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[201] Tethys appears only here in H., nor do we find any mention elsewhere of Okeanos as the progemtor of the gods; he is only personified as a deity, outside this book, in 20.7. Hesiod (Hesiod Theog. 13336) names Okeanos and Tethys among the other children of Gaia and Uranos, including Kronos. Virgil goes a step farther with his “Oceanumque patrem rerum,” G. iv. 382 . Brandreth conj. “ῥοῶν” (“ϝροων” as he writes it) for θεῶν, father of rivers, cf. 245, 21.196. See also Plato's comments, Theaet. 152

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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