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Apollodorus gives a list containing seven names, [7] as well as mentioning five other Oceanids elsewhere. [8] Of these twelve names, eight match Hesiod. [9] Hyginus, at the beginning of his Fabulae, lists sixteen names, while elsewhere he gives the names of ten others. [10] Of these 26 names, only nine are found in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymn, or ...
She first appears in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BCE, [2] but is best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica. As a daughter of King Aeëtes, she is a mythical granddaughter of the sun god Helios and a niece of Circe, an enchantress goddess. Her mother might have been Idyia. [3]
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [3] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [4] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [5]
According to Hesiod, and Apollodorus, Stheno and Euryale, along with Medusa, were daughters of the primordial sea-god Phorcys and the sea-monster Ceto, [5] while, according to Hyginus, they were daughters of "the Gorgon", an offspring of Typhon and Echidna, and Ceto.
Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background. Key: Dotted lines show a marriage or affair. Key: Solid lines show children.
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Besides Ceto, Gaia (Earth) and Pontus had four other offspring, Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys and Eurybia. [2] Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Ceto and Phorcys as the two Graiae: Pemphredo and Enyo, and the three Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa, [3] with their last offspring being an unnamed serpent (later called Ladon, by Apollonius of Rhodes) who guards the golden apples. [4]
The Theogony (Ancient Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, [2] i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods" [3]) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. [4]