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Invoked in passing by poets and figured as the father of rivers and streams, thus the progenitor of river gods, Oceanus appears only once in myth, as a representative of the archaic world that Heracles constantly threatened and bested.

Heracles forced the loan from Helios of his golden bowl, in order to cross the wide expanse of the Ocean on his trip to the Hesperides.

When Oceanus tossed the bowl, Heracles threatened him and stilled his waves.

The journey of Heracles in the sun-bowl upon Oceanus was a favored theme among painters of Attic pottery.