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Metis was an Oceanid nymph, one of the 3000 daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys, [5] and a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), which also numbered 3000. Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus , the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of ...
Doris, the wife of the sea-god Nereus; Idyia (Ίδυια), wife of the Colchian king Aeetes, mother of Medea; Leuce, first wife of Hades, became a white poplar tree; Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; Styx, goddess of the river Styx; Theia, mother of the Cercopes; For a more complete list, see List of ...
Zeus, by Gaia's advice, was elected king of the gods, and he distributed various honors among the gods. [25] Zeus then married his first wife Metis, but when he learned that Metis was fated to produce a son which might overthrow his rule, by the advice of Gaia and Uranus, Zeus swallowed Metis (while still pregnant with Athena). And so Zeus ...
These included Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; [12] Eurynome, Zeus' third wife, and mother of the Charites; [13] Doris, the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids; [14] Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon; [15] Clymene, the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius ...
Styx was the wife of the Titan Pallas, and the mother of Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia. [15] Eurynome, Zeus' third wife, was the mother of the Charites. [16] Clymene was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. [17] Electra was the wife of the sea god Thaumas and the mother of Iris and the ...
Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.
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According to one such account, she is the mother of Tartarus by Aether, [10] while in others, she is described as the mother of Eros by Aether, [11] or the mother of Aether, Eros, and Metis by Erebus. [12] The poet Bacchylides apparently considered Nyx to be the mother of Hemera by Chronos (Time), [13] and elsewhere mentions Hecate as her ...