Oceanus

deity water Greek corroborated · 22

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #420 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 22 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in a lost 5th-century BC poem by Pindar as father of Amalthea.

Relationships

consort of
Tethys
syncretized with
Neptune
allied with
Helios, Atlas, Ares, Prometheus
aspect of
Titans
enemy of
Olympians, Zeus
child of
Gaia, Terra, Uranus

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Sources

Source passages

“Hyginus mentions Althaea, who has been interpreted as Amalthea; he calls this figure one of the daughters of Ocean (that is, the Titan Oceanus)”

#8978 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“She has been described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, thus one of the Oceanids, or of Zeus, or even Prometheus. She was connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon ("good spirit").”

#10611 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“However, for Epimenides, her father was Oceanus”

#11474 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“On some reliefs, there is a bearded figure identified as the water god Oceanus, and on some there are the gods of the four winds. In these reliefs, the four elements could be invoked together.”

#16895 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In Greek mythology, Asia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσία) was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. In some accounts, her mother was called Pompholyge and sister of Libye.”

#27736 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001