(Greek mythology) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the ...

In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the ...

23 сент. 2024 г. · either of two ancient seas: an earlier one that extended into eastern Pangaea late in the Paleozoic Era, or a later one that separated ...

26 февр. 2024 г. · Origin and history of the name Tethys: name for the sea that lay between Eurasia and Africa-Arabia in Mesozoic times, coined 1893 by Ger .

The Tethys Ocean also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.

Tethys was the ancient Greek Titan-goddess of the primal font of fresh water which nourishes the earth. She was the wife of Oceanus, the earth-encircling, ...

Tethys in American English · 1. Classical Mythology. a Titan, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the wife of Oceanus and mother of the Oceanids and river gods · 2.

OED's earliest evidence for Tethys is from 1886, in the writing of A. Hall. From proper names. Etymons: proper names ...

Derived from Greek τήθη (tethe) meaning "grandmother". In Greek mythology this was the name of a Titan associated with the sea. She was the wife of Oceanus.