Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Oceanus.
The gallery
Oceanus of the Trevi Fountain
Pietro Bracci, 1762
Colossal marble statue of Oceanus presiding over the central niche of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, carved by Pietro Bracci to Nicola Salvi's design. The sea Titan rides a shell-shaped chariot drawn by winged sea-horses — one calm, one restive — guided by tritons, an allegory of the ocean's changing moods.
Oceanus and Tethys (Zeugma mosaic)
Unknown, 2nd–3rd century AD
Roman floor mosaic from the ancient city of Zeugma on the Euphrates, now in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, Turkey. It portrays Oceanus beside his consort Tethys amid fish and sea creatures, an image of the world-encircling river the Greeks imagined girdling the earth.