An ancient sea-god. Phorcys was the son of Pontus and Gaea. Phorcys may have been an important sea-god before the arrival of Poseidon. By his sister Ceto (sea-monster), he became the father of the Gorgons, Graeae, and possibly of Echidna and Ladon.
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Ceto (Κητώ) was a sea-monster, the daughter of Pontus ("Sea") and Gaea ("Earth"). Ceto was the sister of the sea gods Nereus and Phorcys . Not much detail is known about Ceto except that she was mother of several monstrous offspring by her brother...
A personification of the sea. Pontus was born, along with Uranus ("Sky") and Ourea ("Hill"), from Gaea . Pontus literally means the "sea". Pontus lay with his mother Gaea and became the father of Nereus and Phorcys , and also Eurybia, Thaumas (fat...
An ancient sea-god. Nereus was the son of Pontus ("Sea") and Gaea ("Earth"). Nereus was the brother of Phorcys , Eurybia , Thaumas (father of Iris ), and the sea monster Ceto . Nereus married an Oceanid named Doris who bore fifty sea-nymphs known ...
The genealogy above displays most of the principal monsters that are found in classical mythology. Most of the monsters were children of Typhon and Echidna , and of Phorcys and Ceto . Please note that Echidna was sometimes seen as the offspring of...
Echidna was a monster, part woman and part snake. She was the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto , or perhaps of Tartarus and Gaea . By Typhon, Echidna was the mother of many monstrous offspring: Cerberus , Chimaera , Orthus , the Hydra , the Nemean Lio...
Cetus was a sea monster that Poseidon sent to punish Cassiopeia, wife of King Cepheus of Joppa, and mother of Andromeda . Cassiopeia had boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereïds , the sea nymphs. The city would be spared if th...
Titaness of the sea. Tethys was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea . She married her brother Oceanus . She became the mother of all the river gods. She is said to have borne three thousand daughters, known as the Oceanids . The eldest daughter was St...
Typhon was a giant winged monster with a hundred heads. Typhon (Τυφών) was an offspring of Gaea ("Earth") and Tartarus , and according to Apollodorus, the creature was born in Cilicia. Typhon was a gigantic winged monster that was part man and par...
Lord of the sea and also god of earthquakes and of horses. A son of the titans Cronus and Rhea , he was known as the Roman god of the sea, Neptune . After aiding his brother Zeus when they overthrew Cronus and sent the other Titans to Tartarus, he...
A sea-goddess. Doris was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys . Doris was mostly known as mother of the fifty sea-nymphs called the Nereïds (Nereids, mermaids?), and married to the ancient sea-god, Nereus . She has no myth of her own; she was possib...