List of Oceanids

Oceanus is a god in ancient Greek mythology. This is a list of his daughters, who are known collectively as the Oceanids.

According to Hesiod,^[1] the total number of Oceanus' children was 6000, composed of 3000 daughters and 3000 sons (these are called Potamoi), but only a relatively small number of their names is actually attested throughout accounts of Greek mythology.

List

Named Oceanids

Name	Hes. [2]	Hom. H. [3]	Apoll. [4]	Hyg. [5]	Other sources / Comments
Acaste	✓	✓
Admete	✓	✓		✓
Adrasteia				✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 182
Aethra				✓	Hyginus, Astronomica 2.21; Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 90c Fowler; Ovid, Fasti 5.171
Aetna					Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Παλιχη
Amalthea				✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 182;[6] Schol. ad Hom. II. 21.194; usually not an Oceanid, e.g. Apollodorus, 2.7.5
Amphirho	✓
Amphitrite			✓		Also Apollodorus, 1.4.5; the name of a Nereid at Hesiod, Theogony, 243, 254, and Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Argia or Argea				✓	Also Hyginus, Fabulae 143
Asia	✓		✓		Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Pompholyge);[7] the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Asterodia					Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.242 (Parisian, Florentine).
Asterope					Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Akragantes
Beroe					Virgil, Georgics 4.341; cf. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Callirhoe	✓	✓	✓		Apollodorus, 2.5.10
Calypso	✓	✓			The name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7; "probably not" the same as the Calypso who was the lover of Odysseus[8]
Camarina					Pindar, Olympian 5.1–4
Capheira					Diodorus Siculus, 5.55
Cerceis	✓
Ceto					Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355; the name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Chryseis	✓	✓
Clio or Cleio					Virgil, Georgics 4.341; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Clitemneste				✓
Clymene	✓			✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 156; Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.359; possibly the same as at Virgil, Georgics 4.345; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Clytie or Clytia	✓			✓
Coryphe					Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.59
Daeira					Pausanias, 1.38.7; cf. Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 45 Fowler (called a sister of Styx)
Dione	✓				The name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Dodone					Epaphroditus, fr. 57 Braswell–Billerbeck[9]
Doris	✓		✓		The name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Electra	✓	✓	✓
Ephyra				✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 275.6; Eumelus fr. 1 Fowler (apud Pausanias, 2.1.1); possibly the same as at Virgil, Georgics 4.343; the name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Euagoreis				✓
Eudora	✓				The name of a Nereid at Apollodorus, 1.2.7
Europa	✓				Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Parthenope);[10] not the Europa who was abducted by Zeus, became the mother of Minos, and for whom the continent of Europe was named
Eurynome	✓		✓	✓	Also Apollodorus, 1.3.1
Galaxaura	✓	✓
Hesione					Acusilaus, fr. 34 Fowler; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 560.
Hestyaea				✓
Hippo	✓
Iache		✓
Ianeira or Ianira	✓	✓			The name of a Nereid at Homer, Iliad 18.47; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Ianthe	✓	✓		✓
Ida				✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 182[11]
Idyia or Eidyia	✓		✓		Apollodorus, 1.9.23; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.243–244
Leucippe		✓
Libye					Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Pompholyge)[12]
Lyris				✓
Melia			✓		Apollodorus, 2.1.1; Pindar, fr. 52k 43; Pausanias, 9.10.5[13]
Meliboea			✓		Apollodorus, 3.8.1
Melite		✓		✓	The name of a Nereid at Hesiod, Theogony 247; Homer, Iliad 18.42; Apollodorus, 1.2.7; Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Melobosis	✓	✓
Menestho	✓
Menippe				✓
Mentis				✓
Merope				✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 154
Metis	✓		✓		Also Apollodorus, 1.2.1
Mopsopia					Suda, s.v. Εὐφορίων, according to which, Mopsopia, an old name for Attica, was supposed to have come from her
Nemesis					Pausanias, 1.33.3; a daughter of Nyx at Hesiod, Theogony 223; and Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 1
Ocyrhoe	✓	✓
Pasiphae				✓
Pasithoe	✓
Peitho	✓				Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 66 Fowler.
Periboea					Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.248
Perse or Perseis	✓			✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 156;[14] Homer, Odyssey 10.139; Hecataeus of Miletus, fr. 35A Fowler; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.48; Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.19.358; also Hesiod, Theogony 956
Petraea	✓
Phaeno		✓
Philyra				✓	Hyginus, Fabulae 138; Pherecydes of Leros, fr. 50 Fowler; cf. Callimachus, Hymn 1—To Zeus 33–36
Pleione			✓	?	Apollodorus, 3.10.1; Ovid, Fasti 5.81–84; cf. Hyginus, Fabulae 192
Plexaura	✓
Plouto or Pluto	✓	✓
Polydora	✓
Polyphe					Suda, s.v. Ἱππεία Ἀθηνᾶ
Polyxo				✓
Prymno	✓
Rhodea, Rhodeia, or Rhodia	✓	✓			Greek: Ῥόδειά
Rhodope		✓		✓
Rhodos or Rhode					Epimenides, fr. 11 Fowler; the daughter of Poseidon at Apollodorus, 1.4.5; Herodorus, fr. 62 Fowler; and Diodorus Siculus, 5.55
The Sirens					Epimenides, fr. 8 Fowler; usually the daughters of Achelous, e.g. Apollodorus, 1.3.4, 1.7.10, E.7.18; Hyginus, Fabulae 125.13, 141.1; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.896.[15]
Stilbo				✓
Styx	✓	✓	✓		Epimenides, fr. 7 Fowler; a daughter of Nyx at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 1
Telesto	✓
Thoe	✓				The name of a Nereid at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 8
Thraike					Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7] (mother is Parthenope)[16]
Tyche	✓	✓
Urania	✓	✓			Not the Muse Urania
Xanthe	✓
Zeuxo	✓

Notes

1. Hesiod; Theogony, 364-370
2. Hesiod, Theogony 349–361.
3. Homeric Hymn, 2.418–423.
4. Apollodorus, 1.2.2, except where otherwise indicated.
5. Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95), except where otherwise indicated.
6. An outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Althaea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
7. Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ad hoc invention.
8. Caldwell, p. 49 n. 359, see also West 1966, p. 267 359. καὶ ἱμερόεσσα Καλυψώ; Hard, p. 41. Odysseus' Calypso is usually the daughter of the Titan Atlas, e.g. Homer, Odyssey 1.51–54.
9. Braswell, pp. 240, 242; Harder, vol. 1 p. 196, vol. 2 p. 383.
10. Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.
11. An outdated Latin text of Hyginus' Fabulae has Idothea, see Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 191 endnote to 182; West 1983, p. 133.
12. Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Pompholyge, a name found nowhere else, an ad hoc invention.
13. The Theban Oceanid Melia of Pindar and Pausanias may be different from the Archive Oceanid Melia mentioned by Apollodorus.
14. Here, spelled "Persis", spelled "Perses" at Hyginus, Fabulae Th. 36.
15. Fowler 2013, pp. 30–31.
16. Fowler 2001, p. 42; Fowler 2013, pp. 13, 15; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler calls Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.

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