doris derby - Gardening
Doris Derby, “Rural family, Rome, Mississippi” (1968) from A Civil Rights Journey by Doris Derby (MACK, 2021, all images courtesy the artist and MACK) In late August 1963, just after the assassination ... Doris was a nymph, one of the three thousand Oceanids born to the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. She married Nereus, the “Old Man of the Sea,” and gave birth to the fifty sea nymphs known as the Nereids.
Understanding the Context
The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris. Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities. The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis.