Oceanus
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Ocean · 0ceanus · Ocean's foundations · backflowing Ocean · deep-swirling Oceanus · great Oceanus
spoken of as
1 expressionOcean“Oceanus”1 mention
Cratylus (Greek)
Just so Homer, too, says— Ocean the origin of the gods, and their mother Tethys;
in the texts
Theogony
Titan god of the world-encircling river-ocean, son of Earth and Heaven, who with Tethys fathers the rivers and the Oceanid daughters.
But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus,
Earth, too, and great Oceanus, and dark Night, and the holy race of all the other deathless ones that are for ever.
And Tethys bore to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Aesepus, and holy Simois, and Peneus, and Hermus, and Caicus ' fair stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius,
Timaeus
Traditional god, offspring of Heaven and Earth in the inherited genealogy of the gods.
that we record Oceanus and Salacia as generated and brought forth from the sowing of Heaven and the conceiving of Earth;
Cratylus
Titan god of the cosmic river, cited by three poets as the origin of the gods and husband of Tethys.
Just so Homer, too, says— Ocean the origin of the gods, and their mother Tethys;
Theaetetus
Primordial god named by Homer as the origin of the gods, cited as evidence for the doctrine of flux.
And on this subject all the philosophers, except Parmenides, may be marshalled in one line—Protagoras and Heracleitus and Empedocles—and the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry, Epicharmus, in comedy, and in tragedy, Homer, who, in the line 0ceanus the origin of the gods, and Tethys their mother, has said that all things are the offspring of flow and motion;