Glaucus grew up to be a kind and helpful deity and began helping sailors in their difficult times. He saved sailors and fishers during the storms and also controlled the heavy waves during the waves.
Hydrus belonged to the Orphic tradition and was not accepted as the sea god initially. The genealogy of Greek gods and goddesses mattered in categorizing gods from geography.
He was a primordial god of the water in the Orphic tradition and then changed to the Protogenio. There were only three major deities, Hydros, Thesis, and Mud, under this tradition. This process led to the acceptance of Hydrus as one of the deities of underwater. Nerites was born as a son to Nereus and Doris and a brother of the fifty Nereids, all-male offsprings.
He was famous amongst the Greeks for his stunning looks and impressive body structure. Numerous myths are based on him, the first version of the myth exposes the affair between Nerites and Aphrodite.
Aphrodite fell in love with Nerites and wanted to bring Nerites to join the Olympian gods along with her. However, Nerites denied her proposal and wanted to stay with his family in the sea.
She was so dissatisfied that she made Nerites transform into shellfish and gave the wings to her son Eros. In the second version, Nerites and Poseidon fell for each other and receive Anteros, an origin of mutual love.
Poseidon made Nerites his charioteer, and later Nerites received a shape of a shellfish from Helios. Palaemon was a child sea-god who was born to Athmas and Leukothea.
He was born as Melikertes, a mortal boy whose parents Athmas and Ino fuelled the wrath of Hera by getting chosen to foster the young god Dionysios. Ino and her son jumped into the sea to protect themselves from the rage of Hera and Athmas. They transformed themselves into the sea-deities Leukothea and Palaemon. Since then, Palaemon was the god of sharks, harbors and was portrayed as either a dolphin-riding boy or a fish-tailed Triton-child in Greco-Roman mosaics.
Phorcys was a primordial sea god, born to Pontus and Gaia and raised as a brother to other sea deities Eurybia, Nereus, and Thaumas. He was portrayed as the sea god having grey-haired merman along with the common fishtail.
And, his signature posture was holding a flaming torch in one hand. Besides, Phorcys is also described as the god of hidden dangers and as a leader of sea monsters in the sea.
Ino was punished by Hera for looking after infant Dionysus. The goddess made her to leap into the sea from a cliff. She was then, by the Olympian gods , renamed into Leucothea and transformed into a sea goddess. Naiads - fresh water nymphs who presided over fresh water supplies of the earth, such as springs, rivers, lakes, fountains and marshes. They were classified into five groups, known as Pegaeae springs , Potameides rivers , Limnades lakes , Crinaeae fountains , and Eleionomae marshes.
Nereides sea nymphs who presided over the Mediterranean Sea. They were particularly associated with Aegean Sea where they had dwelled in the depths, inside the silver cave. Most notable were Thetis the leader of the Nereids , Amphitrite the one who left the Nereids to become a wife of Poseidon and a Queen of the seas , and Arethusa she transformed herself into a stream on the island of Ortygia in order to escape embraces of river god Alpheus.
Nereus - the Old Man of the Sea who had the power of prophecy and shapeshifting. He was the eldest son of Pontus and Gaea , born in titans generation. Nereus was a father of Nereids by Doris. Nerites - young sea god whom Aphrodite fell in love with. Upon rejecting the goddess to join her at Olympus, Aphrodite turned him into a shell-fish.
Oceanides - three thousand fresh water nymphs, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. They presided over all the fresh water on earth and were separated into three groups, known as Naiads spring, fountain, river, lake nymphs , Aurai breeze nymphs and Nephelai cloud and rain nymphs , where the last two became associated with Sky deities.
Palaemon - young sea-god, the protector of sailors in danger. His mortal name was Melicertes whose parents enraged Hera by taking care of young Dionysus. His mother Ino leapt into death with him. He, along his mother, was transformed into a sea-god by the Olympians and was renamed into Palaemon, while his mother Ino became Leucothea. Phorcys - primeval sea-god of hidden dangers of the deep. He was a son of Pontus and Gaea and was married to Ceto , with whom he was a father of sea monster Scylla , draconian Ladon and the three Gorgons.
Pontus - primeval god of the sea. He was one of the first-born gods and was a father of most of the ancient sea gods by Gaea. With his consort Thalassa they presided over the seas, fish and other sea creatures. Potamoi - three thousand river gods, born to Oceanus and Tethys. They were brothers of Oceanids and husbands of Naiads.
He had a son named Briareos who had a hundred hands and fifty heads. He was in command of all the winds associated with storms, including sea storms. Aeolus kept the winds hidden on a floating island, only to be released when the gods told him to do so. Also referred to as Ceto, she was the goddess of sea monsters. She was the daughter of Gaia and Pontus, who was the god of the sea before Poseidon had that role. Pontus, Gaia, and Keto all predated the Olympian gods and goddesses.
The Oceanids were sea nymphs. They were the children of Oceanus, the Titan god of the sea. Palaemon was the god who protected sailors, fishermen, and anyone else embarking on a sea journey. He was always pictured as a small boy who was riding on the back of a dolphin.
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