Oceanids
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(Oceanides) Greek The many
daughters of the two Titan deities, Oceanus, the
ancient god of water, and his wife and sister, Tethys.
The Oceanids were the female personalities given
to the rivers and streams of the lands of ancient
Greece. They were also known as Nymphs or lesser
goddesses. Hesiod, the Greek poet whose works
date to about 800 b.c., wrote that there were more
than 3,000 Oceanids, but he named only 41, among
them Styx, Electra, and Calypso. The Oceanids
were very closely related to the Nereids, nymphs
of the Mediterranean Sea. They were also sisters to
the lesser gods of the rivers, after whom many rivers
themselves were named: the Nile, the Eridanus, and
the Sangarius.
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- Neda Greek One of the oldest of the Oceanids, sea Nymph daughters of the Titan gods, Oceanus and Tethys; considered by many Greek writers to be a second-generation Titan.
- Oceanids (Oceanides) Greek The many daughters of the two Titan deities, Oceanus, the ancient god of water, and his wife and sister, Tethys.
- Oceanus Greek The Titan son of Gaia and Uranus and the brother and husband of the Titan Tethys; father of all the Oceanids and all the rivers and seas of the world.
- Pleiades (Sailing Ones) Greek Seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Oceanids; sisters of the Hyades.