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In Greek and Roman mythology, the 'Oceanids' were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. One of these many daughters was also said to have been the wife of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite. Each of these nymphs was the patroness of a particular spring, river, ocean, lake, pond, pasture, flower or cloud. Oceanus and Tethys also had 3000 sons, the river-gods (''Potamoi''). Whereas most sources limit the term Oceanids or Oceaniades to the daughters, others include both the sons and daughters under this term.^[1]
==List of Oceanids^[2][3][4] ==
# Acaste
# Admete
# Aethra
# Amaltheia
# Amphiro
# Amphitrite - Usually counted as a goddess of the sea
# Argia
# Asia or Clymene - Nymph of the Asian region, sister to Europe
# Beroe
# Kleodora
# Bolbe
# Callirrhoe
# Calypso
# Caphira
# Cerceis
# Ceto
# Chryseis
# Clio
# Clymene
# Clytie or Clytia
# Daira
# Dione
# Doris - Oceanid of "pure water", wife of the sea god Nereus.
# Eidyia or Idyia
# Electra
# Ephyra
# Eudore
# Europa
# Eurynome
# Galaxaure
# Hippo
# Ianira
# Ianthe - Nymph of violet rain clouds or violet flowers
# Leucippe
# Lysithea
# Melia
# Meliboea
# Menestho
# Merope
# Metis - Goddess of wisdom, first spouse of Zeus
# Nemesis
# Ocyrrhoe
# Pasithoe
# Peitho
# Periboea
# Perse or Perseis
# Petraea
# Philyra
# Pleione - Mother of the Pleiades by Atlas
# Plouto or Pluto - Mother of Tantalus
# Polydora
# Prymno
# Rhode or Rhodia
# Styx - Oceanid of the river Styx that flowed nine times around Hades the only female river spirit
# Telesto
# Thoe
# Tyche
# Urania
# Zeuxo
Others: the text by Hyginus (Fabulae) is corrupted in places, making the names of a few of the Oceanids uncertain:
★ yaea;
★ lyris,
★ clintenneste.^[5]
==List of River-gods^[6][7]==
# Achelous
# Acheron
# Aeas
# Aegaeus
# Aesepus
# Almo
# Alpheus
# Amphrysos
# Apidanus
# Ardescus
# Asopus
# Asterion
# Axius
# Caicus
# Cayster
# Cebren
# Cephissus
# Chremetes
# Cladeus or Kladeos
# Clitunno (Roman mythology)
# Cocytus
# Cratais
# Crinisus
# Cydnos
# Enipeus
# Erasinus
# Eridanus
# Euphrates
# Evenus
# Granicus
# Haliacmon
# Heptaporus
# Hermus
# Inachus
# Istrus or Ister
# Ladon
# Meander
# Mincius
# Nessus
# Nilus
# Numicius
# Nymphaeus
# Pactolus
# Parthenius
# Phasis
# Peneus
# Rhesus
# Rhine
# Rhodius
# Sangarius
# Scamander
# Simoeis
# Sperchius
# Strymon
# Termessus
# Tiberinus (Roman mythology)

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References

1. Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface [1]
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 346; http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html
3. Apollodorus, Library 1.2.2; [2]
4. Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface [3]: Note that the text is corrupted in places, making the names of some of the daughters illegible.
5. Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface [4]
6. Hesiod, Theogony, 334; [5]
7. Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface [6]

See also

★ Mermaid

★ Siren

★ Nereid