·Reported
Oceanus continually breathes a soft-singing west wind from the sea that refreshes all people in Elysium.
See evidence text
“Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men”
Character · Individual
Oceanus
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Oceanus
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Character
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- The source personifies Oceanus but does not explicitly classify him as a deity.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
0
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
No presence observations in the processed scope.
Claims
8
·Remembered
Oceanus is the father of Perse, who bears Circe and Aeetes to the sun.
See evidence text
“Perse, who is daughter to Oceanus. We brought our ship”
·Remembered
The ship enters the deep waters of Oceanus, and the party follows its waters to Circe’s appointed place.
See evidence text
“the deep waters of the river Oceanus, where lie the land and city of the Cimmerians who live enshrouded in mist and darkness which the rays of the sun never pierce neither at his rising nor as he goes down again out of the heavens, but the poor wretches live in one long melancholy night. When we got there we beached the ship, took the sheep out of her, and went along by the waters of Oceanus till we came to the place of which Circe had told us.”
·Reported
Oceanus is a great and terrible barrier that no man can cross on foot; a good ship is required.
See evidence text
“there are great and terrible waters, and there is Oceanus, which no man can cross on foot, but he must have a good ship to take him”
·Remembered
The ship escapes down Oceanus, rowing at first before a fair wind rises.
See evidence text
“the ship went down the stream of the river Oceanus. We had to row at first, but presently a fair wind sprang up”
·Hypothetical
Penelope wishes a whirlwind might drop her into the mouths of overflowing Oceanus.
See evidence text
“some whirlwind snatch me up and bear me through paths of darkness till it drop me into the mouths of over-flowing Oceanus”
·Reported
Eumaeus describes morning as coming from the streams of Oceanus.
See evidence text
“morning comes from the streams of Oceanus”
·Direct
Dawn ordinarily leaves Oceanus to yoke her steeds and break the day, but Minerva holds her back.
See evidence text
“Dawn to leave Oceanus, nor to yoke the two steeds Lampus and Phaethon that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
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Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Reported
“Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind”
·Direct
“the stream of Oceanus”
·Remembered
“Perse, who is daughter to Oceanus”