Son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Perses and Pallas. By the goddess Eos, he was the father of Boreas, Zephyrus and Notus - gods of winds (see also Aeolus for more detail about the wind gods).
His name means "Starry" because he was also the father of the stars.
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Perses was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Astraeüs (Astraeus) and Pallas. He married Asteria and became the father of Hecate. Perses was probably imprisoned with the other Titans for participating in the war against...
Daughter of Gaea and Pontus. Eurybia married the Titan Crius, and was the mother of Astraeüs (Astraeus), Perses and Pallas. For some reason, Hesiod says that she had a heart of flint. Hesiod had also called her a bright goddess.
Titan. Crius was the son of Uranus and Gaea. Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, daughter of Gaea and Pontus, and became the father of Perses, Pallas and Astraeus. When Zeus overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, Crius was confined with them in...
Pallas was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Perses and Astraeüs (Astraeus). He married the Oceanid Styx, and became the father of Bia ("Violence"), Cratus ("Strength"), Nike ("Victory") and Zelus ("Emulation").
Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeüs (Coeus) and Phoebe. She was the sister of Leto. Asteria married Perses and became mother of Hecate. Not long after her brother was imprisoned in Tartarus, Zeus fell in love with her. Zeus chased Phoebe,...
Crius: The Forgotten Titan and Pillar of the Starlit South Crius, Titan of the Constellations, is one of the least recognized gods in Greek mythology. He appeared very little in the old stories, and not at all after Zeus and the Olympian gods came...
Titan of intellect. Coeüs (Coeus) was the son of Uranus and Gaea. He married his sister Phoebe and became the father of Leto and Asteria. Coeüs seemed to be the god of intellect. When Zeus overthrew Cronus and the other male Titans, Coeüs was conf...
Goddess of dawn. Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia. The Romans identified her as Aurora. Some say that she brought dawn by riding her chariot across the sky, while others say that she was a winged-goddess. Her horses that pull her chariot...
The sky and the god of the sky. Uranus was the son of Gaea and possibly of Aether. Uranus married his mother and became the first supreme ruler of the world. (According to the Orphic myth, Gaea and Uranus were not mother and son. Rather they were ...
Keeper of the winds. Aeolus (Αἴολος) was the son of Hippotas. Aeolus was the king of the island Aeolia. It was Zeus who gave Aeolus the duties of the winds. Aeolus had a famous guest on his island and gave Odysseus a gift: a bag containing all of ...