List of Oceanids

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Oceanus is a god in ancient Greek mythology. This is a list of his daughters, who are known collectively as the Oceanids.

According to Hesiod,[1] the total number of Oceanus' children was 6000, composed of 3000 daughters and 3000 sons (these are called Potamoi), but only a relatively small number of their names is actually attested throughout accounts of Greek mythology.

List[edit]

The following are the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys:[2][3][4][5][6]

  1. Acaste
  2. Admete
  3. Aethra
  4. Amphiro
  5. Amphitrite – usually counted as a Nereid rather than an Oceanid
  6. Anchiroe
  7. Anthracia – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  8. Argia
  9. Asia – nymph of the Asian region, sister to Europa
  10. Asterodia[7]
  11. Asterope – mother by Zeus of Acragas, eponym of several ancient cities known as Acragas, possibly including Acragas, Sicily[8]
  12. Beroe
  13. Bolbe
  14. Cleodora
  15. Callirrhoe
  16. Calypso
  17. Camarina[9]
  18. Capheira[10]
  19. Cerceis
  20. Ceto
  21. Chryseis
  22. Clio – not to be confused with the Muse Clio
  23. Clymene – wife of Iapetus
  24. Clytie or Clytia
  25. Crocale – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis[11][12]
  26. Daira – mother of Eleusis by Hermes[13]
  27. Dione
  28. Dodone
  29. Doris – wife of the sea god Nereus, mother of the fifty Nereides.
  30. Electra – wife of Thaumas, mother of Iris, Arke and the Harpies; not to be confused with other characters of the same name, see Electra (disambiguation)
  31. Ephyra
  32. Euagoreis
  33. Eudora
  34. Europa (not the Europa who was abducted by Zeus and became the mother of Minos)
  35. Eurynome
  36. Galaxaure
  37. Glauke – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  38. Hagno – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  39. Hesione – wife of Prometheus
  40. Hippo
  41. Hyale – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
  42. Iakhe
  43. Ianira
  44. Ianthe
  45. Idyia or Eidyia – wife of Aeetes, mother of Medea
  46. Ithome – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  47. Leucippe
  48. Lysithea
  49. Melia – sister of Caanthus
  50. Meliboea
  51. Melite
  52. Melobosis
  53. Menestho
  54. Merope
  55. Metis – goddess of wisdom, first spouse of Zeus
  56. Mopsopia – Attica was believed to have been previously named Mopsopia after her[14]
  57. Myrtoessa – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  58. Nede – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  59. Nemesis
  60. Nephele – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis; not to be confused with Nephele, goddess of clouds
  61. Ocyrrhoe
  62. Oinoe – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  63. Pasithoe
  64. Peitho
  65. Periboea
  66. Perse or Perseis – consort of Helios
  67. Petraea
  68. Phaino
  69. Phiale – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
  70. Philyra – mother of Chiron by Cronus
  71. Phrixa – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  72. Pleione – mother of the Pleiades by Atlas
  73. Plexaure
  74. Plouto or Pluto – mother of Tantalus by Zeus
  75. Polydora
  76. Polyphe – in a rare version, mother of Athena by Poseidon[15][16]
  77. Polyxo
  78. Prymno
  79. Psekas – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
  80. Rhanis – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
  81. Rhodea or Rhodeia
  82. Rhodope
  83. Stilbo
  84. Styx – Oceanid of the river Styx that flowed nine times around Hades; an exceptional female river goddess
  85. Telesto
  86. Theisoa – one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
  87. Thoe
  88. Tyche
  89. Urania – not to be confused with the Muse Urania
  90. Xanthe
  91. Zeuxo

Others: the text by Hyginus (Fabulae) is corrupted in places, making the names of a few of the Oceanids uncertain: *yaea; *lyris, *clintenneste, *teschinoeno.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hesiod; Theogony, 364-370
  2. ^ Hesiod; Theogony, 346 ff. (41 named)
  3. ^ Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 415
  4. ^ Pausanias, Guide to Greece, 8.31.4; 8.38.2; 8.47.3
  5. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.2
  6. ^ a b Hyginus; Fabulae, Preface: The text is corrupted in places, making the names of some of the daughters illegible.
  7. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 242
  8. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Akragantes
  9. ^ Pindar, Odes Olympian, V
  10. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, V.55
  11. ^ Callimachus, Hymn III to Artemis, 12
  12. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.155
  13. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 38. 7
  14. ^ Suidas s. v. Euphorion
  15. ^ Suidas s. v. Hippeia Athena
  16. ^ Theoi Project - Polyphe