Ocean
Family: Titans · Role: father of Triptolemus according to Pherecydes · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1
Ocean is one of the Titans, born to Sky and Earth. In Apollodorus, Ocean and Tethys produced the Oceanids Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis; Hesiod likewise presents Tethys as bearing rivers to Ocean, including Nilus, Alpheus, Eridanus, Strymon, Meander, Ister, Phasis, Rhesus, Achelous, Nessus, and Scamander.
His children also include Inachus, Callirrhoe, Meliboea, Pleione, and Asopus. Clymene, Perseis, and Idyia are described as daughters of Ocean, while Peitho and Admete are among the eldest daughters born from Ocean and Tethys. According to Pherecydes, Ocean is the father of Triptolemus with Earth.
Relationship record
Life events
- Ocean and Tethys produced the Oceanids, including Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis.(Apollodorus, Library 1.2)
Apollodorus, Library 1.1
- parent: Sky “And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus; also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia.”
- parent: Earth “And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus; also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.2
- child: Metis “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis”
- child: Asia “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia”
- child: Styx “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx”
- child: Electra “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra”
- child: Doris “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris”
- child: Eurynome “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome”
- child: Amphitrite “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite”
Apollodorus, Library 1.5
- child: Triptolemus “Pherecydes, however, says that he was a son of Ocean and Earth.”
Apollodorus, Library 2.1
- child: Inachus “Ocean and Tethys had a son Inachus”
Apollodorus, Library 2.5
- child: Callirrhoe (Callirrhoe is the daughter of Ocean.) “Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.8
- child: Meliboea “Meliboea, daughter of Ocean”
Apollodorus, Library 3.10
- child: Pleione “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.12
- child: Asopus “The Asopus river was a son of Ocean and Tethys”
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404
- with Tethys (interaction) “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers”
- with Tethys (interaction) “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers”
- child: Styx “These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys”
- parent: Styx “So deathless Styx came first to Olympus with her children through the wit of her dear father.”
- child: Nilus “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus”
- child: Alpheus “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus”
- child: Eridanus “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus”
- child: Strymon “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
- child: Meander “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
- child: Ister “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
- child: Phasis “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
- child: Rhesus “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
- child: Achelous “the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus”
- child: Nessus “the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus”
- child: Scamander “Ladon, Parthenius, Euenus, Ardescus, and divine Scamander”
- child: Peitho “These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys”
- child: Admete “These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys”
Hesiod, Theogony 453-561
- child: Clymene “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean”
Hesiod, Theogony 713-820
- child: Styx “And there dwells the goddess loathed by the deathless gods, terrible Styx, eldest daughter of back-flowing Ocean.”
Hesiod, Theogony 869-975
- parent: Perseis “Perseis, the daughter of Ocean”
- child: Idyia “Idyia, daughter of Ocean the perfect stream”
- child: Perseis “And Perseis, the daughter of Ocean”
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