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In Greek mythology, Perses (/ ˈ p ɜːr s i z / PUR-seez; Ancient Greek: Πέρσης, romanized: Pérsēs, lit. 'destroyer') is the son of the Titan Crius and Eurybia, and thus brother to Astraeus and Pallas. Ancient tradition records very little of Perses other than his marriage and offspring, his role largely being genealogical, existing ...
Perses, son of the Titan Crius and the sea-goddess Eurybia, brother to Astraeus and Pallas. [1] He married his cousin Asteria and became the father of Hecate. [2] Perses, son of the sun-god Helios and the sea-nymph Perse, brother to Aeëtes, Circe and Pasiphaë. [3] Perses, son of Perseus and Andromeda and legendary ancestor of the Persians. [4 ...
Perse was one of the wives of the sun god, Helios. [6] [7] According to Homer and Hesiod, with Helios she had Circe and Aeëtes, [8] with later authors also mentioning their children Pasiphaë, [9] Perses, [10] Aloeus, [11] and even Calypso, [11] who is however more commonly the daughter of Atlas.
Titans and Titanesses English name Greek name Description The twelve Titans Coeus: Κοῖος (Koîos) God of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Crius: Κρεῖος (Kreîos) The least individualized of the Twelve Titans, he is the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Implied to be the god of ...
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: Τιτᾶνες Tītânes; singular: Titán) were the pre-Olympian gods. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod , they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth).
Perses' brother Aeëtes had been warned by an oracle that great peril would come to him if the golden fleece was ever removed from Colchis. [2] Indeed, after Medea helped Jason steal the fleece, Perses usurped the throne of Colchis from his brother, but was subsequently slain by Medea, his paternal niece, who restored her father to the throne, [3] as an oracle had once predicted that he would ...
In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: / ˈ p ɜː r. s i. ə s /, UK: / ˈ p ɜː. sj uː s /; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [1]
In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy (/ ˌ t aɪ t ə ˈ n ɒ m ə k i /; Ancient Greek: Τιτανομαχία, romanized: Titanomakhía, lit. 'Titan-battle', Latin: Titanomachia) was a ten-year [1] series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who ...