InGreek mythology, Spio (Ancient Greek: Σπειώ means 'the dweller in the caves'[1]) was one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[2] Variations of her name were Speio[3] and Speo.[4]
Speio and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.[5]
In some accounts, Spio, together with her sisters Cymodoce, Nesaea and Thalia, was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene.[6] Later on, these four together with their other sisters Thetis, Melite and Panopea, were able to help the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.[7]
