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==Names== {{Main|List of Oceanids}} Hesiod gives the name of 41 Oceanids, with other ancient sources providing many more. While some were important figures, most were not. Some were perhaps the names of actual springs, others merely poetic inventions.<ref>West, p. 260.</ref> Some names, consistent with the Oceanids' charge of having "youths in their keeping", represent things which parents might hope to be bestowed upon their children: Plouto ("Wealth"), Tyche ("Good Fortune"), Idyia ("Knowing"), and Metis ("Wisdom").<ref>Fowler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 p. 13].</ref> Others appear to be geographical [[eponyms]], such as Europa, Asia, Ephyra ([[Corinth]]), and Rhodos ([[Rhodes]]).<ref>Fowler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 pp. 13β16].</ref> Several of the names of Oceanids were also among the names given to the [[Nereids]].
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