. . Well, don't you think he who gave to the ancestors of the other gods the names ‘Rhea’ and ‘Kronos’ (Cronus) [derived by Plato from the Greek words ‘flow’ and ‘time’] had the same thought as Herakleitos? Do you think he gave both of them the names of streams merely...
Parents Cronus and Rhea Wife Amphitrite God of King of the Sea, earthquakes, floods, horses Home The Aegean Sea Symbol Trident Sacred Animals Bull, horse, dolphin Sacred Plants Pine tree, wild celery Retinue Triton, Nereids, Sea-Gods Other Names Cronides Roman Name NeptunePOSEIDON PAGES INDEXPar...
Graces, Muses, Nereids, Oceanids are girls’ dances. Panas and Eileithyia are also given in the plural (apparently the women of the neighborhood who help a woman to give birth). Poetry describes these groups as members of the world of the gods: Satyrs and Maenads dance around Dionysus, ...
Oceanids are those female water deities who were born to Oceanus and Tethys. While most of the Oceanids led a normal life, some of the Oceanids were quite famous. Among them were the Greek gods: Metis, Doris, Styx, and Perse who played a very important role in mythology. ...
She was a Goddess of the Ocean, but eventually ceded to Doris, who ceded to Amphitrite. Tethys was the Godmother of Rhea (see above), and raised her during the civil war between the Gods and the Titans. Her name means Disposer and is very similar, in root, to Thetis.n Thalassa She ...
Neda Greek One of the oldest of the Oceanids, sea Nymph daughters of the Titan gods, Oceanus and Tethys; considered by many Greek writers to be a second-generation Titan.oceanus and
Oceanus - Titan god of the ocean. Pallas - A giant who was one of the ancient Titan gods of war. Pan - (a.k.a. Faunus, Inuus) God of woods, fields, and flocks. Also a Satyr. Phosphorus - (a.k.a. Phosphor, Lucifer) The Morning Star. Plutus - God of wealth. Pollux - (a...
He is said to have had a terrific voice (Val. Flacc. iii. 31), and by it to have frightened the Titans in their fight with the gods. (Eratosth. Catast. 27.) It seems that this feature, namely, his fondness of noise and riot, was the cause of his being considered as the minist...
For this was the will of Styx, the Okeanis (Oceanid), never-perishing, on the day when Olympios [Zeus] . . . summoned all the immortal gods to tall Olympos and said that any god who fought on his side with the Titanes should never be beated out of his privilege, but each should...
: "The Titanes (Titans) had children. Those of Okeanos (Oceanus) and Tethys were called Okeanides (Oceanids): Asia, Styx, Elektra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis."Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 11 - 12 : "Nereus and Doris were parents of the Nereides, whose names were were...