Galaxy/The codex of Amatheia

A Nereid named only in Homer's Iliad among the sea-sisters who surround Thetis in grief for Achilles — catalogue attestation without further myth in our sources.1

I

When Hephaestus forged new armour for Achilles, Thetis left Olympus and plunged into the deep; the bright cave filled with all the daughters of Nereus, and among those Homer names explicitly are Clymene, Ianeira, Ianassa, Maera, Orithyia and fair-tressed Amatheia, beating their breasts beside glorious Galatea and Nemertes.2

II

Hesiod's Theogony does not repeat her name in the Nereid roll preserved in our corpus, but the Iliad mourning-list stands as sufficient attestation under the Homer lens. The atlas marks her honestly: a sea-sister present at Thetis' lament, with no standalone tale beyond that scene.3

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Amatheia — art, artifacts and echoes.

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