Oceanid

Goddess Tethys, mother of Oceanids.

Greek deities series
Primordial deities
Titans and Olympians
Chthonic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities
Aquatic deities
Poseidon Oceanus Ceto Nereus Glaucus Thetis Amphitrite Tethys	Triton Proteus Phorcys Pontus Oceanids Potamoi Nereids Naiads
Nymphs
Dryads Naiads Meliae Oreads Napaeae Nereids	Hamadryads Oceanids Limnades Crinaeae Hesperides Pegaeae

In Greek mythology and, later, Roman mythology, the Oceanids (Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανίδες, pl. of Ὠκεανίς) were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Each was the patroness of a particular spring, river, sea, lake, pond, pasture, flower or cloud.^[1] Some of them were closely associated with the Titan gods (such as Calypso, Clymene, Asia, Electra) or personified abstract concepts (Tyche, Peitho).

One of these many daughters was also said to have been the consort of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite.^[2] More often, however, she is called a Nereid^[3]

Oceanus and Tethys also had 3,000 sons, the river-gods Potamoi (Ποταμοί, "rivers").^[4] Whereas most sources limit the term Oceanids or Oceanides to the daughters, others include both the sons and daughters under this term.^[5]

Sibelius wrote an orchestral work called Aallottaret (The Oceanides) in 1914.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of Oceanids
• Mermaid
• Nereid
• Siren

References

1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony, 346 ff
2. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1.8
3. ^ Hesiod Theogony 243; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.11
4. ^ Hesiod Theogony 337
5. ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, Preface.

External links

• Theoi Project - Oceanides