Oceanids

The Oceanids, (Ὠκεανίδες) are the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Each was the patroness of a particular spring, lake, river, sea, pond, pasture, flower or cloud. Some of them were closely associated with the Titan gods (such as Calypso, Clymene, Asia, Electra) or personified abstract concepts (Tyche, Peitho).

One of these many daughters was also said to have been the consort of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite. More often, however, she is called a Nereid

Oceanus and Tethys also had 3,000 sons, the river-gods Potamoi (Ποταμοί). Whereas most sources limit the term Oceanids or Oceanides to the daughters, others include both the sons and daughters under this term.

Notable Oceanids include Asia and Philyra.

The following are a few of the 3,000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.
 * 1) Acaste
 * 2) Admete
 * 3) Aethra
 * 4) Amaltheia
 * 5) Amphiro
 * 6) Amphitrite – usually counted as a Nereid rather than an Oceanid
 * 7) Anchiroe
 * 8) Anthracia - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 9) Argia
 * 10) Asia – nymph of the Asian region, sister to Europe
 * 11) Asterodia
 * 12) Beroe
 * 13) Bolbe
 * 14) Cleodora
 * 15) Callirrhoe
 * 16) Calypso
 * 17) Camarina
 * 18) Capheira
 * 19) Cerceis
 * 20) Ceto
 * 21) Chryseis
 * 22) Clio - not to be confused with the Muse Clio
 * 23) Clymene - wife of Iapetus
 * 24) Clytie or Clytia
 * 25) Crocale - one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
 * 26) Daira
 * 27) Dione
 * 28) Dodone
 * 29) Doris – wife of the sea god Nereus, mother of the fifty Nereides.
 * 30) Eidyia or Idyia - wife of Aeetes, mother of Medea
 * 31) Electra - wife of Thaumas, mother of Iris, Arke and the Harpies
 * 32) Ephyra
 * 33) Euagoreis
 * 34) Eudore
 * 35) Europa
 * 36) Eurynome
 * 37) Galaxaure
 * 38) Glauke - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 39) Hagno - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 40) Hesione - wife of Prometheus
 * 41) Hippo
 * 42) Hyale - one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
 * 43) Iakhe
 * 44) Ianira
 * 45) Ianthe – nymph of violet rain clouds or violet flowers
 * 46) Ithome - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 47) Leucippe
 * 48) Lysithea
 * 49) Melia
 * 50) Meliboea
 * 51) Melite
 * 52) Melobosis
 * 53) Menestho
 * 54) Merope
 * 55) Metis – goddess of wisdom, first spouse of Zeus
 * 56) Myrtoessa - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 57) Nede - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 58) Nemesis
 * 59) Nephele - one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
 * 60) Ocyrrhoe
 * 61) Oinoe - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 62) Ozomene - in one source, this name substitutes for Electra
 * 63) Pasithoe
 * 64) Peitho
 * 65) Periboea
 * 66) Perse or Perseis
 * 67) Petraea
 * 68) Phaino
 * 69) Phiale - one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
 * 70) Philyra - mother of Chiron by Cronus
 * 71) Phrixa - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 72) Pleione – mother of the Pleiades by Atlas
 * 73) Plexaure
 * 74) Plouto or Pluto – mother of Tantalus by Zeus
 * 75) Polydora
 * 76) Polyphe - in a rare version, mother of Athena by Poseidon
 * 77) Pronoia
 * 78) Prymno
 * 79) Psekas - one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
 * 80) Rhanis - one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
 * 81) Rhode or Rhodia
 * 82) Rhodope
 * 83) Stilbo
 * 84) Styx – Oceanid of the river Styx that flowed nine times around Hades; an exceptionally female river goddess
 * 85) Telesto
 * 86) Theisoa - one of the nymphs that nursed infant Zeus
 * 87) Thoe
 * 88) Tyche
 * 89) Urania - not to be confused with the Muse Urania
 * 90) Xanthe
 * 91) Zeuxo

Trivia

 * They are called Oceanids, a word derived from the name of their father, Oceanus.
 * They are the 3000 nymphs presiding over sources of fresh water, both heavenly (rain, moist breezes,...) and earthly (rivers, seas, springs,...).
 * Some of them were also Aurae, Nephelae, and Elder Naiads.
 * Their brothers, the 3000 Potamoi were like their sisters also known as Oceanids, raising their number to 6000. The Potamoi spawned a host of younger Naiads, the mothers of these young water spirits was sometimes said to be the Elder Naiads and thus the sisters of the Potamoi.
 * The eldest among them were numbered among the Titans: Styx, Dione, Neda, Metis, Klymene, Eurynome, Doris, Elektra, and Pleione.
 * Some of the Okeanides personified divine blessings, such as Metis (Wisdom), Klymene (Fame), Plouto (Wealth), Tykhe (Good Fortune), Telesto (Success) and Peitho (Persuasion). The goddess Nemesis (Distributor) was also sometimes included, as one who provided balance to her sister's gifts by punishing undeserved good fortune. These Good Spirits (daimones agathoi) were ephemeral in nature much like the dark children of Nyx, the Spirits of Harm (daimones kakoi).