Ōkeanos

... of the known world, that is, both in the Far East and in the Far West, on the banks of the world-encircling river named Ōkeanos, Ο.01.022–024. The idea that the Aethiopians live at ... Continue reading

... s that the sun rises again every morning at sunrise, as here at I.08.421–423 as also at O.19.433–434. This cosmic river Ōkeanos, encircling the known world, is a boundary delimitin ... Continue reading

... fically the Sun’s rising from it and stirring fertile lands and a solar model of death and regenerationThe cosmic river Ōkeanos, encircling the known world, is a boundary delimitin ... Continue reading

... g as not only ‘genesis of gods’ but also ‘genesis for all things’Highlighted in the comments so far on the cosmic river Ōkeanos is the role of this world-encircling fresh-water str ... Continue reading

... δράσιν ἠδὲ θεοῖς, πλείστην <τ᾿> ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἵησινTaken together, these verses can be translated this way:I.14.246 … Ōkeanos, who has been fashioned as genesis for allI.14.246a ... Continue reading

... ot only ‘genesis of gods’ but also ‘genesis for all things’The goddess Hērā refers here at I.14.302 to the cosmic river Ōkeanos as the ‘genesis of the gods’ (θεῶν γένεσιν). This re ... Continue reading

... sis of the Orphic dimensions of the Shield of Achilles, here Okeanos and the idea of coming full circleThe cosmic river Ōkeanos is described here at I.18.399 as apsorhoos ‘backward ... Continue reading

The goddess of dawn, Eos, is pictured here as emerging from the streams of the cosmic river Ōkeanos at sunrise. The dawn emerges just as the sun itself is pictured as emerging from the Ōkeanos at every sunrise after having submerged into it a ... Continue reading

... .21.193–199, and, in this context, Achilles mentions by name two of the mightiest river gods: Akhelōios at I.21.194 and Ōkeanos at I.21.195. Even the Ōkeanos, Achilles goes on to s ... Continue reading

... —the verse at I.21.195, as we know from the scholia for this verse in the Geneva manuscript of the Iliad.  At I.21.195, Ōkeanos is named as the referent of the relative clause at I ... Continue reading

... what is ‘the river’ here? In terms of Homeric poetry, this river must be the world-enclircling fresh-water stream named Ōkeanos, which as we see in the comment on I.07.421–423 is a ... Continue reading

The Olympians habitually go to the realm of the Aethiopians, situated on the banks of the cosmic river Ōkeanos, to dine with them there. The Aethiopians simultaneously inhabit the Far West and the Far East. This simultaneity is a mark of a theme that ca ... Continue reading

... f the living to the realm of the dead, he must first sail his ship to the end of the sea, delimited by the cosmic river Ōkeanos, and then he must sail on by somehow crossing this r ... Continue reading

... day will never be found. Demarcating this zone, at the limits of the Extreme West, is the world-encircling cosmic river Ōkeanos, O.11.013. As Odysseus and his companions navigate t ... Continue reading

Having arrived at the Ōkeanos, Odysseus and his companions beach their ship there and disembark, Ο.11.020, proceeding to the place in Hādēs where Circe had instructed them ... Continue reading

After departing from Hādēs, Odysseus and his companions get back into their ship and navigate toward the sea by way of the Ōkeanos, O.11.639. After departing from Hādēs, Odysseus and his companions get back into their ship and navigate toward the sea by way of the Ōkeanos, ... Continue reading

... from that realm of darkness and death. As Odysseus now returns from Hādēs, crossing again the circular cosmic stream of Ōkeanos at O.12.001–002 and coming back to his point of depa ... Continue reading

As we see here at O.19.433–434, the sun rises from the waters of the world-encircling river Ōkeanos at sunrise, as also at I.07.421–423, and it sets into these same waters at sunset, as we see at I.08.485–486. See the comment at I.07.421–423. ... Continue reading

... [an-harpáxāsa]...’, O.20.063 (ἢ ἔπειτά μ’ ἀναρπάξασα θύελλα), ‘... and drop me into the forward-flowing streams of the Ōkeanos’, O.20.063–065 (ἐν προχοῇς βάλοι ... Ὠκεανοῖο). This ... Continue reading

... nsciousness on the other side. Situated between these two worlds here are five mythological landmarks: the cosmic river Ōkeanos, O.24.011; the White Rock (leukas petrā), O.24.011; ... Continue reading