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Nesaea

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In Greek mythology, Nesaea, Nesaia or Nisaea (Ancient Greek: Νησαίη Nêsaiê means 'the dweller on islands') was the "white" Nereid of islands, one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.

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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.