A minor sea-god. Proteus was the eldest son of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Proteus was often referred to as the "Old Man of the Sea". Proteus' 2999 brothers were all river gods, except for him.
Proteus had the ability to change his shape as well as having oracular power. If captured and held until he surrendered, he would answer his captor's questions about the future (which Menelaüs (Menelaus) did seven years after the fall of Troy).
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Proteus in The Odyssey had a small yet impactful part in the Greek classic. He, the Greek Sea god, had insurmountable knowledge and would only share his wisdom once captured. But why does he hide himself? What is he hiding? And is he truthful? To ...
Oceanus: The Procreating Pacifist Titan God of Water Oceanus ,Titan god of the sea, existed long before Poseidon. During the great war between the new Olympian gods and the Titans, he remained neutral, so he wasn’t punished with imprisonment. Stil...
Titan and god of the river Oceanus (Ocean). Oceanus was the eldest son of Uranus and Gaea. The river Oceanus was said to flow in a circular stream around the earth, which was conceived of as a flat disk. Oceanus married his sister Tethys. All of h...
A minor sea-god. Triton was the son of the Olympian Poseidon and the Oceanid (or Nereïd) Amphitrite. Triton was the brother of Albion, Benthesicyme, Charybdis and Rhodes. Triton was often described as a merman and carried a horn, which he blew. Tr...
Poseidon God: The Legend of the Grumpy, Greedy God of the Sea Poseidon, god of the sea, had a temper. Though the ancient Greeks prized civility, dignity, and morality in their ordered society, the Greek gods were incredibly fallible. They regularl...
An ancient sea-god. Nereus was the son of Pontus ("Sea") and Gaea ("Earth"). Nereus was the brother of Phorcys, Eurybia, Thaumas (father of Iris), and the sea monster Ceto. Nereus married an Oceanid named Doris who bore fifty sea-nymphs known as t...
According to Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes, Oceanus wasn't a Titan like in Hesiod's Theogony. Rather, he was primeval Ocean. See also the Titans, Oceanus. According to Homer, the gods arose from Oceanus and Tethys. Like Hesiod, the river Ocean (o...
Lord of the sea and also god of earthquakes and of horses. A son of the titans Cronus and Rhea, he was known as the Roman god of the sea, Neptune. After aiding his brother Zeus when they overthrew Cronus and sent the other Titans to Tartarus, he r...
Titaness of the sea. Tethys was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea. She married her brother Oceanus. She became the mother of all the river gods. She is said to have borne three thousand daughters, known as the Oceanids. The eldest daughter was Styx,...
Creator god. Protogonus (Protogonos) was the first god to be born from the Cosmic Egg (World Egg), which Chaos and Aether had reproduced according to the Orphic Creation Myths. Protogonus' name mean "First Born", and it was he who had created the ...