Galene in the Smith Classics DictionaryArchived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. The suffix -teia or -theia means "goddess", as in other Nereid names: Amatheia, Psamathe, Leukotheia, Pasitheia, etc. Hesiod has both a Galene ("Calm-Sea") and a Galateia named as Nereids. Galateia as "sea-calm Goddess" seems a likely inference; the reasoning for Galateia as Milky-White comes from the adjectival form of galaktos, galakteia.
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Reinhold, Meyer (May 1971). "The Naming of Pygmalion's Animated Statue". The Classical Journal. 66 (4): 316–319. JSTOR3296568. Reinhold notes that the first edition of Lemprière's Bibliotheca Classica (1788), does not have an entry for "Galatea", which was inserted in later editions.
Galene in the Smith Classics DictionaryArchived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. The suffix -teia or -theia means "goddess", as in other Nereid names: Amatheia, Psamathe, Leukotheia, Pasitheia, etc. Hesiod has both a Galene ("Calm-Sea") and a Galateia named as Nereids. Galateia as "sea-calm Goddess" seems a likely inference; the reasoning for Galateia as Milky-White comes from the adjectival form of galaktos, galakteia.
