Plate VIITitanSea
Oceanus&Oceanus
The World-Encircling River
Graecia
Oceanus
The Great River
Sacred Attributes
River-urn, bull horn, sea-serpent
Historical Origins
Eldest Titan — the great river circling the world and father of all waters.
Personality & Character
Neutral, peaceable and withdrawn; he sat out the Titanomachy entirely.
Cult & Sacrifice
First-fruits and river libations; no blood.
Cultural Ethos
The boundary river dividing the known world from the strange.
Roma
Oceanus
Father of Waters
Sacred Attributes
Urn, oar, sea-monster, dolphin
Historical Origins
Retained in Roman poetry and mosaics as the world-ocean, without a temple.
Personality & Character
A decorative and geographic power, not a cultic personality.
Cult & Sacrifice
None of note.
Cultural Ethos
The sea as the edge of the empire's map.
Syncretism Analysis
Oceanus barely changed, because there was never a personality to adapt — Rome inherited him as geography. He is the clearest case of pure literary, rather than religious, transmission.
Modern Reception
Percy Jackson & the OlympiansNovelHadesVideo Game