Oceanid
The Oceanids ( ancient Greek Ὠκεανίδες , plural of Ὠκεανίς ) are the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology , only Hyginus gives Pontos and Mare as their parents .
Their areas of activity are the sea and the fresh waters, which they share with the Nereids (the daughters of the Oceanid Doris ) and the nymphs and from which they are not always distinguished.
Most of them are just poetic names that have not been further differentiated mythologically, in mythology and in cult they only play a subordinate role.
In ancient representations they appear in the form of a woman, only Eurynomials are depicted with fish tails, which differ from this.
Names of the Oceanids
In the Theogony, Hesiod gives their number and that of their brothers, the Potamoi ( ancient Greek Ποταμοί , rivers ) as 3000 each, but only lists the 41 oldest Oceanids by name. Further Oceanid catalogs can be found
- in the Homeric hymn to Demeter ,
- the fragments of the Orphics ,
- in the library of Apollodorus ,
- at Hyginus and
- in Virgil's Georgica .
Other authors only mention individual Oceanids in certain contexts. For example, in Homer's Iliad only Eurynomials and in the Odyssey only Perse are listed by name.
Virgil's list of the Oceanids is very similar to a Nereid catalog , but two of the names listed are expressly referred to as Oceanids. Other authors refer to goddesses like Nemesis or Tyche as Oceanids, with others they are only eponymous namesake for places, such as Dodona for the oracle site Dodona or Ephyra for Corinth .
| Surname | Greek | Hesiod | Homeric hymn | Orphics | Pseudo-Apollodor | Hyginus | Virgil | other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admete | Ἀδμήτη | x | x | x | Admeto | |||
| Adrasteia | Ἀδράστεια | x | ||||||
| Aithra | Αἴθρα | x | x | |||||
| Aitna | Αἴτνα | x | ||||||
| Akaste | Ἀκάστη | x | x | x | ||||
| Althaea | - | x | ||||||
| Amphiro | Ἀμφιρὼ | x | ||||||
| Amaltheia | Ἀμάλθεια | x | ||||||
| Amphitrite | Ἀμφιτρίτη | x | ||||||
| Arethusa | Ἀρέθουσα | x | x | |||||
| Argeia | Ἀργεία | x | ||||||
| Asia | Ἀσία | x | x | x | ||||
| Beroe | Βερόη | x | ||||||
| Chryseis | Χρυσηΐς | x | x | x | ||||
| Clio | - | x | ||||||
| Coria | - | x | ||||||
| Cydippe | - | x | ||||||
| Cymodoce | - | x | ||||||
| Daeira | Δαείρα | x | ||||||
| Deiopea | Δηιόπεια | x | ||||||
| Dione | Διώνη | x | ||||||
| Dodona | Δωδώνα | x | ||||||
| Doris | Δωρίς | x | x | |||||
| Drymo | - | x | ||||||
| Elektra | Ἠλέκτρα | x | x | x | x | |||
| Eidyia | Εἰδυῖα | x | ||||||
| Ephyra | Ἔφυρα | x | Ephyre | x | ||||
| Euagorice | - | x | ||||||
| Eudore | Εὐδώρη | x | ||||||
| Europe | Εὐρώπη | x | ||||||
| Eurynomials | Εὐρυνόμη | x | x | x | x | |||
| Galaxaure | Γαλαξαύρη | x | x | x | ||||
| Hesione | ᾙσιόνη | x | ||||||
| Hestyaea | - | x | ||||||
| Hippo | Ἱππώ | x | ||||||
| I laugh | Ἰάχη | x | ||||||
| Janeira | Ἰάνειρα | x | x | x | ||||
| Ianthe | Ἰάνθη | x | x | x | x | |||
| Idothea | - | x | ||||||
| Idyia | Ἰδυῖα | x | ||||||
| Kallirrhoë | Καλλιρόη | x | x | |||||
| Calypso | Καλυψώ | x | x | x | ||||
| Kamarina | Καμάρινα | x | ||||||
| Kapheira | Κάφείρα | x | ||||||
| Kerkeis | Κερκηίς | x | ||||||
| Clymene | Κλυμένη | x | ||||||
| Klytia | Κλυτία | x | ||||||
| Luminary | Κορυφή | x | ||||||
| Leukippe | Λευκίππη | x | x | |||||
| Libye | Λιβύη | x | ||||||
| Ligea | - | x | ||||||
| Lycorias | - | x | ||||||
| Lyriseitia | - | x | ||||||
| Melia | Μελία | x | Melie | |||||
| Meliboia | Μελίβοια | x | ||||||
| Melite | Μελίτη | x | x | |||||
| Melobosis | Μηλόβοσις | x | x | x | ||||
| Menestho | Μενεσθώ | x | ||||||
| Menu | - | x | ||||||
| Merope | Μερόπη | x | ||||||
| Metis | Μῆτις | x | x | |||||
| Nemesis | Νέμεσις | x | ||||||
| Nesaee | - | x | ||||||
| Okyroë | Ὠκυρόη | x | x | x | ||||
| Grandpa | Ὦπις | x | ||||||
| Ozone | Ὀζομένη | x | ||||||
| Pasiphe | - | x | ||||||
| Pasithoe | Πασιθόη | x | ||||||
| Peitho | Πειθώ | x | ||||||
| Perse | Πέρση | x | ||||||
| Perseis | Περσηίς | x | ||||||
| Petraie | Πετραίη | x | ||||||
| Piecus | - | x | ||||||
| Phaino | Φαινώ | x | ||||||
| Phanere | Φανερή | x | ||||||
| Philyra | Φιλύρα | x | ||||||
| Phyllodoce | - | x | ||||||
| Pleione | Πληιόνη | x | x | |||||
| Plexaure | Πληξαύρη | x | ||||||
| Pluto | Πλουτώ | x | x | x | ||||
| Polydore | Πολυδώρη | x | ||||||
| Polyxo | Πολυξώ | x | ||||||
| Prymno | Πρυμνώ | x | ||||||
| Rhodeia | Ῥόδεια | x | x | |||||
| Rhodope | Ῥοδόπη | x | x | x | ||||
| Rhodes | Ῥόδος | x | ||||||
| Silvo | - | x | ||||||
| Spy | - | x | ||||||
| Styx | Στύξ | x | x | x | x | |||
| Telesto | Τελεστώ | x | ||||||
| Teschinoeno | - | x | ||||||
| Thalia | - | x | ||||||
| Thoe | Θόη | x | ||||||
| Titanis | - | x | ||||||
| Thrace | Θράκη | x | ||||||
| Tyche | Τύχη | x | x | x | ||||
| Urany | Οὐρανίη | x | x | x | ||||
| Xanth | Ξάνθη | x | Xantho | |||||
| Zeuxo | Ζευξώ | x |
literature
- Fritz Fischer: Nereids and Oceanids in Hesiod's Theogony . O. Jung 1934.
- Hans Herter : Oceanids. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVII, 2, Stuttgart 1937, Sp. 2303-2308.
- Lilly Kahil , Noëlle Icard-Gianolio: Oceanids . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VII, Zurich / Munich 1994, pp. 29-31.
- Paul Weizsäcker : Oceanids . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 805-809 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Oceanids in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hyginus : Fabulae Praefatio.
- ↑ Hesiod : Theogony 346-370. ( ancient Greek and German )
- ↑ Homeric Hymnos 2, 418 ff. ( Ancient Greek and English )
- ↑ Orphic Fragments 49, 21 ff. In: Otto Kern (editor): Orphicorum Fragmenta . Weidmann , Berlin 1922. (digitized version)
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 2, 2 (Eidyia 1, 9, 23; Melia 2, 1, 2; Meliboia 3, 8, 1; Pleione 3, 10, 1.) ( ancient Greek and German )
- ↑ Hyginus : Fabulae, Prefatio 6. ( Latin and English )
- ↑ Hyginus: Fabulae 182. ( Latin )
- ^ Virgil : Georgica 4, 334. ( Latin and English )
- ↑ a b Homer : Iliad 18, 398.
- ↑ a b Homer: Odyssey 10, 139.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus: Fabulae 192.
- ↑ Timaeus in the Scholion for Homer's Iliad 18:486; Ovid Fasti 5, 171.
- ↑ Cf. Georg Friedrich Schömann : Opuscula academica , Volume 2. Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main 1857. p. 163. (digitized version)
- ↑ Scholion on Homer's Iliad 21:194.
- ^ Artemidorus : Scholion at Pindars Olympia .
- ↑ Cicero : De natura deorum 3.59.
- ↑ Pausanias 1, 38, 7.
- ↑ Scholion on Homer's Iliad 16:23.
- ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium : Δωδωναῖος
- ↑ Pausanias 2.1.
- ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 504.
- ↑ Aeschylus : Prometheus Bound 559.
- ^ Pindar : Olympia 5, 2.
- ^ Diodorus 5:55.
- ^ Mnaseas after Valerius Harpokration : Ἱππία
- ↑ Cf. Georg Friedrich Schömann: Opuscula academica , Volume 2. Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main 1857. P. 151. (digitized version)
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus: Fabulae 154.
- ^ Pausanias 1, 33, 3.
- ↑ Pindar Pythien 3, 1 ff.
- ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 2, 1235.
- ↑ Pindar: Fragment 74 .
- ↑ Etymologicum magnum : Πλειάδες
- ↑ Cf. Georg Friedrich Schömann: Opuscula academica , Volume 2. Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main 1857. p. 163.
- ^ Clement of Alexandria : Protreptikos 2, 28.
- ↑ Cf. Georg Friedrich Schömann: Opuscula academica , Volume 2. Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main 1857. P. 151.