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Alcmena and Oceanids

Oceanids pouring rain around Alcmene.

The Oceanids are the three thousand nymphs in Greek mythology, that were the children of Oceanus and Tethys. They are goddesses of freshwater. Some Oceanids became goddesses of different aspects.

List of Oceanids[]

Named Oceanids
Name Sources Notes
Hes.[1] Hom. Hymn[2] Ap.[3] Hyg.[4] Other
Acaste ✓ ✓ Only mentioned by name in a single myth
Admete ✓ ✓ ✓
Adrasteia ✓[5] Apollodorus, 1.1.6 makes the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus, daughters of Melisseus, leader of the Kuretes of Crete
Aethra ✓[6] [7]
Aetna [8]
Amalthea ✓[9] [10] Nurse of Zeus, but not always an Oceanid[11]
Amphirho ✓
Amphitrite ✓+[12] The name of a Halia[13]
Argia ✓+[14] Mother of Phoroneus, by Inachus, according to Hyginus[15] however according to Apollodorus, the mother of Phoroneus was an Oceanid named Melia.[16]
Asia ✓ ✓ [17] The name of a Halia[18]
Asterodia [19]
Asterope [20]
Beroe [21] The name of a Halia[18]
Callirhoe ✓ ✓ ✓[22]
Calypso ✓ ✓ The name of a Halia;[23] "probably not" the same as the Calypso who was the lover of Odysseus[24]
Camarina [25]
Capheira [26]
Cerceis ✓
Ceto [27] The name of a Halia[23]
Chryseis ✓ ✓
Clio [28] The name of a Halia[18]
Clitemneste ✓
Clymene ✓ ✓[29] [30] The name of a Halia[18]
Clytie ✓ ✓
Coryphe [31]
Daeira [32]
Dione ✓ The name of a Halia[23]
Dodone [33]
Doris ✓ ✓ The name of a Halia[18]
Electra ✓ ✓ ✓
Ephyra ✓[34] [35] The name of a Halia[18]
Euagoreis ✓
Eudora ✓ The name of a Halia[36] and one of the Hyades[37]
Europa ✓ [38]
Eurynome ✓ ✓+[39] ✓ [40]
Galaxaura ✓ ✓
Hesione [41]
Hestyaea ✓
Hippo ✓
Iache ✓
Ianeira ✓ ✓ The name of a Halia[42]
Ianthe ✓ ✓ ✓
Ida ✓[43] Apollodorus, 1.1.6 makes the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus, daughters of Melisseus, leader of the Kuretes of Crete
Idyiaor Eidyia ✓ ✓[44] [45]
Leucippe ✓
Libya [46]
Lyris ✓
Lysithoe [47] Mother of Heracles by Zeus.[48]
Melia (consort of Apollo) [49] See also (below) the Argive Oceanid Melia who was the consort of Inachus
Melia ✓[16] Mother of Phoroneus by Inachus, according to Apollodorus,[16] however, according to Hyginus, the mother of Phoroneus was Argia.[15] See also (above) the Theban Oceanid Melia who was the consort of Apollo
Meliboea ✓[50]
Melite ✓ ✓[18] The name of a Halia[51]
Melobosis ✓ ✓
Menestho ✓
Menippe ✓
Mentis ✓
Merope ✓[52]
Metis ✓ ✓[53]
Mopsopia [54]
Neaera [55]
Nemesis [56] A daughter of Nyx according to Hesiod and Hyginus[57]
Ocyrhoe ✓ ✓
Pasiphae ✓
Pasithoe ✓
Peitho ✓ [58]
Periboea [59]
Perseor Perseis ✓+[60] ✓[61] [62]
Petraea ✓
Phaeno ✓
Philyra ✓[63] [64]
Pleione ✓[65] ✓[66] [67]
Plexaura ✓ The name of a Halia[23]
Plouto or Pluto ✓ ✓
Polydora ✓
Polyphe [68]
Polyxo ✓
Prymno ✓
Rhodea,

Rhodeia, or Rhodia

✓ ✓
Rhodope ✓ ✓
Rhodosor Rhode [69] A daughter of Poseidon[70]
The Sirens [71] Usually the daughters of Achelous[72][73]
Stilbo ✓
Styx ✓ ✓ ✓ [74] According to Hyginus a daughter of Nyx[75]
Telesto ✓
Theia [76] Mother of the Cercopes
Thoe ✓ The name of a Halia[18]
Thraike [77]
Tyche ✓ ✓
Urania ✓ ✓
Xanthe ✓ [78] The name of a Halia[18]
Zeuxo ✓

References[]

  1. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 349–361.
  2. ↑ Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423.
  3. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.2.2, except where otherwise indicated.
  4. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95), except where otherwise indicated.
  5. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 182
  6. ↑ Hyginus, Astronomica 2.21
  7. ↑ Pherecydes, fr. 90c Fowler; Ovid, Fasti 5.171
  8. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Παλιχη
  9. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 182; an outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Althaea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
  10. ↑ Scholia ad Homer, IIiad 21.194
  11. ↑ According to Apollodorus, 2.7.5, she was the daughter of Haemonius, according to others she was a goat, see Frazer's note 3.
  12. ↑ Also Apollodorus, 1.4.5
  13. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony, 243, 254, and Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  14. ↑ Also Hyginus, Fabulae 143
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Hyginus, Fabulae 143
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Apollodorus, 2.1.1
  17. ↑ According to Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7, Asia was the daughter of Oceanus and Pompholyge, see Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls the name Pompholyge, an ad hoc invention.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 18.8 Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
  19. ↑ Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.242 (Parisian, Florentine).
  20. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Akragantes
  21. ↑ Virgil, Georgics 4.341 calls Clio and Beroe "sisters, ocean-children both", possibly meaning they were Oceanids; cf. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153
  22. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.5.10
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  24. ↑ 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.
  25. ↑ Pindar, Olympian Odes 5.1–4
  26. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 5.55
  27. ↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355
  28. ↑ Virgil, Georgics 4.341 calls Clio and Beroe "sisters, ocean-children both", possibly meaning they were Oceanids.
  29. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 156
  30. ↑ Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.359; possibly the same as the Clymene at Virgil, Georgics 4.345
  31. ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.59
  32. ↑ Pausanias, 1.38.7; cf. Pherecydes, fr. 45 Fowler, where she is called a sister of Styx, so presumably an Oceanid, see Fowler 2013, p. 16.
  33. ↑ Epaphroditus, fr. 57 Braswell–Billerbeck, see Braswell, pp. 240, 242; Harder, vol. 1 p. 196, vol. 2 p. 383.
  34. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 275.6
  35. ↑ Eumelus fr. 1 Fowler (apud Pausanias, 2.1.1)
  36. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 244; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  37. ↑ Hyginus, Astronomica 2.21.1, Fabulae 192
  38. ↑ According to Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7, Europa was the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope, see Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls the name Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.
  39. ↑ Also Apollodorus, 1.3.1
  40. ↑ Homer, Iliad 18.399, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.503–504
  41. ↑ Acusilaus, fr. 34 Fowler; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 560.
  42. ↑ Homer, Iliad 18.47; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
  43. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 182; an outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Idothea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
  44. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.9.23
  45. ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.243–244
  46. ↑ According to Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7, Libye was the daughter of Oceanus and Pompholyge, see Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls the name Pompholyge, an ad hoc invention.
  47. ↑ Ioannes Lydus, De Mensibus 4.67
  48. ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.42
  49. ↑ Pindar, fr. 52k 43; Pausanias, 9.10.5
  50. ↑ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
  51. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 247; Homer, Iliad 18.42; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  52. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 154
  53. ↑ Also Apollodorus, 1.2.1
  54. ↑ According to Suda, s.v. Εὐφορίων, Attica was previously called "Mopsopia"after a daughter of Oceanus.
  55. ↑ Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Νέαιρα
  56. ↑ Pausanias, 1.33.3
  57. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 223; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 1
  58. ↑ Pherecydes, fr. 66 Fowler
  59. ↑ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.248
  60. ↑ Also Hesiod, Theogony 956
  61. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 156; here, spelled "Persis", spelled "Perse" at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 36.
  62. ↑ Homer, Odyssey 10.139; Hecataeus of Miletus, fr. 35A Fowler; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.48; Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.358
  63. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 138
  64. ↑ Eumelus fr. 12 West = Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.554 (see also Evelyn-White, pp. 482, 483); Pherecydes, fr. 50 Fowler = Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1231–41a; cf. Callimachus, Hymn 1—To Zeus 33–36
  65. ↑ Apollodorus, 3.10.1
  66. ↑ cf. Hyginus, Fabulae 192
  67. ↑ Ovid, Fasti 5.81–84
  68. ↑ Suda, s.v. Ἱππεία Ἀθηνᾶ
  69. ↑ Epimenides, fr. 11 Fowler
  70. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.4.5; Herodorus, fr. 62 Fowler; Diodorus Siculus, 5.55
  71. ↑ Epimenides, fr. 8 Fowler
  72. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.3.4, 1.7.10, E.7.18; Hyginus, Fabulae 125.13, 141.1; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.896
  73. ↑ Fowler 2013, pp. 30–31
  74. ↑ Epimenides, fr. 7 Fowler
  75. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 1.
  76. ↑ Fowler, p. 323
  77. ↑ According to Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7, Thraike was the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope, see Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls the name Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.
  78. ↑ Possibly the same as the Xantho, at Virgil, Georgics 4.336.
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