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Okeanos
Ocean
Okeanos, the circle of sea (or river) supposed to surround the whole world
- this theory questioned by Herodotus: Hdt. 2.21, Hdt. 2.23, Hdt. 4.8, Hdt. 4.36
- not a river but a sea: Paus. 1.33.3-5
- a Titan, son of Sky and Earth: Apollod. 1.1.3
- islands of: Paus. 1.23.5
- Iberians and Celts dwell beside: Paus. 1.33.4
- father of Caanthus and Melia: Paus. 9.10.5, of Ephyra: Paus. 2.1.1, of Eurynome: Paus. 8.41.5, of Nemesis: Paus. 1.33.3, Paus. 7.5.3, of Ocyroe: Paus. 4.30.4, of Styx: Paus. 8.18.1 ff., of Triptolemus: Paus. 1.14.3
- father of Metis: Apollod. 1.2.1
- offspring of: Apollod. 1.2.2
- father of Eurynome: Apollod. 1.3.1
- father of Triptolemus, according to Pherecydes: Apollod. 1.5.2
- father of Idyia: Apollod. 1.9.23
- father of Inachus and of Melia: Apollod. 1.9.28
- father of Callirrhoe: Apollod. 2.5.9
- father of Meliboea: Apollod. 3.7.7
- father of Pleione: Apollod. 3.10.1
- father of Asopus: Apollod. 3.12.5
- daughters of Ocean sport with the Maid: Paus. 4.30.4
- Pelops goes to the: Apollod. E.2.7
- Odysseus wanders about the: Apollod. E.6.28, Apollod. E.7.1, Apollod. E.7.16
- name applied to torrent in Lydia: Paus. 1.35.7
