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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In Greek mythology, Phorcys is a name given to two different creatures. These creatures have different stories and are mentioned in separate works by Homer and Hesiod. Both the creatures are important to the mythology in their own ways. In this ar...
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 (fathe...
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 as t...
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 Lion, the...
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 G...
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 they...
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 Styx,...
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 part...
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 r...