonImage source ↗Public domain

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“Nesaea and Speio and Thoë and ox-eyed Halië, and Cymothoë and Actaeä and Limnoreia, and Melite and Iaera and Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto and Pherousa and Dynamene, and Dexamene and Amphinone and Callianeira,”
Il. 18.40–44

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Reference material remains distinct from the poem’s assertions. Characters who share a name retain separate pages.