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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

As to Prometheus, bringing ease In pain, come the Oceanides, So to the City, hot with the flame Of the pitiless sun, the east wind came.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Worse than all other torments of the Titan’s bed of pain, would be wild dreams of impossible Oceanides!

From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

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

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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