Galaxy/The codex of Halie

Halie or Halia (Ancient Greek: Ἁλίη / Ἁλία, "dweller in the sea" or "the briny") is, in this atlas entry, the "ox-eyed" Nereid daughter of Nereus and Doris. Homer lists her among Thetis' mourning sisters. Other myths know a Rhodian Halia mother of Rhodos and a Lydian Halie — distinct figures.

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I.Ox-eyed Nereid

Hesiod, Apollodorus, and Homer know Halie among the fifty Nereids. The epithet "ox-eyed" marks her in the catalogues. In Iliad 18 she and her sisters gather when Thetis mourns with Achilles after Patroclus' death. She has no standalone myth beyond the genealogical and mourning rolls.

II.Homonyms

A separate Halia of Rhodes — daughter of Thalassa, sister of the Telchines, mother of Rhodos by Poseidon — leaps into the sea after her sons' crime against Aphrodite; Rhodians sometimes equated her with Leucothea. Other namesakes include a Sybarite mother of the Ophiogeneis and a Lydian wife of Cotys. The atlas id halie-nereid with kinds nereid is Nereus' ox-eyed daughter alone.

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameHaliē (Ἁλίη)
Roman nameHalie
Typenymph
Domainsox-eyed Nereid · daughter of Nereus · catalogue node — thin standalone myth
ParentageNereus · Doris
Cult centersSea (Nereid)
EtymologyFrom ἅλς (háls), "sea" / "salt" — "the sea-dweller" or "the briny."
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