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The ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. In Greek mythology it was personified as a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaia. He married his sister Tethys, and from them came the ocean nymphs, also known as the three-thousand Oceanids, and all the rivers of the world.

Some scholars believe he originally represented all bodies of water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies the ancient Greeks knew of. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean while Poseidon ruled over the Mediterranean.

Consorts/Children

  1. With Tethys
    1. Achelous
    2. Alpheus
    3. Amaltheia
    4. Amphitrite
    5. Asia
    6. Asopus
    7. Callirhoe
    8. Cebren
    9. Cephissus
    10. Circe
    11. Clymene
    12. Crinisus
    13. Dione
    14. Doris
    15. Electra
    16. Enipeus
    17. Eurynome
    18. Inachus
    19. Lysithea
    20. Melia
    21. Peneus
    22. Perse
    23. Philyra
    24. Telesto