Oceanus the Titan

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• Name	Oceanus the Titan
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus Oceanus«/b» («u»Greek «/u»: , lit. "ocean") was believed to be the «u»world-ocean «/u» in «u»classical antiquity «/u», which the «u»ancient Romans «/u» and «u»Greeks «/u» considered to be an enormous «u»river «/u» encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was the «u»ocean «/u»-stream at the «u»Equator «/u» in which floated the habitable «u»hemisphere «/u» («i»oikoumene«/i» «u»[1]«/u» In «u»Greek mythology «/u», this world-ocean was personified as a «u»Titan «/u», a son of «u»Uranus «/u» and «u»Gaia «/u». In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab), and the lower torso of a «u»serpent «/u» (cf. \ul«i»Typhon \ulnone«/i»). On a fragmentary archaic vessel (British Museum 1971.11-1.1) of ca 580 BC, among the gods arriving at the wedding of «u»Peleus «/u» and the sea-nymph «u»Thetis «/u», is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship. Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the «u»Mediterranean Sea «/u» and the «u»Atlantic Ocean «/u», the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean (also called the "«u»Ocean Sea «/u»"), while the newcomer of a later generation, «u»Poseidon «/u», ruled over the Mediterranean. Oceanus' consort is his sister «u»Tethys «/u», and from their union came the ocean «u»nymphs «/u», also known as the three-thousand «u»Oceanids «/u», and all the rivers of the world, fountains, and lakes.«u»[2]«/u» From «u»Cronus «/u», of the race of Titans, the «u»Olympian gods «/u» have their birth, and «u»Hera «/u» mentions twice in \ul«i»Iliad \ulnone«/i» book xiv her intended journey "to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Okeanos, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house."«u»[3]«/u» In most variations of the war between the Titans and the «u»Olympians «/u», or «u»Titanomachy «/u», Oceanus, along with «u»Prometheus «/u» and «u»Themis «/u», did not take the side of his fellow Titans against the Olympians, but instead withdrew from the conflict. In most variations of this myth, Oceanus also refused to side with «u»Cronus «/u» in the latter's revolt against their father, «u»Uranus «/u». In the \ul«i»Iliad \ulnone«/i», the rich iconography of «u»Achilles «/u»' shield, which was fashioned by «u»Hephaestus «/u», is enclosed, as the world itself was believed to be, by Oceanus: Then, running round the shield-rim, triple-ply, he pictured all the might of the Ocean stream. When «u»Odysseus «/u» and «u»Nestor «/u» walk together along the shore of the sounding sea (\ul«i»Iliad \ulnone«/i» ix.182) their prayers are addressed "to the great Sea-god who girdles the world." It is to Oceanus, not to Poseidon, that their thoughts are directed. Invoked in passing by poets and figured as the father of rivers and streams, thus the progenitor of «u»river gods «/u», Oceanus appears only once in myth, as a representative of the archaic world that «u»Heracles «/u» constantly threatened and bested.«u»[4]«/u» Heracles forced the loan from Helios of his golden bowl, in order to cross the wide expanse of the Ocean on his trip to the «u»Hesperides «/u». When Oceanus tossed the bowl, Heracles threatened him and stilled his waves. The journey of Heracles in the sun-bowl upon Oceanus was a favored theme among painters of Attic pottery. «b»References «u»1. ^\ulnone«/b» See «u»Stecchini, "Ancient Cosmology" <http://www.metrum.org/mapping/cosmol.htm>«/u». \ul«b»2. ^\ulnone«/b» The late classical poet «u»Nonnus «/u» mentioned "the Limnai [Lakes)], liquid daughters of Okeanos." (Nonnus, «i»Dionysiaca«/i» 6.352) \ul«b»3. ^\ulnone«/b» «i»Iliad xiv. 200 and 244.«/i» \ul«b»4. ^\ulnone«/b» The «u»Suda «/u» identifies Okeanos and Tethys as the parents of the two «u»Kerkopes «/u», whom Heracles also bested. \ul«b»5. ^\ulnone«/b» «u»Dacia Preistorica <http://www.pelasgians.org>«/u», Nicolae Densusianu (1913). (Research):http://fabpedigree.com/s058/f166097.htm Elder GOD of the Sea; aka Okeanos the River Ocean \b
  Person ID	I61429	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2015

  
  

  Father	Uranus, 1st Ruler GOD of the Universe   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Gaia (Gaea) the Earth GODDESS   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F551617645	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Tethys the Titan   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Nilus, the River God   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Doris the Oceanid   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Philyra the Oceanid   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Peneus the River God, King of Arcadia   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Sperchius the River God   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Clymene the Oceanid   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Callirrhoe the Oceanid   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Pleione the Oceanid   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Phorcus the Titan   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F551617644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Photos

  Oceanus Oceanus in the Trevi Fountain, Rome.