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List of OCEANIDS,
daughters of Oceanus and Tethys
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Acaste 1.
Hes.The.356
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Admete 1.
Hes.The.349
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Aethra 1.
Aethra 1 is called mother of the
HYADES 1 and Hyas by
Atlas, but see also
Pleione below in this list.
Hyg.Fab.192; Hyg.Ast.2.21; Ov.Fast.5.171.
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Amphiro.
Hes.The.350.
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Amphitrite.
Amphitrite is the Queen of the sea. She is
married to Poseidon and
their children are Triton, Rhode 2 and
Benthesicyme.
[For Triton see
BESTIARY]
Rhode 2 is called sometimes daughter of
Poseidon & Halia.
Halia is sister of the TELCHINES [see
CORYBANTES] and
daughter of Thalatta. Some say that Halia was raped
by her six sons, and having cast herself into the
sea, was given the name of Leucothea, a sea-deity.
But others say that Leucothea is Ino, the daughter
of Cadmus & Harmonia
1. In any case Rhode 2 married
Helius and gave birth to
the HELIADES 2. These, being astrologers,
introduced new practices in seamanship and divided
the day into hours. The most highly endowed of them
was Tenages, who was slain by his brothers because
of their envy of him. When their treacherous act
became known, all who had taken part in the
conspiracy fled and settled in different places.
Benthesicyme married an Ethiopian husband and
had two daughters. She also brought up Eumolpus 1.
This child was the son of
Poseidon & Chione
1, and she, in order not to be detected by her
father flung Eumolpus 1 into the sea. But
Poseidon picked him up
and, having conveyed him to Ethiopia, gave him to
Benthesicyme to bring up. Later Eumolpus 1 fought
on the side of the Eleusinians in their war against
the Athenians and was killed by King Erechtheus of
Athens. Chione 1 is the
daughter of Boreas 1 [see
WINDS] & Orithyia 2,
the daughter of Erechtheus, which means that
Eumolpus was killed by his grandgrandfather.
Apd.1.2.2, 1.2.7, 1.4.5; Col.21; Hes.The.243,
930; Hyg.Ast.2.5.
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Argia 3.
Argia 3 married the river god Inachus and had by
him Phoroneus and
Io [see also Melia below in
this list].
Hyg.Fab.143, 145.
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Asia 2.
Wife of the Titan Iapetus 1, and mother of
Menoetius 1, Atlas,
Prometheus 1 and
Epimetheus, but see also Clymene 1 below.
Apd.1.2.2-4.
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Beroe 4.
This Oceanid was in the train of
Cyrene.
Cyrene was reared near
Mount Pelion and was of amazing beauty.
Apollo found her without
spears wrestling alone with a lion and carried her
off to that part of the land of Libya where in
later times he founded a city and named it, after
her, Cyrene.
Vir.Geo.4.341.
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Beroe 5.
It is after this girl that the city Berytos
(Beyrut) in Lebanon was called.
Aphrodite came to the
Allmother Harmonia 3, who possessed the oracles of
Ophion 1, asking whether the gift of Justice would
be assigned to the city of her own daughter Beroe 5
(as some say that Beroe 5 is the daughter of
Adonis &
Aphrodite).
Dionysus 2 fell in
love with her and
Poseidon as well. They
had to fight for her and
Poseidon won her.
Nonn.41.153-155, 41.318ff, 41.367, 42.40ff.,
42.66, 42.506ff., 43.394ff.
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Callirrhoe 1.
Mother of Geryon by Chrysaor, and of Cotys 2 and
perhaps Atys 3 by Manes.
Chrysaor, offspring of
Poseidon &
Medusa 1 has been called
King of Iberia. Geryon had the body of three men
grown together and joined in one at the waist, but
parted in three from the flanks and thighs.
Heracles 1 took his
cattle away and killed him. Geryon had a daughter
Erythia 2, who was by
Hermes mother of Norax,
the man who led the Iberians to Sardinia.
Manes is said to have been the first king of
Lydia in Asia Minor. His son Cotys 2 married Halie
2, daughter of Tyllus, and had by her Asies and
Atys 3. Atys 3 became King of Lydia after his
father (either Manes or Cotys 2 and is said to be a
descendant of Heracles
1 & Omphale.
Apd.2.5.10; DH.1.27.2; Hes.The.350, 979.
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Calypso 2.
Hes.The.350.
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Caphira.
Caphira is said to have nurtured, together with
the TELCHINES, the child
Poseidon, whom
Rhea 1 had committed to
their care.
Dio.5.55.1.
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Cerceis.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Ceto 3.
Ceto 3, who has been identified as a Naiad, is
said to be the mother of Astris by
Helius. Astris married
the river god Hydaspes 1 and had by him King
Deriades of India, who was wounded by
Dionysus 2, during his
campaign against the Indians, and finished by the
MAENADS.
Nonn.26.355.
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Chryseis 1.
Hes.The.350.
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Clio 3.
Another Oceanid in the train of
Cyrene [see also Beroe 4
above in this list].
Vir.Geo.4.341.
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Clymene 1.
Clymene 1, wife of Iapetus 1, is mother of
Menoetius 1, Atlas,
Prometheus 1,
Epimetheus and Hesperus 2, but see Asia 2 above in
this list.
Others say that she consorted with
Prometheus 1 and
mothered Deucalion 1,
the man who survived the
Flood.
She is also said to be the mother of
Phaethon 3 who fell
from the sky when he borrowed his father
Helius' chariot. She is
also then the mother of the HELIADES 1, daughters
of Helius, who wept for
their brother Phaethon
3 and their tears hardened into amber as they
were turned into poplars. Clymene 1 was married to
Merops 2, King of Ethiopia, who adopted his wife's
son, Phaethon 3.
DH.1.17.3; Dio.4.27.1; Hes.The.350ff, 506ff.;
Hyg.Fab.154; Nonn.17.280, 38.130; Ov.Met.1.751ff.,
1.760ff, 2.184.
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Clytia 1.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Daira.
Daira made love to
Hermes, and Eleusis,
after whom the city is called, was born.
Pau.1.38.7.
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Dione 1.
Dione 1 could be one of the
TITANS, because some say
she is the daughter of
Uranus &
Gaia. According to some she
consorted with Zeus and
gave birth to
Aphrodite.
Apd.1.1.3, 1.3.1; Hom.Il.5.370; Hes.The.350ff.
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Doris 1.
Doris 1 married Nereus, a god son of Pontus
(Sea) & Gaia who can
turn himself into all kinds of shapes and who
dwells in the Aegean Sea, and gave birth to the
NEREIDS and also to
Glaucus 7. However some say that this Glaucus 7 was
first a mortal fisherman, but after chewing a plant
he became a sea-deity.
Apd.1.2.7; Eur.Ore.362; Hes.The.350ff.
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Electra 1.
Electra 1 married Thaumas 1, son of Pontus &
Gaia, and gave birth to the
HARPIES, Iris 1 and, some
say, to Hydaspes 1, who is however a river god.
Apd.1.2.2-6; Hes.The.266; Nonn.26.362.
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Ephyra 1.
Ephyra 1 was the first to dwell in
Corinth.
Pau.2.1.1.
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Eudore 3.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Europe 3.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Eurynome 3.
According to some Eurynome 3 ruled heaven
together with Ophion 1 until
Cronos &
Rhea 1 replaced them, but
she, along with Ophion 1, fell in the waves of the
ocean. It is said that she consorted with
Zeus and gave birth to the
CHARITES and to the
river god Asopus, the father of Aegina, whom
Zeus ravished.
Apd.1.2.2, 1.3.1, 3.12.6; Arg.1.503;
Hes.The.907; Nonn.2.573.
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Galaxaure.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Hippo 1.
Hes.The.351.
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Ianira 1.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Ianthe 1.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Idyia.
Idya is called the youngest among the OCEANIDS.
She married King Aeetes
of Colchis and became mother of Chalciope 2 and
Medea. And Chalciope 2,
whom some call Iophossa, married Phrixus 1, the man
who came to Colchis flying on the Ram with the
Golden Fleece [for these see
ARGONAUTS and
BESTIARY].
Apd.1.9.1; Arg.3.240; Hes.The.350ff., 960.
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Melia.
Melia consorted with the river god Inachus and
gave birth to Aegialeus 2, the first inhabitant of
Sicyon,
Phoroneus, the first
man, and Io [see also Argia 3
above in this list].
Melia was also loved by
Apollo and she gave birth
to the seer Tenerus and Ismenus 1, the father of
Dirce, the woman who ill-treated Antiope 3, and was
killed by the latter's sons
Amphion 1 and Zethus,
who tied her to a bull and flung her dead body into
the spring called Dirce after her.
Apd.2.1.1-3; Pau.9.10.6.
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Meliboea 1.
Meliboea 1 married Pelasgus 1, after whom the
inhabitants of the Peloponnesus were called
Pelasgians. They became the parents of impious
Lycaon 2.
Apd.3.8.1.
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Melobosis.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Menestho.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Merope 4.
Merope 4 married Clymenus 5, son of
Helius, and had children:
Phaethon 3 [see also
Clymene 1 above in this list], and the girls called
HELIADES 1.
Hyg.Fab.154.
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Metis 1.
Metis 1 turned into many shapes to avoid
Zeus' embraces but
nevertheless she became his first wife. But as
Gaia had said that, after
giving birth to the girl who was in her womb, Metis
1 would bear a son who would be the lord of Heaven,
Zeus swallowed her. And
when the time came for the birth to take place,
Prometheus 1 or else
Hephaestus smote the
head of Zeus with an axe,
and Athena, fully armed,
leapt up from the top of his head at the river
Triton.
Apd.1.2.2, 1.3.6; Hes.The.358, 886ff.
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Nemesis.
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Oceanid.
This unidentified Oceanid who consorted with
Zeus and gave birth to
Helen, could be the same
as Nemesis.
Hes.CWE.66.
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Ocyrrhoe 1.
Hes.The.350ff.
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Pasithoe.
Hes.The.352.
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Peitho 2.
Hes.The.349.
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Periboea 8.
Periboea 8 married the Titan Lelantus and had by
him a daughter Aura 2. Aura 2 was a Phrygian
huntress unacquainted with love when she was
ravished by Dionysus 2
while asleep. She had twins but killed one of the
children and her son Iacchus she abandonned, but
the MAENADS of
Eleusis took care of him
and honoured him as a god next after the son of
Persephone (Zagreus)
and after Semele's son
(Dionysus 2). Later
the Athenians honoured all the three together. Aura
2 threw herself into the river Sangarius (a river
in Asia Minor flowing into the Black Sea) and was
transformed into a fountain by
Zeus.
Nonn.48.246.
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Perseis.
Perseis married Helius
and gave birth to King
Aeetes of Colchis
(Medea's father), Pasiphae
(wife of King Minos 2 of
Crete) and the witch
Circe.
Apd.1.9.1, 3.1.2; Cic.ND.3.48; Hes.The.350ff.,
956.
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Petraea.
Hes.The.357.
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Philyra 1.
Some say that Philyra 1 consorted with
Cronos and gave birth to
the Centaur Chiron. It is
said that when she saw that she had borne a strange
species (a Centaur), she asked
Zeus to change her into
another form, and she was turned into the tree
called linden.
Apd.1.2.4; Hyg.Fab.138; Prop.2.1.60; Val.5.152.
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Pleione.
Pleione married Atlas
and gave birth to the
PLEIADES and the
HYADES 1 [see also
Aethra 1 above in this list].
Apd.3.10.1; Hyg.Fab.192; Ov.Fast.5.83.
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Plexaure 1.
Hes.The.353.
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Pluto 1.
Hes.The.355.
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Polydora 4.
Hes.The.354.
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Prymno.
Hes.The.350.
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Rhodia 1.
Hes.The.351.
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Styx.
Water-stream in the
Underworld.
Zeus caused oaths to be
sworn by the water of Styx because she had fought
on his side against the
TITANS. If any of the
gods pours a libation of her water and is forsworn,
he/she lies breathless for a year, never tastes
ambrosia and nectar and lies down spiritless and
voiceless. After spending thus one year in sickness
he/she is cut off for nine years from the god's
councils and feasts, and cannot return until the
tenth year. Such is the oath of Styx [more details
at Underworld].
Others have called Styx the daughter of Erebus
(Darkness of the
Underworld) and
Nyx. According to some Styx
married Pallas 1, son of the Titan Crius 1 and
Eurybia 1, daughter of Pontus (Sea) and
Gaia (Earth), and had by
him Nike (Victory), Cratos
(Power), Zelos (Emulation), and Bia (Violence).
Some say that
Persephone is her
daughter by Zeus. Still
others say that she is the mother of Echidna, the
monster whom Argus 1
killed, by a complete unknown called Piras 2.
Apd.1.2.2.-5, 1.3.1; Hes.The.383ff., 790ff.;
Hyg.Pre; Pau.8.18.2.
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Telesto.
Hes.The.358.
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Thoe 1.
Hes.The.354.
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Tyche.
Tyche is Fortune, whose
pleasure is to dash immoderate hopes.
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Urania 1.
Hes.The.350.
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Xanthe 1.
Hes.The.356.
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Zeuxo.
Hes.The.352.
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Tyche: a most beloved
oceanid
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