#oceanid

• Amphitrite — A goddess of the sea in Greek mythology, one of the nereids (or oceanids), the wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton. In classical art, she is often depicted driving a chariot drawn by tritons or hippocamps, serving as the symbolic personification of the ocean's calm and majesty; her name is sometimes used figuratively in literature to designate the sea itself.
• Amphiro — A proper noun of Greek origin attributed to one of the three thousand Oceanids, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, mythologically personifying a rapid current or a specific aquatic flow; in astronomy, the term designates asteroid number 1005 (1005 Arago, previously known under the provisional code 1923 OA), a main-belt celestial body discovered in the year 1923.