This article is about Greek mythological sea nymphs. For the tone poem by Sibelius, see The Oceanides.
Les Océanides, Gustave Doré (c. 1860)
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In Greek mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (/oʊˈsiːənɪdz,ˈoʊʃənɪdz/oh-SEE-ə-nidz, OH-shə-nidz; Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανίδες, romanized: Ōkeanídes, pl. of Ὠκεανίς, Ōkeanís) are the nymphs who were the three thousand (a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable") daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.[1]
^Hard, pp. 40–41; Tripp, s.v. Oceanids, p. 401; Grimal, s.v. Oceanus, p. 315.
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