Oceanus
Family: Gods · Role: deity · First appears: Fable 1
Life events
- Oceanus and Tethys purify Glaucus and remove his mortality.(Fable101)
Fable 1
- child: Amphitrite “She was the daughter of Oceanus and Doris, and the wife of Neptune, God of the Sea.”
Fable 18
- married with Tethys “[Footnote 3: Tethys.--Ver. 69. She was the daughter of Cœlus and Terra, and the wife of Oceanus. Her name is here used to signify the ocean itself.]”
- child: Ægeon “[Footnote 1: Ægeon.--Ver. 10. Homer makes him to be the same with Briareus. According to another account, which Ovid here follows, he was a sea God, the son of Oceanus and Terra.]”
Fable 25
- child: Chariclo (The text gives Oceanus as an alternative possible parent.) “She was the daughter of Apollo, or of Oceanus, but is supposed not to have been the same person that is mentioned by Apollodorus as the mother of the prophet Tiresias.”
Fable 34
- child: Nysa (Nysa is identified as Oceanus’s daughter.) “Hyginus also speaks of her as being the daughter of Oceanus.”
Fable 35
- child: Liriope “She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and was the mother of the youth Narcissus, by the river Cephisus.”
Fable 39
- child: Eurynome “Eurynome was the wife of Orchamus, and was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.”
Fable 101
- with Glaucus (Oceanus participated in removing Glaucus's mortality and purifying him.) “The Gods of the sea vouchsafed me, on being received by them, kindred honours, and they entreated Oceanus and Tethys to take away from me whatever mortality I bore. By them was I purified; and a charm being repeated over me nine times, that washes away {all} guilt, I was commanded to put my breast beneath a hundred streams.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.