Oceanus

Eldest Titan, the world-encircling river, father of waters.

Parentage

• father: UranusHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
• mother: GaiaHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)

Children

• Achelous
• Asopus
• Styx
• Tyche
• Ladon (river)
• Pleione

Children in alternative accounts

• Achelous: Hesiod: Oceanus and TethysHesiod, Theogony 337–345 (primary)
• Asopus: Oceanus and TethysApollodorus, Library 3.12.6 (primary)

Domains

• encircling ocean
• fresh waters

Powers

• Begets all rivers and the three thousand Oceanids
• Primeval source from whom the gods and all waters spring

Epithets

• ἀψόρροος greek · apsorroos · HomericBack-flowing; the world-encircling river that flows back upon itselfHom. Il. 18.399; Od. 20.65 (ἀψορρόου Ὠκεανοῖο) (primary)
• βαθυρρείτης greek · bathyrreites · HomericDeep-flowing; the deep-streaming source of all watersHom. Il. 7.422 (Ὠκεανοῖο βαθυρρόου); 14.311 (primary)
• θεῶν γένεσις Greek · theōn genesis · literaryorigin of the godsHomer, Iliad 14 (primary)

Relations

• sibling: CoeusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: CriusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: CronusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: HyperionFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: IapetusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: MnemosyneFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: PhoebeFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: RheaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TethysFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TheiaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: ThemisFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: The ErinyesFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• father: UranusHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
• mother: GaiaHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
• counterpart of: OkeanosTradition-specific counterpart; this link does not transfer parentage.Orphic Hymns 82 (Taylor; modern 83) (primary)
• child: AchelousHesiod, Theogony 337–345 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hesiod, Theogony 133 (primary)