Depiction of Pleione as an Oceanid nymph. Painting from French artist Gustave Doré.
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The most likely circumstance, based on the testimony of Pausanias, is that both authors took their themes from a religion known to and believed in by all the Hellenes; thus, it is probably best to assume that Eurynome the Oceanid is the same Oceanid of ancient Greek belief mentioned in all the classical sources.
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Phaethon was said to be the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios.Oxford Dictionaries, "Phaethon"Collins English Dictionary, "Phaethon" Alternatively, less common genealogies make him a son of Clymenus by Oceanid Merope,Hyginus, Fabulae, 154 of Helios and Rhodos (thus a full brother of the Heliadae)Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 6. 131 or of Helios and Prote.Tzetzes, Chiliades, 4.
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Its name comes from the mythological Metis, a Titaness and Oceanid, daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.Graham, A.; Metis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.
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Elsewhere, however, this Melia is an Oceanid, one of the many daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.Pindar, Paean 9 fr. 52k 38–46; Pausanias, 9.10.5, 6, 9.26.
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Hesiod, Theogony 359; Homeric Hymn 2.422. According to Caldwell, p. 49 n. 359, the Hesiod Oceanid is "probably not" the same; see also West 1966, p.
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52, 53, n. c says the name Astris is a Nonnus invention. one of the Heliades, daughters of Helios, either by the Oceanid ClymeneNonnus. Dionysiaca, Book 17.282.
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There have been many different accounts of Medea's family tree. One of the only uncontested facts is that she is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis. According to Hesiod (Theogony 956-962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children Circe and Aeetes. Aeëtes then married the Oceanid Idyia and Medea was their child.
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Bia was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and Oceanid Styx,Hesiod. Theogony, 375-383. and sister of Nike, Kratos, and Zelus.Hesiod, Theogony 383–5Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.
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Aeëtes – he was a King of Colchis in Greek mythology, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis (a daughter of Oceanus), brother of Circe and Pasiphaë, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Absyrtus. The name means "eagle" (aietos). His consorts were Idyia and either Asterodia the Oceanid, Neaera the Nereid. According to others, he was brother of Perses, a king of Tauris, husband of his niece Hecate, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Absyrtus.
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The name stems from the mythological Greek sea goddess Tethys, sister and consort of Oceanus, mother of the great rivers, lakes, and fountains of the world and of the Oceanid sea nymphs.
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4 and Telephassa respectively. A daughter ChioneServius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 4.250 was said to be borne to Nilus and Callirhoe, an Oceanid. His other children include: Argiope,Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes fr.
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Lycaon was the son of Pelasgus and either the Oceanid MeliboeaPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1Tzetzes on Lycophron 481 or Deianira, daughter of another LycaonDionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.11.2 & 1.13.1Greek Papyri III No. 140b.
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After Uranus's castration, Gaia mated with her son Pontus (Sea) producing a descendent line consisting primarily of sea deities, sea nymphs, and hybrid monsters. Their first child Nereus (Old Man of the Sea) married Doris, one of the Oceanid daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and they produced the Nereids, fifty sea nymphs, which included Amphitrite, Thetis, and Psamathe. Their second child Thaumas, married Electra, another Oceanid, and their offspring were Iris (Rainbow) and the two Harpies: Aello and Ocypete.Theogony 233-269.
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Pleione was an Oceanid nymph of Mount Kyllene in Arkadia (southern Greece), one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. The nymphs in Greek mythology were the spirits of nature; oceanids, spirits of the sea. Though considered lesser divinities, they were still very much venerated as the protectors of the natural world. Each oceanid was thence a patroness of a particular body of water — be it ocean, river, lake, spring or even cloud — and by extension activities related thereto.
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Die in Pappeln verwandelten Schwestern des Phaeton by Santi di Tito (2nd half of 16th century) In Greek mythology, the Heliades (, "children of the sun") were the daughters of Helios and Clymene the Oceanid.
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Theogony :355. Eurynome is among the daughters of Ocean and Tethys. :907. Eurynome bore the Graces to Zeus. Homer and Hesiod establish that a belief in the Oceanid existed in the earliest literary times.
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Venus, the Morning Star), and the Stars. From Pallas and the Oceanid Styx came Zelus (Envy), Nike (Victory), Kratos (Power), and Bia (Force).Theogony 337-388\. The translations of the names used here follow Caldwell, p. 8.
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From Poseidon and the Nereid Amphitrite was born Triton, and from Ares and Aphrodite came Phobos (Fear), Deimos (Terror), and Harmonia (Harmony). Zeus, with Atlas's daughter Maia, produced Hermes, and with the mortal Alcmene, produced the hero Heracles, who married Hebe. Zeus and the mortal Semele, daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus, the founder and first king of Thebes, produced Dionysus, who married Ariadne, daughter of Minos, king of Crete. Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced Circe, Aeetes, who became king of Colchis and married the Oceanid Idyia, producing Medea.
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Lelantos was married to the Oceanid Periboia, whom Nonnus seems to imply was Aura's mother,Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.245-247 (III pp. 440-443). although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele".Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26-28 (I pp.
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3, another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus. Perseis, wife of Helios and mother of Circe and Aeetes;Hesiod, Theogony 956–957; Apollodorus, 1.9.1. Idyia, wife of Aeetes and mother of Medea;Hesiod, Theogony 958–962; Apollodorus, 1.9.23.
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Dione's name appears to be a feminine cognate to Dios and Dion, which are oblique forms of the name Zeus. Zeus and Dione shared a cult at Dodona in northwestern Greece. In Theogony, Hesiod describes Dione as an Oceanid.
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150 n. 4; Hošek, p. 678. The Harpies, in Hesiod the daughters of Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra,Hesiod, Theogony, 265-269; so also Apollodorus, 1.2.6, and Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (though Fabulae 14, gives their parents as Thaumas and Oxomene).
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Mera and AJ again leave Earth for parts unknown. When next shown later in the series, Mera and AJ are on Oceanid, a water world that is being exploited by aliens for its resources. Mera and AJ team up with Aquaman to defeat the aliens and Mera chooses to stay with her former husband in Atlantis, while AJ remains behind on Oceanid to act as its protector and champion, assuming the role of Aquaman. Mera and Arthur eventually reconcile, living in Atlantis and continuing to have adventures together, including a trip to Skartaris, where they team up with Travis Morgan, The Warlord.
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Other sources give the Charites other parents, see Smith, s.v. Charis. Clymene was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.Hesiod, Theogony 351, however according to Apollodorus, 1.2.3, another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus.
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In Greek mythology, Acragas (or Akragas), was said to be a son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope, and the eponym of the town of Acragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily.Smith, "Acragas"; Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Akragantes (Meineke, p. 74, Billerbeck, p. 121).
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He was the son of the Titan Cronus and the Oceanid Philyra,Hyginus. Poeticon Astronomicon, 2.38.1 ffScholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1235 citing Pherecydes and thus possible brother to DolopsHyginus, Fabulae, Preface and Aphrus, the ancestor and eponym of the Aphroi, i.e. the native Africans.
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From Coeus and Phoebe came Leto and Asteria, who married Perses, producing Hekate,Theogony 404-411. and from Cronus and Rhea came Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus.Theogony 453-458. The Titan Iapetos married the Oceanid Clymene and produced Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
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Grimal, "Aura" p. 71; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.238-247 (III pp. 440-443), 48.421 (III pp. 454, 455); 48.444 (III pp. 456, 457). Nonnus seems to imply that Aura's mother was the wife of Lenatos, the Oceanid nymph Periboia,Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.245-247 (III pp. 440-443).
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Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Unbending). Zeus then married his third wife, another Oceanid, Eurynome, who bore the three Charites (Graces): Aglaea (Splendor), whom Hephaestus married, Euphrosyne (Joy), and Thalia (Good Cheer).Theogony 901-911\. The translations of the names used here, follow Caldwell, p.
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Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (and thus a Nereid), according to Hesiod's Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus an Oceanid), according to the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both the NereidsPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca i.2.7 and the Oceanids.Bibliotheke i.2.2 and i.4.6.
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Though most nymphs were considered to be minor deities, many Oceanids were significant figures. Metis, the personification of intelligence, was Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed.Hesiod, Theogony 886-900; Apollodorus, 1.3.6. The Oceanid Doris, like her mother Tethys, was an important sea-goddess.
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Metis was an Oceanid, the daughters of Oceanus and his sister Tethys, who were three thousand in number. She was a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), sons of Oceanus and Tethys, who also numbered three thousand. Metis was the first great spouse of Zeus,M. Detienne and J.-P.
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The Charites were usually considered the daughters of Zeus and Oceanid Eurynome. Rarely, they were said to be daughters of Dionysus and Kronois or of Helios and the Naiad Aegle.Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 15.87 & 48.530Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.35.5. Other possible names of their mother by Zeus are Eurydome, Eurymedousa, or Euanthe.
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He was the son of Argus and Evadne (daughter of Strymon) or the Oceanid Peitho. He had five brothers who were named Ecbasus, Jasus, Peiranthus, Epidaurus and Tiryns.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. 2Hyginus, Fabulae, 145Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 932; on Phoenician Women, 1116 Criasus fathered Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea by Melantho.
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Others appear to be geographical eponyms, such as Europa, Asia, Ephyra (Corinth), and Rhodos (Rhodes).Fowler 2013, pp. 13-16. Several of the names given for Oceanids, are also names given for Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs who were the daughters of the sea god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
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Ocypete (English translation: "swift wing") was one of the three Harpies in Greek mythology. She was also known as Ocypode ("swift foot") or Ocythoe ("swift runner"). The Harpies were the daughters of the sea god Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra. According to one story, the Harpies were chased by the Boreads.
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In some versions she is the daughter of Nilus, god of the Nile and Nephele, a soft cloud oceanid. She had several children, including Europa, Cilix, Cadmus, Thasus, who gave his name to an island next to Samothrace,Kerenyi 1959:27f. and Phoenix. Thasus is sometimes said to be her grandchild by Cilix.
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Compare with the story of the Theban Amphion (see below). As noted by Fontenrose, there are other apparent congruences between the Theban Melia and Europa.Fontenrose, p. 318. Like Melia, Europa was also the name of an Oceanid,Hesiod, Theogony 357; Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7 (Fowler 2013, p. 13).
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Iacchus; scholiast on Aristophanes, Frogs 324 (Rutherford, p. 316). And according to Nonnus, Iacchus was the son of Dionysus and the nymph Aura, who was the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the Oceanid Periboia (or Cybele?).Bernabé and García-Gasco, p. 109; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.26-28 I pp. 4, 5, 48.245-247 III pp.
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This goddess should not be confused with the minor Oceanid also named Ceto, or with various mythological beings referred to as ketos (plural ketea); this is a general term for "sea monster" in Ancient Greek."κῆτος" in Liddell, Henry and Robert Scott. 1996. A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised by H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie.
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In Greek mythology, Dodone was said to be one of the Oceanid nymphs (the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys), after whom the ancient city of Dodona was named. The 6th century AD grammarian Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. Δωδὠνη),Meineke, pp. 246-247 writes that according to Thrasyboulos (FHG II 464, a), as reported by Epaphroditus (fr.
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To find a name for the object, Jacques Babinet of the Academy of Sciences created a shortlist and asked the geologist Élie de Beaumont to make the selection. De Beaumont chose Doris, after an Oceanid in Greek mythology. Since Doris was discovered on the same night as 49 Pales, de Deaumont suggested naming the two "The Twins".
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By most accounts, she was the daughter of Helios, the Titan sun god, and Perse, one of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs. Her brothers were Aeëtes, keeper of the Golden Fleece and father of Medea, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.Homer, Odyssey 10.135; Hesiod, Theogony, 956; Apollodorus, Library 1.9.
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The fall of Phaethon, Johann Liss, early 17th century Phaethon (; , Phaéthōn, ) was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios in Greek mythology. His name was also used by the Ancient Greeks as an alternative name for the planet Jupiter,Cicero, De Natura Deorum. the motions and cycles of which were personified in poetry and myth.
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Iapetus married his niece Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, while Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. The two remaining Titan sisters, Themis and Mnemosyne, became wives of their nephew Zeus. From Oceanus and Tethys came the three thousand river gods, and three thousand Oceanid nymphs.Hesiod, Theogony 337-370.
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Iliad 18.388ff :The earliest known reference to the Oceanid is a passage in the Iliad relating what happened to Hephaestus after his mother, Hera, threw him from Olympos. Thetis and Eurynome, the daughter of Oceanus, offered him refuge. He stayed with them for nine years in their cave at the edge of the ocean making splendiferous artifacts.
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Prymno (minor planet designation: 261 Prymno) is a somewhat large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a B-type asteroid and probably has a primitive composition not unlike common C-type carbonaceous asteroids. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 31, 1886, in Clinton, New York and was named after the Greek Oceanid Prymno.
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In Greek mythology, Eleusis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλευσῖνι or Ἐλευσῖνα) was the eponymous hero of the town of Eleusis. He was a son of Hermes and the Oceanid Daeira, or of Ogygus.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 38. 7 Panyassis wrote of him as father of Triptolemus, adding that "Demeter came to him";Cited in Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 5.
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Foremost is that both names come from the Greek word πλεῖν, (pr. ple'-ō), meaning "to sail". This is particularly plausible given that ancient Greece was a seafaring culture and because of Pleione's mythical status as an Oceanid nymph. Pleione, as a result, is sometimes referred to as the "sailing queen" while her daughters the "sailing ones".
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Callirhoe is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. Its nine species are commonly known as poppy mallows and all are native to the prairies and grasslands of North America. Of the nine species, some are annuals while others are perennial plants. The genus is named for the Oceanid Callirrhoe in Greek mythology.
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Xanthe, minor planet designation 411 Xanthe, is an asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 77 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois at Nice Observatory on 7 January 1896. The asteroid was named after Xanthe, an Oceanid or sea nymph, and one of the many Titan daughters of Oceanus and Tethys from Greek mythology.
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The Oceanids' father Oceanus was the great primordial world- encircling river, their mother Tethys was a sea goddess, and their brothers the Potamoi (also three thousand in number) were the personifications of the great rivers of the world. Like the rest of their family, the Oceanid nymphs were associated with water, as the personification of springs.Fowler, p. 13; Most, p.
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Oceanids, p. 401. While their brothers, the Potamoi, were the usual personifications of major rivers, Styx (according to Hesiod the eldest and most important Oceanid) was also the personification of a major river, the underworld's river Styx.Tripp, s.v. Oceanids, p. 401; Hesiod, Theogony 361. And some, like Europa, and Asia, seem associated with areas of land rather than water.Fowler, pp.
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Jean Sibelius wrote an orchestral tone poem called Aallottaret (The Oceanides) in 1914. The Manchester-born painter Annie Swynnerton, the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Academy in 1922, painted a work called Oceanid some time before 1908. It shows a strong, unidealised female figure at one with nature, typical of Swynnerton's many depictions of "real" women and her feminist politics.
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Dione is among the Titanides or Titanesses. She is called a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, hence an Oceanid, a water-nymph. She is otherwise called a daughter of Gaia; according to worshippers of Orpheus her father is the sky-god Uranus, while others identify her father as Aether. She and Zeus are called the parents of Aphrodite by some ancient sources.
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Eurynome (; Ancient Greek: ) was a deity of ancient Greek religion worshipped at a sanctuary near the confluence of rivers called the Neda and the Lymax in classical Peloponnesus. She was represented by a statue of what we would call a mermaid. Tradition, as reported by the Greek traveller, Pausanias, identified her with the Oceanid, or "daughter of Ocean", of Greek poetry.
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In Greek mythology, Electra (; , Ēlektra "amber") was the Oceanid daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.Hesiod, Theogony 337-370; Homeric Hymn, 2.5, 2.418-423; Apollodorus,1.2.2. According to Hesiod, she was the wife of Thaumas, and by him, the mother of Iris, the goddess of rainbows and a messenger for the gods, and the Harpies.Hesiod, Theogony 265-269, 780-381; also Apollodorus, 1.2.
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In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (Ancient Greek: Χιονη from χιών – chiōn, "snow") was the daughter of the Oceanid Callirrhoe and Nilus. She was raped by a local peasant and transformed into a snow cloud by Hermes at the order of Zeus. From the clouds she cast snow (khiôn) upon the desert. The Greek word for snow (χιών chiōn) was thought to have come from her name.
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In Greek mythology, Amphirho (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιρὼ or Αμφιρω Amphirô) was an Oceanid, one of the 3,000 daughters of the Titans of the sea, Oceanus and Tethys.Hesiod, Theogony 360 She was sister to other famous Oceanids like Doris, Styx, Clymene, Eurynome, Electra and Metis. Amphirho had also the same parentage with that of the river-gods. Her name may probably mean "surrounding-river" from amphi and rhoos.
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One of the Hyades, the rain- bringing nymphs,Smith, 1873. "Hyades" is Dione, the daughter of Atlas and an Oceanid nymph (either Pleione or Aethra); sheHyginus, Fabulae, 82 & 83 married king Tantalus and bore him sons Pelops and Broteas, and a daughter, Niobe.Smith, 1873. "Tantalus" Among the 50 Mediterranean sea-nymphs called the Nereides was one Dione, like the others a daughter of Nereus and Doris.
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Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 58 According to Hesiod, Euphrosyne and her sisters Thalia and Aglaea were daughters of Zeus and the Oceanid Eurynome.Hesiod, Theogony, 907 Alternative parentage may be Zeus and Eurydome, Eurymedousa, or Euanthe; Dionysus and Kronois; or Helios and the Naiad Aegle.Cornutus, Compendium of Greek Theology, 15Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 15.87 & 48.530Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.35.5 In art, Euphrosyne is usually depicted with her sisters dancing.
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When the ship stops on Aeaea, home of Circe the goddess-sorceress, daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, Eurylochus and Odysseus draw lots to lead a group of twenty-two men to explore the island. Eurylochus is chosen. After the crew spots a column of smoke, Eurylochus leads his expedition towards the source. They near a palace surrounded with wild but magically benign animals.
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Aglaea is the Greek goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment. She is the youngest of the Charites according to Hesiod.Hesiod, Theogony, 945 Aglaea is one of three daughters of Zeus and either the Oceanid Eurynome, or of Eunomia, the goddess of good order and lawful conduct. Her two sisters are Euphrosyne, the goddess of joy or mirth, and Thalia, the goddess of festivity and rich banquets.
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Other authors give Echidna other parents. According to the geographer Pausanias (2nd century AD), Epimenides (7th or 6th century BC) had Echidna as the daughter of the Oceanid Styx (goddess of the river Styx) and one Peiras (otherwise unknown to Pausanias),Epimenides apud Pausanias, 8.18.2; Fowler 2013, p. 9. while according to the mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD), Echidna was the daughter of Tartarus and Gaia.
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The poet Nonnus in the Dionysiaca, makes the Hydaspes a titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra, an Oceanid. He was the brother of Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. Hydaspes fathered by Astris, daughter of Helios, Deriades the king of Pentapotamia.Nonnus. Dionysiaca 17.282, 21.225, 23.236, 26.362 He supported the Indians in their war against the invading armies of the god Dionysos.
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Gaia and Pontus' third and fourth children, Phorcys and Ceto, married each other and produced the two Graiae: Pemphredo and Enyo, and the three Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa. Poseidon mated with Medusa and two offspring, the winged horse Pegasus and the warrior Chrysaor, were born when the hero Perseus cut off Medusa's head. Chrysaor married Callirhoe, another Oceanid, and they produced the three-headed Geryon.Theogony 270-294.
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In one branch of Greek mythology, Hera ejected Hephaestus from the heavens because he was "shrivelled of foot". He fell into the ocean and was raised by Thetis (mother of Achilles and one of the 50 Nereids) and the Oceanid Eurynome.Homeric Hymn to Apollo 316–321; Homer, Iliad 395–405. In another account, Hephaestus, attempting to rescue his mother from Zeus' advances, was flung down from the heavens by Zeus.
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According to Apollodorus, she was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and MenoetiusApollodorus, 1.2.3. although Hesiod gives the name of another Oceanid, Clymene, as their mother.Hesiod, Theogony 507-511. It is possible that the name Asia became preferred over Hesiod's Clymene to avoid confusion with the Clymene who was mother of Phaethon by Helios in some accounts and must have been perceived as a distinct figure.
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Oceanid, by Annie Swynnerton Sailors routinely honored and entreated the Oceanids, dedicating prayers, libations, and sacrifices to them. Appeals to them were made to protect seafarers from storms and other nautical hazards. Before they began their legendary voyage to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece, the Argonauts made an offering of flour, honey, and sea to the ocean deities, sacrificed bulls to them, and entreated their protection from the dangers of their journey.Kemp, s.v.
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Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon;Hesiod, Theogony 286–288; Apollodorus, 2.5.10. Clymene, the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus;Hesiod, Theogony 351, however according to Apollodorus, 1.2.3, another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus; Perseis, wife of Helios and mother of Circe and Aeetes;Hesiod, Theogony 956–957; Apollodorus, 1.9.1. Idyia, wife of Aeetes and mother of Medea;Hesiod, Theogony 958–962; Apollodorus, 1.9.23.
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' by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1811) According to Hesiod's Theogony, Iris is the daughter of Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra and the sister of the Harpies: Aello and Ocypete. During the Titanomachy, Iris was the messenger of the Olympian gods while her twin sister Arke betrayed the Olympians and became the messenger of the Titans. She is the goddess of the rainbow. She also serves nectar to the gods and goddesses to drink.
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In Greek mythology, Telesto or Telestho ( ; English translation: "success") was an Oceanid, one of the 3,000 daughters of Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Hesiod describes her as "wearing a yellow peplos".Hesiod, Theogony, 358 Telesto was the personification of the divine blessing or success.The Mythology of the Night Sky: An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek legends by David E. Falkner Telesto, a moon of Saturn, discovered in 1980 by Reitsema, Smith, Larson, and Fountain, is named for her.
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Cronus was said to be the father of the wise centaur Chiron by the Oceanid Philyra, who was subsequently transformed into a linden tree.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1200Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 197Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1235 citing Pherecydes The Titan chased the nymph and consorted with her in the shape of a stallion, hence the half- human, half-equine shape of their offspring;Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2. 1231 ffScholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.
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Calypso is generally said to be the daughter of the Titan AtlasHomer, Odyssey, 1.14, 1.51-54, 7.245; Apollodorus, E.7.24. She is sometimes referred to as Atlantis (Ατλαντίς), which means the daughter of Atlas, see the entry Ατλαντίς in Liddell & Scott, and also Hesiod, Theogony 938. and Pleione.Hyginus. Fabulae, Preface Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, mention either a different Calypso or possibly the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid daughters of Tethys and Oceanus.
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La Calliroe is an opera in three acts by Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Matteo Verazi that is based on Greek legends about the Oceanid Callirrhoe. This opera (and all the rest of Mysliveček's operas) belong to the serious type in Italian language referred to as opera seria. Vocal pieces from the opera composed for the singer Luigi Marchesi in the role of Tarsile were widely copied in eighteenth-century collections of operatic arias.
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Noted in Kerenyi 1951:191, note 595. By the Oceanid Perse, Helios became the father of Aeëtes, Circe, Perses (brother of Aeetes) and Pasiphaë. His other children are Phaethusa ("radiant") and Lampetia ("shining").Theoi Project: Lampetia and Phaethusa As father of Aeëtes, Helios was also the grandfather of Medea and would play a significant in Euripides' rendition of her fate in Corinth, offering her his chariot when she has to escape after murdering her own children to punish her impious husband Jason.
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In Greek mythology, Perses (; Ancient Greek: Πέρσης) was the son of Andromeda and Perseus, and taken for Achaemenes (of the Pasargadae) as the ancestor of the Persians according to Plato. Apparently the Persians knew the story as Xerxes tried to use it to bribe the Argives during his invasion of Greece, but ultimately failed to do so.Herodotus vii.150 Perses was left in Cossaei and with the Oceanid Perse became the father of the Perseides or in other words, Achaemenid Persians.
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In Greek mythology, Plouto or Pluto (Πλουτώ "Wealth") was, according to the late 8th-early 7th century BC Greek poet Hesiod, and the probably nearly as old Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, one of the many Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.Smith, s.v. Pluto 1; Hesiod, Theogony 337-355; Homeric Hymn 2.5, 2.418-423. Hesiod calls her "soft eyed", and the Homeric Hymn has her as one of the "deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus" who were the playmates of Persephone when she was abducted by Hades.
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Until this time, because Clymenes are relatively remote and were regarded as very similar to the more accessible spinners, they were never heavily studied. Anatomical and behavioral traits suggested that this species is a hybrid of the spinner dolphin and striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba), and DNA testing has shown that it is indeed a hybrid species. The common and scientific names are probably derived from the Greek oceanid Clymene, although it has also been argued that it may instead come from the Greek word for "notorious".
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Laconic bowl depicting Prometheus and Atlas enduring their respective punishments, circa 550 B.C. The Theogony, after listing the offspring of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, as Atlas, Menoitios, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and telling briefly what happened to each, tells the story of Prometheus.Theogony 507-616. When the gods and men met at Mekone to decide how sacrifices should be distributed, Prometheus sought to trick Zeus. Slaughtering an ox, he took the valuable fat and meat, and covered it with the ox's stomach.
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52 At that moment, a Chorus of Spirits appears and celebrates Prometheus's secret knowledge, which then break into accounts of dying individuals and the ultimate triumph of good people over evil. The spirits together tell Prometheus, "Thou shalt quell this horseman grim, / Woundless though in heart or limb," an act which shall happen because of Prometheus's secret.Shelley 1820 p. 59 The spirits depart, leaving Ione and Panthea to discuss the spirits' message with Prometheus, and Prometheus recalls the Oceanid Asia, and the Act ends with Panthea telling Prometheus that Asia awaits him.
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The Birth of Minerva by René-Antoine Houasse (before 1688) Zeus married seven wives. His first wife was the Oceanid Metis, whom he impregnated with Athena, then, on the advice of Gaia and Uranus, swallowed Metis so that no son of his by Metis would overthrow him, as had been foretold.Theogony 886-900. Zeus' second wife was his aunt the Titan Themis, who bore the three Horae (Seasons): Eunomia (Order), Dikē (Justice), Eirene (Peace); and the three Moirai (Fates):At 217 the Moirai are the daughters of Nyx.
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According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which would make Medusa's offspring Chrysaor the father of Echidna.Hesiod, Theogony 270-300. Though Herbert Jennings Rose says simply that it is "not clear which parents are meant", Athanassakis, p. 44, says that Phorcys and Ceto are the "more likely candidates for parents of this hideous creature who proceeded to give birth to a series of monsters and scourges".
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And so since she knew that Jason could not perform the commands without help of Medea, she asked Aphrodite to inspire Medea, daughter of Aeetes and the Oceanid Idyia, with love. At Aphrodite's instigation, the witch conceived a passion for the man. Fearing lest that Jason might be destroyed by the bulls, she, keeping the thing from her father, promised to help him to yoke the bulls and to deliver to him the fleece. Medea also asked the hero to swear to have her to become his wife and would take her with him on the voyage to Greece.
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The Titans, Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, and Cronus married their sisters Tethys, Theia, Phoebe and Rhea, and Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. From Oceanus and Tethys came the three thousand river gods (including Nilus (Nile), Alpheus, and Scamander) and three thousand Oceanid river nymphs (including Doris, Electra, Callirhoe, Styx, Clymene, Metis, Eurynome, Perseis, and Idyia). From Theia and Hyperion came Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn), and from Crius and Eurybia came Astraios, Pallas, and Perses. From Eos and Astraios came the winds: Zephyrus, Boreas and Notos, Eosphoros (Dawn-bringer, i.e.
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132–133) has Lamia as the mother of Scylla, possibly the Lamia who was the daughter of Poseidon. For discussions of the parentage of Scylla, see Fowler 2013, p. 32, Ogden 2013a, p. 134; Gantz, pp. 731–732; and Frazer's note to Apollodorus, E7.20. The Harpies, in Hesiod the daughters of Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra,Hesiod, Theogony, 265–269; so also Apollodorus, 1.2.6, and Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (though Fabulae 14, gives their parents as Thaumas and Oxomene). In the Epimenides Theogony (3B7) they are the daughters of Oceanus and Gaia, while in Pherecydes of Syros (7B5) they are the daughters of Boreas (Gantz, p. 18).
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In most versions of the legend, Io was the daughter of Inachus,Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 590Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2.1.3Herodotus, Histories, 1.1Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.583 though various other purported genealogies are also known. If her father was Inachus, then her mother would presumably have been Inachus' wife (and sister) the Oceanid nymph Melia, daughter of Oceanus.For Melai as wife of Inachus see Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2.1.1 The 2nd century AD geographer Pausanias also suggests that she is the daughter of Inachus and retells the story of Zeus falling in love with Io, the legendary wrath of Hera, and the metamorphosis by which Io becomes a beautiful white heifer.
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An Old English name abele, now never used, is derived from the Latin albellus, white, by way of Old French aubel and Low German name abeel. Leuce/Leuka, the "White Poplar"; Leuce or Leuka (Ancient Greek: Λεύκη) ("White" or specifically "White Poplar") was the most beautiful of the nymphs and an Oceanid, a daughter of Oceanus. Pluto fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld. She lived out the span of her life in his realm, and when she died, the god sought consolation by creating a suitable memorial of their love: In the Elysian Fields, where the pious spend their afterlives, he brought forth a white tree into existence from her body, which became sacred for him from that moment on.
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The program was later joined by Italy. In 1996, a French-Italian team established a summer camp at Dome C. The two main objectives of the camp were the provision of logistical support for the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) and the construction of a permanent research station. The new all-year facility, Concordia Station, became operational in 2005. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) considers "Dome Charlie" to be superior to the informal name, "Dome C," and that it has precedence over "Dome Circe", a name suggested from Greek mythology after Circe, the bewitching queen of Aeaea island, one of the children of solar god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, who changed men into animals by magic, by members of the SPRI airborne radio echo sounding team in 1982.
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