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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.
Oceanus Procellarum (; Latin for " Ocean of Storms ") is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of Earth's Moon.
In Greek mythology, Telesto or Telestho (; English translation: " success ") was a sea goddess, one of the daughters of Titan Oceanus and Tethys.

Oceanus and );
Riccioli is quoted as having " flung Copernicus into the Ocean of Storms " ( Oceanus Procellarum ); nevertheless in naming one of the most prominent craters on the Moon for the man, he may have indicated his true intent.

Oceanus and was
* 2005: The Canadian red tide was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by the ship ( R / V ) Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.
Styx was also the name of the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
In Greek mythology, Metis ( Μῆτις, " wisdom ," " skill ," or " craft ") was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that Metis was born of Oceanus and Tethys, of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings.
* In 2005 the Canadian HAB was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by a ship called The Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.
Strictly speaking, Oceanus was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere ( οἰκουμένη, oikoumene ).
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:
The journey of Heracles in the sun-bowl upon Oceanus was a favored theme among painters of Attic pottery.
Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt as a cause of the annual flood of the Nile river ; according to his translator and interpreter, Livio Catullo Stecchini, he left unsettled the question of an equatorial Nile, since the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa was unknown to him.
Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris ( and thus a Nereid ), according to Hesiod's Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys ( and thus an Oceanid ), according to the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both of the Nereids and the Oceanids.
Some Greek sources say that he was the son of Gaia and Oceanus ; however, ancient Greeks generally believed with Hesiod that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all three thousand river gods.
In Greek mythology, Aeëtes ( also spelled Æëtes ) (), ( Laz and Georgian Aiet ' i, აიეტი ), was a King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus.
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.
In other stories, she was the mother of Amycus by Poseidon, as the Olympian representative of Oceanus.
Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.
In Greek mythology, Phoroneus ( Φορωνεύς ) was a culture-hero of the Argolid, fire-bringer, primordial king of Argos and son of the river god Inachus and either Melia, the primordial ash-tree nymph or Argia, the embodiment of the Argolid itself: " Inachus, son of Oceanus, begat Phoroneus by his sister Argia ," wrote Hyginus, in Fabulae 143.
In Greek mythology, Peneus ( Πηνειός ) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers ( Potamoi ), a child of Oceanus and Tethys.
Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of glorious Oceanus, was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Heracles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos.
Asia in Greek mythology was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.

Oceanus and feature
The surface of this mare displays some swirling, higher albedo deposits that are similar to the Reiner Gamma feature on the Oceanus Procellarum.
To the west-northwest of the crater on the Oceanus Procellarum is the unusual feature Reiner Gamma, a fish-shaped surface marking of ray-like material with a high albedo.
Reiner Gamma ( γ ) is an albedo feature that is located on the Oceanus Procellarum, to the west of the crater Reiner on the Moon.
The walls of some mithrea feature allegorical depictions of the cosmos with Oceanus and Caelus.
Raman is a small lunar crater that lies on the western edge of a plateau feature in the expansive lunar mare named Oceanus Procellarum.
Mons Rümker is an isolated volcanic formation that is located in the northwest part of the Moon's near side, at selenographic coordinates 40. 8 ° N, 58. 1 ° W. The feature forms a large, elevated mound in the northern part of the Oceanus Procellarum.
The northeastern rim of this crater is on the edge of the Sinus Roris, a bay feature in the northwestern part of the Oceanus Procellarum.

Oceanus and classical
:” It is tempting to see ... the classical Perse ... daughter of Oceanus ...; whether it may be further identified with the first element of Persephone is only speculative .”
Similarly in Greek mythology, the world was surrounded by Oceanus, the world-ocean of classical antiquity.

Oceanus and believed
The Apollo 12 mission landed north of Copernicus on mare basalts of Oceanus Procellarum that were believed to have been in the path of one of the crater's rays, and scientists hoped cosmic ray exposure ages of soil samples would help constrain the crater age.

Oceanus and by
One shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass showing Assyria, Urartu and several cities, in turn surrounded by a " bitter river " ( Oceanus ), with seven islands arranged around it.
He tells how Ptolemy " placed in a circle around the statue Homer all the cities who laid claim to Homer " and mentions a painting of the poet by the artist Galaton, which apparently depicted Homer in the aspect of Oceanus as the source of all poetry.
Inscriptions are referring to " the Goddesses " accompanied by the agricultural god Triptolemos probably son of Ge and Oceanus.
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.
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 Elysian Fields were, according to Homer, located on the western edge of the Earth by the stream of Oceanus.
Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second greatest river in the world, excelled only by Oceanus.
Liriope was loved by the river-god Cephissus, who was himself the son of Oceanus and Tethys, and bore his son Narcissus.
The Telchines were entrusted by Rhea with the upbringing of Poseidon, which they accomplished with the aid of Capheira ( Καφείρα ), a daughter of Oceanus.
Like all lunar maria, Oceanus Procellarum was formed by ancient basaltic flood volcanic eruptions that covered the region in a thick, nearly flat layer of solidified magma.
To the northeast, Oceanus Procellarum is separated from Mare Imbrium by the Carpathian Mountains.
Imaginative accounts of the sun, voyaging at night from west to east in a golden bed, and of Jason the Argonaut voyaging to " Aeetes ' city, where the rays of the swift Sun lie in a golden storeroom at the edge of Oceanus ", survive in brief quotes by ancient authors.
* MS Hanseatic Renaissance, a cruise ship operated by Hanseatic Tours 1991 – 1992, as of 2008 sailing as Spirit of Oceanus
For Crates, following the mere form of mathematical demonstration, says that the torrid zone is " occupied " by Oceanus and that on both sides of this zone are the temperate zones, the one being on our side, while the other is on the other side of it.

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