god
Oceanus
Ocean
also: Ὠκεανός, Ocean
The Titan personification of the great river encircling the world; father of the Oceanid nymphs who are Persephone's companions (Hymn 2), and the western horizon the sun sinks into and rises from (Hymns 4, 31, 32).
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §4.30 Ocean
The Titan personification of the great river encircling the world; father of the Oceanid nymphs who are Persephone's companions (Hymn 2), and the western horizon the sun sinks into and rises from (Hymns 4, 31, 32).
- The Odyssey §4.555 Ocean
The world-river personified, said to send the cooling West Wind through Elysium.