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Oceanid

[oh-see-uh-nid] / oʊˈsi ə nɪd /


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Taking a journey through icy waters and cascading waterfalls, the London Philharmonic present a quartet of pieces, including Debussy's La Mer and Sibelius's Oceanides - with an aquatic theme.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2025

The following afternoon, "Become Ocean" followed two oceanic works, Sibelius' "The Oceanides" and Britten's Four Sea Interludes, and Passacaglia from "Peter Grimes."

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2018

Perhaps three of the Oceanides, bright as the pure foam of the wave?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse

Tethys, wife of Oceanus, their children being the Oceanides and river-gods.

From Milton's Comus by William Bell

A brother of the Oceanides, the prudent Nereus, used to reign in the depths of the Mediterranean.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

The Oceanids, the nymphs of this great river, were their daughters.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Tethys is wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton




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