The designation of the representative of the waters which girdle the earth, and from which all springs, rivers and lakes derive. The etymology of the name remains a mystery. Okeanos was supposed to be the son of the sky-god (→ Uranós) and...

Oceanus (Greek Ωκεανός, Okeanos) was believed to be the world-ocean in classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans and Greeks considered to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was the ocean-stream at the...