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GALATEIA or GALATIA

Γαλάτεια

(Γαλάτεια).

1. A daughter of Nereus and Doris. (Hom. Il. 18.45; Hes. Th. 251.) Respecting the story of her love of Acis, see ACIS.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.