entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 1.2.7; son of Pontus and Gaia; the Old Man of the Sea; the Nereids are his fifty daughters
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 233-264: Nereus is the first-born of Pontus and Gaia — ""the truthful and trusty Old Man of the Sea"" who ""never forgets the right and knows only kind and just thoughts""; he fathered the 50 Nereids with the Oceanid Doris; Hesiod catalogs all 50 Nereids by name (Theogony 240-264); the most extensive ancient account of Nereus's character and family"
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,Nereus (the Old Man of the Sea) is named in the Iliad as the father of the Nereids; Iliad I.538: Thetis is described as the daughter of the old man of the sea; XVIII.36: the Nereids assemble from their father Nereus; Homer does not extensively describe Nereus himself
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES,index attestation,Attested in Theoi Sea Gods index.
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation,Attested in Theoi Greek Gods category index.
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."
ENT_NEREUS,SRC_THEOI_SEA,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.