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title: Nereids
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The Nereids are **nymphs** who personified the calm sea. Half woman and half fish, they were sometimes depicted riding a dolphin or a hippocampus.

Legend holds that the Nereids dwell in underwater palaces of crystal. According to Hesiod, there were fifty of them, and they protected sailors on their voyages.