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Typically, they were the daughters of Zeus and Oceanid Eurynome. [3] Alternative parentage may be Zeus and Eurydome, ... Hesiod, Theogony (v. 907–909). Orphic Hymns ...
In Greek mythology, Callichore or Kallichore (Classical Greek: Καλλιχόρη) is sometimes considered one of the Muses, and thus a daughter of Zeus (Jupiter); a scholion to Hesiod's Works and Days by John Tzetzes names her. [1] [2] She is better known, however, as one of the Nysiads, nymphs who nursed Dionysus from Book 14 of the ...
In Hesiod, Oceanus sends his daughter Styx, with her children Zelus (Envy), Nike (Victory), Kratos (Power), and Bia (Force), to fight on Zeus' side against the Titans, [76] while in the Iliad, Hera says that, during the Titanomachy, she was cared for by Oceanus and his wife the Titaness Tethys. [77]
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]
According to Hesiod's Theogony (seventh century BC), they were daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory. Hesiod in Theogony narrates that the Muses brought to people forgetfulness, that is, the forgetfulness of pain and the cessation of obligations.
Apollodorus, 1.1.6 makes the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus, daughters of Melisseus, leader of the Kuretes of Crete: Idyia or Eidyia [60] [61] Leucippe Libye [62] Lyris Lysithoe [63] Mother of Heracles by Zeus in some myths. [64] Melia (consort of Apollo) [65] See also (below) the Argive Oceanid Melia who was the consort of Inachus
Hesiod (c. 700 BC) described Eileithyia as a daughter of Hera by Zeus (Theogony 921) [17] —and the Bibliotheca (Roman-era) and Diodorus Siculus (c. 90–27 BC) (5.72.5) agreed. Also, a poem at the Greek Anthology Book 6, mention Eileithyia as Hera's daughter. [ 18 ]
An alternative version of the same myth makes the Cyclops Brontes rather than Zeus the father of Athena before Metis is swallowed. [15] Hesiod's account is followed by Acusilaus and the Orphic tradition, which enthroned Metis side by side with Eros as primal cosmogenic forces. Plato makes Poros, or "creative ingenuity", a son of Metis. [16]