Proto (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Proto or ProthoHyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero) (; Ancient Greek: Πρωτὼ Prôtô means 'the first' or 'the receiver') was the Nereid of the first or maiden voyage and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.Homer, Iliad 18.43; Hesiod, Theogony 256; Apollodorus, 1.2.7 She and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.Homer, Iliad 18.39-51

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