Claim: Marforio, a talking statue of Rome, depicts the likeness of Oceanus, a Titan of Greek mythology and the father of the river gods.
Evidence: Marphurius or Marforio (Italian: Marforio; Medieval Latin: Marphurius, Marforius) is one of the talking statues of Rome. Marforio is a large 1st century Roman marble sculpture of a reclining bearded river god or Oceanus, which in the past has been variously identified as a depiction of Jupiter, Neptune, or the Tiber. In Greek mythology, Oceanus (/oʊˈsiː.ə.nəs/; Greek: , also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was the Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.