List of Oceanids

Oceanus is a god in ancient Greek mythology. This is a list of his daughters, who are known collectively as the Oceanids.

According to Hesiod,[1] the total number of Oceanus' children was 6000, composed of 3000 daughters and 3000 sons (these are called Potamoi), but only a relatively small number of their names is actually attested throughout accounts of Greek mythology.

List

Named Oceanids
Name Hes. [2] Hom. H. [3] Apoll. [4] Hyg. [5] Other sources / Comments
Acaste ✓ ✓
Admete ✓ ✓ ✓
Adrasteia ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 182
Aethra ✓ Hyginus, Astronomica 2.21; Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 90c Fowler; Ovid, Fasti 5.171
Aetna Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Παλιχη
Amalthea ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 182;[6] Schol. ad Hom. II. 21.194; usually not an Oceanid, e.g. Apollodorus, 2.7.5
Amphirho ✓
Amphitrite ✓ Also Apollodorus, 1.4.5; the name of a Nereid at Hesiod, Theogony, 243, 254, and Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Argia
or Argea
✓ Also Hyginus, Fabulae 143
Asia ✓ ✓ Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Pompholyge);[7] the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Asterodia Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.242 (Parisian, Florentine).
Asterope Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Akragantes
Beroe Virgil, Georgics 4.341; cf. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Callirhoe ✓ ✓ ✓ Apollodorus, 2.5.10
Calypso ✓ ✓ The name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7; "probably not" the same as the Calypso who was the lover of Odysseus[8]
Camarina Pindar, Olympian 5.1–4
Capheira Diodorus Siculus, 5.55
Cerceis ✓
Ceto Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355; the name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Chryseis ✓ ✓
Clio
or Cleio
Virgil, Georgics 4.341; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Clitemneste ✓
Clymene ✓ ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 156; Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.359; possibly the same as at Virgil, Georgics 4.345; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Clytie
or Clytia
✓ ✓
Coryphe Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.59
Daeira Pausanias, 1.38.7; cf. Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 45 Fowler (called a sister of Styx)
Dione ✓ The name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Dodone Epaphroditus, fr. 57 Braswell–Billerbeck[9]
Doris ✓ ✓ The name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Electra ✓ ✓ ✓
Ephyra ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 275.6; Eumelus fr. 1 Fowler (apud Pausanias, 2.1.1); possibly the same as at Virgil, Georgics 4.343; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Euagoreis ✓
Eudora ✓ The name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Europa ✓ Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Parthenope);[10] not the Europa who was abducted by Zeus, became the mother of Minos, and for whom the continent of Europe was named
Eurynome ✓ ✓ ✓ Also Apollodorus, 1.3.1
Galaxaura ✓ ✓
Hesione Acusilaus, fr. 34 Fowler; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 560.
Hestyaea ✓
Hippo ✓
Iache ✓
Ianeira
or Ianira
✓ ✓ The name of a Nereid at Homer, Iliad 18.47; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Ianthe ✓ ✓ ✓
Ida ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 182[11]
Idyia
or Eidyia
✓ ✓ Apollodorus, 1.9.23; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.243–244
Leucippe ✓
Libye Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Pompholyge)[12]
Lyris ✓
Melia ✓ Apollodorus, 2.1.1; Pindar, fr. 52k 43; Pausanias, 9.10.5[13]
Meliboea ✓ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
Melite ✓ ✓ The name of a Nereid at Hesiod, Theogony 247; Homer, Iliad 18.42; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Melobosis ✓ ✓
Menestho ✓
Menippe ✓
Mentis ✓
Merope ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 154
Metis ✓ ✓ Also Apollodorus, 1.2.1
Mopsopia Suda, s.v. Εὐφορίων, according to which, Mopsopia, an old name for Attica, was supposed to have come from her
Nemesis Pausanias, 1.33.3; a daughter of Nyx at Hesiod, Theogony 223; and Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 1
Ocyrhoe ✓ ✓
Pasiphae ✓
Pasithoe ✓
Peitho ✓ Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 66 Fowler.
Periboea Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.248
Perse
or Perseis
✓ ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 156;[14] Homer, Odyssey 10.139; Hecataeus of Miletus, fr. 35A Fowler; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.48; Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.358; also Hesiod, Theogony 956
Petraea ✓
Phaeno ✓
Philyra ✓ Hyginus, Fabulae 138; Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 50 Fowler; cf. Callimachus, Hymn 1—To Zeus 33–36
Pleione ✓ ? Apollodorus, 3.10.1; Ovid, Fasti 5.81–84; cf. Hyginus, Fabulae 192
Plexaura ✓
Plouto
or Pluto
✓ ✓
Polydora ✓
Polyphe Suda, s.v. Ἱππεία Ἀθηνᾶ
Polyxo ✓
Prymno ✓
Rhodea,
Rhodeia,
or Rhodia
✓ ✓ Greek: Ῥόδειά
Rhodope ✓ ✓
Rhodos
or Rhode
Epimenides, fr. 11 Fowler; the daughter of Poseidon at Apollodorus, 1.4.5; Herodorus, fr. 62 Fowler; and Diodorus Siculus, 5.55
The Sirens Epimenides, fr. 8 Fowler; usually the daughters of Achelous, e.g. Apollodorus, 1.3.4, 1.7.10, E.7.18; Hyginus, Fabulae 125.13, 141.1; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.896.[15]
Stilbo ✓
Styx ✓ ✓ ✓ Epimenides, fr. 7 Fowler; a daughter of Nyx at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 1
Telesto ✓
Thoe ✓ The name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Thraike Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Parthenope)[16]
Tyche ✓ ✓
Urania ✓ ✓ Not the Muse Urania
Xanthe ✓
Zeuxo ✓

Notes

  1. ↑ Hesiod; Theogony, 364-370
  2. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361.
  3. ↑ Homeric Hymn, 2.418–423.
  4. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.2.2, except where otherwise indicated.
  5. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95), except where otherwise indicated.
  6. ↑ An outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Althaea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
  7. ↑ Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ad hoc invention.
  8. ↑ Caldwell, p. 49 n. 359, see also West 1966, p. 267 359. καὶ ἱμερόεσσα Καλυψώ; Hard, p. 41. Odysseus' Calypso is usually the daughter of the Titan Atlas, e.g. Homer, Odyssey 1.51–54.
  9. ↑ Braswell, pp. 240, 242; Harder, vol. 1 p. 196, vol. 2 p. 383.
  10. ↑ Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.
  11. ↑ An outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Idothea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
  12. ↑ Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ad hoc invention.
  13. ↑ The Theban Oceanid Melia of Pindar and Pausanias may be different from the Archive Oceanid Melia mentioned by Apollodorus.
  14. ↑ Here, spelled "Persis", spelled "Perses" at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 36.
  15. ↑ Fowler 2013, pp. 30–31.
  16. ↑ Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.

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