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Anius was born either on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, or on Euboea, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Staphylus when he had discovered her pregnancy was washed ashore there. Rhoeo then, placing the baby on Apollo's altar, asked the god to care for it, if it was his. [1]
Only Apollo answered his prayer, and appearing to him, took him to Olympia. There, Apollo taught him the art of prophecy and gave him the power to understand and explain the voices of birds. Iamus later founded the Iamidae , a family of priests from Olympia .
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Phoebe's consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, first Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and then Asteria, a star goddess who bore an only daughter, Hecate. [7] Hesiod in the Theogony describes Phoebe as " χρυσοστέφανος " ( khrysostéphanos , meaning "golden-crowned").
Chrysothemis was the daughter of Carmanor of Crete, the priest who purified Apollo and Artemis after the killing of Python, a chthonic serpent deity that presided over the Delphic oracle. When Apollo slew the serpent at the Delphi shrine, he claimed the site for himself. But, for his act of sacrilege, Zeus ordered him to be purified.
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Eileithyia or Ilithyia (/ ɪ l ɪ ˈ θ aɪ. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Εἰλείθυια; Ἐλεύθυια (Eleuthyia) in Crete, also Ἐλευθία (Eleuthia) or Ἐλυσία (Elysia) in Laconia and Messene, and Ἐλευθώ (Eleuthō) in literature) [2] was the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery, [3] and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
According to a scholium on Pindar, she was the daughter of either Apollo, Perses or Oceanus. [2] Chariclo together with her mother-in-law Philyra the Oceanid, were the nurses of the young Achilles. [3] Chariclo, a nymph devotee of Athena, who became pregnant by a shepherd, Everes, giving birth to the prophet Tiresias. Tiresias was struck blind ...