Oceanid

The Oceanids (Greek Ὠκεανίδες, plural of Ὠκεανίς ) are in Greek mythology, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, only Hyginus are than their parents and Pontos Mare.

Their action spaces of the sea and fresh waters, which they share with the Nereids and the nymphs and of which they are not always distinguished.

Most of them are just poetic names that were not further differentiated mythological, mythology and the cult they only play a minor role.

In ancient depictions appear in female form, only Eurynome of which is shown in deviation with fish tail.

Name of Oceanids

Hesiod 's Theogony in their number and their brethren the Potamoi (Greek Ποταμοί, rivers), with 3000, but counts only the 41 oldest Oceanids by name. More Okeanidenkataloge found

• In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,
• The fragments of the Orphic,
• In the Libraries of Apollodorus,
• In Hyginus and
• In Virgil 's Georgics.

Other authors mention only single Oceanids in certain contexts. To be listed by name in Homer's Iliad and in the Odyssey only Eurynome only Perse.

Virgil has the directory Oceanids strong resemblance to a Nereidenkatalog, but two of the enumerated names are explicitly designated as Oceanids. Other authors refer to goddesses like Nemesis or Tyche as Oceanids, others are only these eponymous name givers for places around Dodona for the oracle at Dodona or Ephyra for Corinth.