Greek Tragedy

Okeanos

Also known as: Okean / Okean. · Family: Gods · Role: god · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

  • friends with Zeus “And Prometheus, the son of Earth or Themis, though one of the Titans, supported Zeus, as did also Okeanos”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 2

  • friends with Prometheus “Come then, tell me how to help thee; / Ne'er shalt thou say that one more friendly / Is found than unto thee is Okean.”
  • with Prometheus (They are explicitly described as kindred, but no specific kinship type is given.) “Force, in part, I deem, of kindred / Leads me on, nor know I any, / Whom, apart from kin, I honour / More than thee, in fuller measure.”
  • pupil: Prometheus “But thou, if thou wilt take me as thy teacher, Wilt not kick out against the pricks; seeing well A monarch reigns who gives account to none.”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3

  • friends with Prometheus (Okeanos expresses pity and concern for Prometheus.) “Yea, lest thy pity for me make a foe....”

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