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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 ...
She seems to have been linked to witchcraft and knowledge of herbs and potions, much like her daughters Circe and Pasiphaë. [14] She might have also been associated with the witchcraft goddess Hecate, who was also called Perseis (as in "daughter of Perses") [15] [16] and who is said to be Circe's mother in one version. [17] [18]
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]
'of the stars, starry one') is a daughter of the Titans Coeus (Polus) and Phoebe and the sister of Leto. According to Hesiod, by the Titan Perses she had a single child, a daughter named Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft. Other authors made Asteria the mother of the fourth Heracles and Hecate by Zeus.
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 ...
Medus then slew Perses. [4] [6] 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 this Perses the father of Hecate by an unknown mother; Perses' brother Aeëtes then married Hecate and had Medea and Circe by her. [7]
Aeëtes was the son of Sun god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, brother of Circe, Perses and Pasiphaë, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Absyrtus.His consort was either (1) Idyia, the youngest daughter of Oceanus, [3] (2) Asterodeia, a Caucasian Oceanid, [4] (3) the Nereid Neaera, [5] [6] (4) Clytia, [7] (5) Ipsia [8] or Eurylyte.
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"). [1]