nymphs
Oceanus
['Randolph Churchill', 'Adrastus', 'Henry VIII', 'Hamad bin Khalifa', 'Chakrabongse', 'Ragnar Lothbrok', 'Asinius Pollio', 'Artaxias I', 'Koxinga', 'Typhon', 'Joachim Ernest', 'Jerry Stiller', 'Ivan Shishman', 'Fusu', 'John Cromwell', 'Uday Shankar', 'Montjeu', 'Cheney', 'Henry Paget', 'Samuel Lines', 'Dhritrashtra', 'King Henry II', 'Vasili III', 'Brian', 'Klaus Kinski', 'Vladislas II', 'Mieszko', 'Gruffydd ap Rhys', 'Vittorio De Sica', 'Bohr', 'Henry Fonda', 'Aristippus', 'Amenhotep III', 'Tony Curtis', 'Ernst August', 'moon god', 'Dion Boucicault', 'James Peale', 'Henry Clay Frick', 'Brando', 'Emperor Frederick II', 'Fath Ali Shah', 'Offa', 'Idris Barzani', 'Shah Alam II', 'Thomas Hoby', 'Carolus Linnaeus', 'John de Mol', 'Ernst Johann von Biron', 'Blake Edwards', 'King Caspian X', 'Homer', 'Roger Donaldson', 'Mehboob Khan', 'Heraclius II', 'Guy III', 'Shahrukh Mirza', 'George Boole', 'Muhammad Sharif', 'Macrinus', 'Rob Schneider', 'Frank Sinatra', 'Ali Hatami', 'Vespasian', 'Pandion I', 'King Lot', 'Wehha', 'Alexander', 'Nero', 'Peter II', 'Roosevelt', 'Jungjong', 'Athamas', 'Shahjahan', '2nd Earl Spencer', 'Polemon Pythodoros', 'James Brolin', 'Sher Shah Suri', 'Irving Wallace', 'James Dwight Dana', 'Presley', 'Afonso IV', 'King Alfonso XIII', 'Benito Mussolini', 'Timur', 'Adolf Frederick', 'Clothar', 'Pepin II', 'Pausanias', 'Marcello Mastroianni', 'Theodoric', 'Ali bin Abu Talib', 'Manuel II', 'Yohannes IV', 'Roscoe Karns', 'Agesilaus II', 'Rajinikanth', 'Gobryas', 'Manuel I']
Oceanus
Oceanus (/oʊˈsiːənəs/; Greek: Ὠκεανός Ōkeanós, [ɔːkeanós]) was a divine figure in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the sea, an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Oceanus was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (οἰκουμένη, oikoumene). Thus, the sun rises from the deep-flowing Oceanus in the east and at the end of the day sinks back into the Oceanus in the west. In Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaea. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab) and the lower body of a serpent (cf. Typhon). On a fragmentary archaic vessel of circa 580 BC (British Museum 1971.11-1.1), among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics, such as that from Bardo he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship. Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean (also called the "Ocean Sea"), while the newcomer of a later generation, Poseidon, ruled over the Mediterranean. Oceanus' consort is his sister Tethys, and from their union came the ocean nymphs, also referred to as the three-thousand Oceanids, and all the rivers of the world, fountains, and lakes. From Cronus, of the race of Titans, the Olympian gods have their birth, and Hera mentions twice in Iliad book XIV her intended journey "to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Oceanus, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house." In most variations of the war between the Titans and the Olympians, or Titanomachy, Oceanus, along with Prometheus and Themis, did not take the side of his fellow Titans against the Olympians, but instead withdrew from the conflict. In most variations of this myth, Oceanus also refused to side with Cronus in the latter's revolt against their father, Uranus.