Mar 9, 2023 · Ovid: Oceanus plays a minor role in the story of Callisto, told in Book 2 of the Metamorphoses (ca. 8 CE) and mentioned also in Book 2 of the Fasti (ca. 8 CE). Statius: Oceanus is mentioned briefly (as a host of the god Neptune/Poseidon) in the first book of Statius’ unfinished Achilleid (late first century CE).

Mar 8, 2023 · The earliest literary references to Oceanus and his daughters come from the Homeric epics (eighth century BCE). More detailed information can be found in the works of Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE), who gives a catalogue of the most important Oceanids in his Theogony. He also recounts the myths of several individual Oceanids, including ...

Aug 1, 2023 · Doris’ parents were Oceanus and Tethys, early gods of the sea and two of the original twelve Titans born to Gaia and Uranus. Doris and her sisters made up the three thousand Oceanids, while her brothers were the three thousand Potamoi, or “Rivers.” The Oceanids by Gustave Doré (1860–1869). Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

Mar 10, 2023 · Tethys features alongside Oceanus in some of these texts, especially the brief Hymn 82. Nonnus (fifth century CE): Tethys appears a few times in the epic Dionysiaca as a powerful sea deity. Roman. Virgil (70–19 BCE): Oceanus is briefly mentioned in Book 4 of Virgil’s Georgics in connection with the story of Aristaeus.

Jul 25, 2023 · As a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, Eurynome was often called an “Oceanid” (Ὠκεανίς, Ōkeanís). One source mentions, rather obscurely, that she was also referred to as “Titanian” (Τιτηνιάς, Titēniás). But Eurynome was not usually called a Titan in other sources, despite being the daughter of two Titans.

Feb 7, 2023 · Styx originated from a branch of the Titans who were friends to the Olympians. Her parents, Oceanus and Tethys, were both Titans themselves, but they chose to support Zeus and the Olympians rather than their Titan siblings during the Titanomachy, the war between the Olympians and Titans. Styx likewise was an ally of the Olympians.

Mar 9, 2023 · Like the Titan Oceanus, another god associated with the sea, Pontus was often represented with crab-claw horns growing out of his head. Family According to Hesiod’s Theogony , Pontus was the son of Gaia, the personification of the earth, who gave birth to …

Aug 30, 2023 · Achelous was the name of both the largest river in Greece—flowing from the Pindus Mountains to the Ionian Sea—and the god of that river. A child of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, Achelous was an ancient and powerful god. He fought Heracles for the hand of the princess Deianira, but was ultimately defeated.

Mar 10, 2023 · Cf. Plato, Timaeus 40e, where Theia seems to be counted as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. ↩; In other traditions, however, Hecate had different parents (and so was not necessarily Coeus’ granddaughter). ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 134. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 405–9, translated by H. G. Evelyn-White. ↩

Mar 13, 2023 · deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of [Gaia’s] children, and he hated his lusty sire. These twelve Titans, like other Greek gods, were immortal and ageless.