Illustrative. Oceanus: Milton, Comus, 868. Neptune: Spenser, Faerie Queene, 1, 11, 54; Shakespeare, Tempest, I, ii; Midsummer Night's Dream, II, ii; Macbeth, II, ii; Cymbeline, III, i; Hamlet, I, i; Milton, Lycidas; Paradise Regained, 1, 190; Paradise Lost, 9, 18; Comus, 869; Prior, Ode on Taking of Namur; Waller's Panegyric to the Lord Protector. Panope: Milton, Lycidas, 99.
Harpies. Milton, Paradise Lost, 3, 403. Sirens: Wm. Morris, Life and Death of Jason—Song of the Sirens. Scylla and Charybdis (see Index): Milton, Paradise Lost, 2, 660; Arcades, 63; Comus, 257; Pope, Rape of the Lock, 3, 122. Sirens: Rossetti, A Sea-Spell; A. Lang, "They hear the Sirens for the second time."
Table B. The Family of Night
Night +— Goddesses of Destiny and Fate (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos)
+— Death (Thanatos)
+— Sleep
| +— Morpheus
| +— Icelus
| +— Phantasus
+— Dreams
+— Momus (god of ridicule—adverse criticism)
+— Care
+— Hesperides
+— Nemesis
Naiads. Landor, To Joseph Ablett; Shelley, To Liberty, 8; Spenser, Prothalamion, 19; Milton, Lycidas; Paradise Regained, 2, 355; Comus, 254; Buchanan, Naiad (see 134); Drummond of Hawthornden, "Nymphs, sister nymphs, which haunt this crystal brook, And happy in these floating bowers abide," etc.; Pope, Summer, 7; Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health, "Come, ye Naiads! to the fountains lead."
Table C. Divinities of the Sea
Gæa =Uranus
+— Oceanus
| =Tethys
| +— Inachus and other river-gods
| +— Oceanids
| +— Doris (the Oceanid)
| =Nereus
| +— Amphitrite
| | =Neptune
| | +— Proteus (acc. to Apollodorus)
| | +— Triton
| +— Galatea
| +— Thetis
| =Peleus
| +— Achilles
+— Cronus
| =Rhea
| +— Neptune
| =Amphitrite
| +— Proteus (acc. to Apollodorus) (see above)
| +— Triton (see above)
+— Rhea
=Cronus
+— Neptune (see above)
Gæa
=Pontus
+— Nereus
| =Doris (the Oceanid)
| +— Amphitrite (see above)
| +— Galatea (see above)
| +— Thetis (see above)
+— Thaumas
| +— Iris
| +— Harpies
+— Phorcys
| =Ceto
| +— Grææ
| +— Gorgons
| +— Sirens
| +— Scylla
+— Ceto
=Phorcys
+— Grææ (see above)
+— Gorgons (see above)
+— Sirens (see above)
+— Scylla (see above)
Proteus. Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, I, i; II, ii; III, ii; IV, iv; Pope, Dunciad, 1, 37; 2, 109. The Water Deities are presented in a masque contained in Beaumont and Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy.
In Art. Poseidon: see text, Figs. 40 and 41 (originals in the British Museum and the Glyptothek, Munich); also the Isthmian Poseidon, Fig. 95. The Atlas (Græco-Roman sculpture) in National Museum, Naples; the Triton in Vatican (text, Fig. 42). Modern painting: J. Van Beers, The Siren; D. G. Rossetti, The Siren.