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From her father Perses, Hecate is often called "Perseis" (meaning "daughter of Perses") [77] [78] which is also the name of one of the Oceanid nymphs, Helios’ wife and Circe's mother in other versions. [79] In one version of Hecate's parentage, she is the daughter of Perses not the son of Crius but the son of Helios, whose mother is the ...
Although distinct from the Titan known as Perses, who is known for fathering Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica made Perses of Colchis the father of Hecate by an unknown mother; Perses' brother Aeëtes then married Hecate and had Medea and Circe by her. [11]
Perseis' name has been linked to Περσίς (Persís), "female Persian", and πέρθω (pérthō), "destroy" or "slay" or "plunder". [citation needed]Kerenyi also noted the connection between her and Hecate due to their names, denoting a chthonic aspect of the nymph, as well as that of Persephone, whose name "can be taken to be a longer, perhaps simply a more ceremonious, form of Perse ...
Hesiod "oddly" describes Perses as "eminent among all men in wisdom." [2] [4] He was wed to his cousin Asteria, the daughter of Phoebe and Coeus, [5] [3] with whom he had one child, Hecate, honoured by the king of the gods Zeus above all others as the goddess of magic, crossroads, and witchcraft. [4]
Perses, the 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, the son of the sun-god Helios and the sea-nymph Perse, brother to Aeëtes, Circe and Pasiphaë. [3] Perses, the son of Perseus and Andromeda and legendary ancestor of the ...
With two other poems by male writers it is much the same: Louis Macneice's, for example, whose "Circe" appeared in his first volume, Poems (London, 1935); or Robert Lowell's, whose "Ulysses and Circe" appeared in his last, Day by Day (New York, 1977). Both poets have appropriated the myth to make a personal statement about their broken ...
Melinoë is the daughter of Persephone and was fathered by Zeus, [6] who tricked her via "wily plots" by taking the form of Hades, indicating that in the hymn Persephone is already married to Hades. [7]
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 ...