In Greek mythology, Ēōs (;, or, Éōs, " dawn ", or ; also Αὔως, Aýōs in Aeolic ) is a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the Oceanus.

One child of Gaia and Pontus is Nereus ( Old Man of the Sea ), who marries Doris, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and has Nereids, the fifty nymphs of the sea, one of whom is Thetis.

Amalthea is sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion (" Goat Mountain "), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage ( the daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olenos, or — according to Lactantius — Melisseus ), who brought him up on the milk of her goat.

On a fragmentary archaic vessel of circa 580 BC ( British Museum 1971. 11-1. 1 ), among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy.

Oceanus ' consort is his sister Tethys, and from their union came the ocean nymphs, also known as the three-thousand Oceanids, and all the rivers of the world, fountains, and lakes.

In the Iliad, the rich iconography of Achilles ' shield, which was fashioned by Hephaestus, is enclosed, as the world itself was believed to be, by Oceanus:

Hecateus of Abdera writes that the Oceanus of the Hyperboreans is neither the Arctic Ocean nor Western Ocean, but the sea located to the north of the ancient Greek world, called " the most admirable of all seas " by Herodotus ( lib.

The Bibliotheca ( 3. 12. 6 ) informs that the river Asopus was a son of Oceanus and Tethys or according to Acusilaus of Poseidon by Pero ( otherwise unknown to us ) or according to yet others of Zeus by Eurynome, not making it clear whether he knows there is more than one river named Asopus.

Like most river-gods, he is a son of Oceanus and Tethys.

The Melia thus singled out is one of these daughters of Oceanus.

Aethra is also the name of one of the Oceanids, the 3000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.

Oceanus Procellarum (; Latin for " Ocean of Storms ") is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of Earth's Moon.

It is the only one of the lunar maria to be called an " Oceanus " ( ocean ).

This is due to its size ; Oceanus Procellarum is the largest of the maria, stretching more than across its north-south axis and covering roughly.

Unlike the other lunar maria, however, Oceanus Procellarum is not contained within a single well-defined impact basin ( evidence for a " Procellarum basin " of impact origin is equivocal ).

To the northeast, Oceanus Procellarum is separated from Mare Imbrium by the Carpathian Mountains.

With a diameter of 1146 km, Mare Imbrium is second only to Oceanus Procellarum in size among the maria, and it is the largest mare associated with an impact basin.

Iapetus ' wife is normally a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys named Clymene or Asia.

Oceanus declares that he is willing to surrender his power to Neptune ( the new god of the sea ) because Neptune is more beautiful ( this is worth bearing in mind in relation to the Romantic idea that beauty is paramount ).

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas ' rescue after he falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

This Aeolus is most frequently conflated with Aeolus, the son of Poseidon, god of the sea.

Throughout the poem, Odysseus is hindered by the efforts of Poseidon and the sea monsters throughout the ocean.

The story is told that Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice.

Fosite has been suggested to be a loan of Greek Poseidon into pre-Proto-Germanic, perhaps via Greeks purchasing amber ( Pytheas is known to have visited the area of Heligoland in search of amber ).

Perhaps the most striking example is the Athenian king Erechtheus, whom Poseidon killed for choosing Athena over him as the city's patron god.

Laocoön is a Trojan priest of Poseidon ( or Neptune ), whose rules he had defied, either by marrying and having sons, or by having committed an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary.

According to the Hellenistic poet Euphorion of Chalcis, Laocoön is in fact punished for procreating upon holy ground sacred to Poseidon ; only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret his death as punishment for striking the Horse, which they bring into the city with disastrous consequences.

Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller ; he is forewarned of the flood ( this time by Zeus and Poseidon ); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth.

Odysseus ’ protectress, the goddess Athena, discusses his fate with Zeus, king of the gods, at a moment when Odysseus ' enemy, the god of the sea Poseidon, is absent from Mount Olympus.

When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".

Released by the intercession of his patroness Athena, through the aid of Hermes, he departs, but his raft is destroyed by his divine enemy Poseidon, who is angry because Odysseus blinded his son, Polyphemus.

Poseidon or Posidon ( Greek: ) is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology.

There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena.

A common epithet of Poseidon is Gaiēochos, " Earth-shaker ," an epithet which is also identified in Linear B tablets.

The most obvious identification for the " Two Queens " is with Demeter and Persephone, or their precursors, goddesses who were not associated with Poseidon in later periods.

The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.

In Mycenaean Knossos, Poseidon is already identified as " Earth-Shaker " ( e-ne-si-da-o-ne ), a powerful attribute ( earthquakes had accompanied the collapse of the Minoan palace-culture ).

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It is their tultul, the ' jumping platform ' of death.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

It is their job to think about the unthinkable.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

Unconcerned with the practical function of his actions, the dancer is engrossed exclusively in their `` motional content ''.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.