In Greek mythology, Oceanus was a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaia, husband of his sister Titan Tethys, and father of the river gods and Oceanids, as well as being the great river that surrounded the entire world. Oceanus married his sister Tethys and fathered her many sons, the river gods and many daughters, the Oceanids. According to Hesiod, there were three thousand river gods as well as three thousand Oceanids. According to Hesiod when Cronus, the youngest of the Titans overthrew his father Uranus as ruler of the universe, no other Titan participated in the attack on Uranus. However according to mythologist Apollodorus, all Titans - except Oceanus - attacked Uranus. Nor does Oceanus seem to join the Titans in Titanomachy, the great war between Cronus and his other Titans, and Zeus and his Olympus comrades, for control of the universe; and after the war, although Cronus and the other Titans were imprisoned, Oceanus was certainly free. Although sometimes referred to as a human being, Oceanus is more commonly thought of as a place, i.e. the great river that surrounds the world. In Homer, Helios the Sun, rises from Oceanus in the east, and at the end of the day falls back to Oceanus in the west, and the stars bathe in "stream of Ocean". [Image 1: Modern Representative Image of Oceanus. 2.
Greek Goddess Oceanus Surrounded By Tritons And Nereids ]
Greek Mythology
