A Nereid daughter of Nereus and Doris, named in Hesiod's catalogue of the fifty sea-sisters — a genealogical list-node with no independent episode in our sources.1
Hesiod numbers Actaea among the passing lovely daughters born to blameless Nereus and rich-haired Doris, Ocean's daughter — set in the long roll between Nisaea and Protomedea alongside Proto, Pherusa, Dynamene, Panopea and comely Galatea.2
Homer likewise gathers the Nereids when Thetis mourns for Achilles: in the bright cave at the bottom of the sea the sea-sisters beat their breasts together, and Actaea appears in that throng among Cymothoe, Halie, Proto and Dynamene. Beyond these catalogue rolls she carries no marriage, no child, no landscape tale in the seven lenses of this atlas.3
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story