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Apollodorus

Apollodorus. The Library. Frazer, James George, Sir, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

Now to the Titans were born offspring: to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia, Styx,

Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis;[*](Compare Hes. Th. 346-366, who mentions all the Oceanids named by Apollodorus except Amphitrite, who was a Nereid. See Apollod. 1.2.7; Hes. Th. 243.) to Coeus and Phoebe were born Asteria and Latona;[*](As to the offspring of Coeus and Phoebe, see Hes. Th. 404ff. ) to Hyperion and Thia were born Dawn, Sun, and Moon;[*](As to the offspring of Hyperion and Thia, see Hes. Th. 371ff. ) to Crius and Eurybia, daughter of Sea ( Pontus), were born Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses;[*](As to the offspring of Crius and Eurybia, see Hes. Th. 375ff. )

to Iapetus and Asia was born Atlas, who has the sky on his shoulders, and Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Menoetius, he whom Zeus in the battle with the Titans smote with a thunderbolt and hurled down to Tartarus.[*](As to the offspring of Iapetus and Asia, see Hes. Th. 507-520ff. )

And to Cronus and Philyra was born Chiron, a centaur of double form;[*](It is said that Cronus assumed the shape of a horse when he consorted with Philyra, and that, we are told, was why Chiron was born a centaur, half-man, half-horse. See Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.554.) and to Dawn and Astraeus were born winds and stars;[*](As to the offspring of Dawn and Astraeus, see Hes. Th. 378ff. ) to Perses and Asteria was born Hecate;[*](As to this parentage of Hecate, see Hes. Th. 409ff. But the ancients were not agreed on the subject. See the Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. iii.467. He tells us that according to the Orphic hymns, Hecate was a daughter of Deo; according to Bacchylides, a daughter of Night; according to Musaeus, a daughter of Zeus and Asteria; and according to Pherecydes, a daughter of Aristaeus.) and to Pallas and Styx were born Victory, Dominion, Emulation, and Violence.[*](For this brood of abstractions, the offspring of Styx and Pallas, see Hes. Th. 383ff.; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte.)

But Zeus caused oaths to be sworn by the water of Styx, which flows from a rock in Hades, bestowing this honor on her because she and her children had fought on his side against the Titans.[*](Compare Hes. Th. 389-403ff. As to the oath by the water of Styx, see further Hes. Th. 775ff.; compare Hom. Il. 15.37ff., Hom. Od. 5.186; HH Apoll. 86ff. )

And to Sea ( Pontus) and Earth were born Phorcus,

Thaumas, Nereus, Eurybia, and Ceto.[*](As to the offspring of Sea ( Pontus, conceived as masculine) and Earth (conceived as feminine), see Hes. Th. 233ff.; Hyginus, Fab. p. 28, ed. Bunte.) Now to Thaumas and Electra were born Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete;[*](As to the offspring of Thaumas and Electra, see Hes. Th. 265ff. ) and to Phorcus and Ceto were born the Phorcides and Gorgons,[*](As to the parentage of the Phorcides and Gorgons, see Hes. Th. 270ff.; Hyginus, Fab. p. 29, ed. Bunte. As to the monsters themselves, see Apollod. 2.4.2ff. ) of whom we shall speak when we treat of Perseus.

To Nereus and Doris were born the Nereids,[*](For lists of Nereids, see Hom. Il. 18.38-49; Hes. Th. 240-264ff.; HH Dem. 417-423; Verg. G. 4.334-344; Hyginus, Fab. pp. 28ff., ed. Bunte.) whose names are Cymothoe, Spio, Glauconome, Nausithoe, Halie, Erato, Sao, Amphitrite, Eunice, Thetis, Eulimene, Agave, Eudore, Doto, Pherusa, Galatea, Actaea, Pontomedusa, Hippothoe, Lysianassa, Cymo, Eione, Halimede, Plexaure, Eucrante, Proto, Calypso, Panope, Cranto, Neomeris, Hipponoe, Ianira, Polynome, Autonoe, Melite, Dione, Nesaea, Dero, Evagore, Psamathe, Eumolpe, Ione, Dynamene, Ceto, and Limnoria.