Hesiod, Works and Days ff trans. How, in the beginning, Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Okeanos Oceanus , governed the world from snow-clad Olympos; how they were forcibly supplanted, Ophion by Kronos Cronus , Eurynome by Rhea; of their fall into the waters of Okeanos; and how their successors ruled the happy Titan gods. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his strong hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an awesome flame. Page, Vol. In the Hellenistic era, Okeanos was reimagined as the god of the then increasingly accessible Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the old cosmological idea of a great, earth-encircling, fresh-water stream was discarded.
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