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"...a pseudo-geographical feature in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the World Ocean, an enormous river encircling the world.
Strictly speaking, Oceanus was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (οἰκουμένη, oikoumene).[3] In Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia.
Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean (also called the "Ocean Sea"), while the newcomer of a later generation, Poseidon, ruled over the Mediterranean."

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done in coloured pencils and guache for the white details of water.
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unfortunately the drawing didn't fit all in the scanner so I couldn't scan it entirely. I do hope to get a full size image soon

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2550x3510px 2.41 MB
Date Taken
Jun 13, 2012, 11:31:32 PM
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Is a print of this drawing available for sale? Remarkable work.