Oceanids (Oceanides) Greek The many daughters of the two Titan deities, Oceanus, the ancient god of water, and his wife and sister, Tethys.
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Oceanids (Oceanides) Greek The many daughters of the two Titan deities, Oceanus, the ancient god of water, and his wife and sister, Tethys. The Oceanids were the female personalities given to the rivers and streams of the lands of ancient Greece. They were also known as Nymphs or lesser goddesses. Hesiod, the Greek poet whose works date to about 800 b.c., wrote that there were more than 3,000 Oceanids, but he named only 41, among them Styx, Electra, and Calypso. The Oceanids were very closely related to the Nereids, nymphs of the Mediterranean Sea. They were also sisters to the lesser gods of the rivers, after whom many rivers themselves were named: the Nile, the Eridanus, and the Sangarius.
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- Neda Greek One of the oldest of the Oceanids, sea Nymph daughters of the Titan gods, Oceanus and Tethys; considered by many Greek writers to be a second-generation Titan.
- Nereids Greek The Nymphs of the sea, specifically the Mediterranean Sea; the daughters of Nereus, an ancient sea god, and Doris, a daughter of Oceanus.
- Oceanus Greek The Titan son of Gaia and Uranus and the brother and husband of the Titan Tethys; father of all the Oceanids and all the rivers and seas of the world.
- Phorcys (Phorcus; Old man of the sea) Greek An ancient sea god; son of Gaia and Pontus; husband to his sister Ceto.
- Pleione Greek Daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys; a nymph, one of the eldest among the thousands of daughters born of this union who were themselves considered by many writers to be Titans.