Eunice (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Eunice (Ancient Greek: Εὐνίκη Eunikê means 'she of happy victory'^[1]) was the "rosy-armed" Nereid,^[2] sea-nymph daughter of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[3] She is described as leaping and dancing from wave to wave.^[4]

Notes

1. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
2. Hesiod, Theogony 246
3. Apollodorus, 1.2.7
4. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 131. ISBN 9780786471119.

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.