Oceanid
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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
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Tethys is wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton