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Okeanos and Tethys (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
creation of the universe
Okeanos
Tethys
Period
6th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.80 (Scholia):
This tale too do the poets introduce, that Okeanos is the father of the gods, and Tethys the mother; and a man and his wife (are) Okeanos and Tethys; and that of old they separated from one another. But because of the request of Hera their union and love took place again. The tale, he says, hints that Okeanos is humid nature, but Tethys dry, that is, the earth; that when of old the damp nature did not participate with the earth, nothing was born, and everything perished. Afterwards, when Hera - in that she is the overseer of marriage - reconciled the two elements, there was, thenceforward, birth.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.80 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 122-123Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus


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