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Oceanid

[oh-see-uh-nid] / oʊˈsi ə nɪd /


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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

Heaven and Earth had formed his father, who had united his destinies with Clymene, one of the Oceanides.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

"Three thousand graceful Oceanides Long-stepping, tread the earth, or far and wide Dispersed, they haunt the glassy depth of lakes, A glorious sisterhood of goddess birth."

From Heathen Mythology by Various

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

The Oceanids, the nymphs of this great river, were their daughters.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Tethys is wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton




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