Tethys

Family: Titanides · Role: goddess · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Tethys)

In the account from Library 1.2, Ocean and Tethys produced the Oceanids, including Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis. Tethys was also the parent of Inachus and Asopus with Ocean.

In the later Theogony account, Earth and Heaven produced Tethys among the first generation of Titans, alongside Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, and Phoebe. With Ocean, Tethys bore rivers including Nilus, Alpheus, Eridanus, Strymon, Meander, Ister, Phasis, Rhesus, Achelous, Nessus, and Scamander, as well as the daughters Peitho and Admete.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ocean and Tethys produced the Oceanids, including Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis.(Apollodorus, Library 1.2)
  • With: Ocean Asia Styx Electra Doris Eurynome Amphitrite Metis
  • “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis;”
• Earth and Heaven produce the first generation of Titans.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116)
  • With: Earth Heaven Oceanus Coeus Crius Hyperion Iapetus Theia Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Phoebe
  • “But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.1

• parent: Sky “And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus; also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia.”
• parent: Earth “And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus; also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.2

• child: Asia “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia”
• child: Styx “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx”
• child: Electra “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra”
• child: Doris “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris”
• child: Eurynome “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome”
• child: Amphitrite “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite”
• child: Metis “to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia , Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• child: Inachus “Ocean and Tethys had a son Inachus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• child: Asopus “The Asopus river was a son of Ocean and Tethys”

Hesiod, Theogony 1-116

• parent: Heaven “But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• with Ocean (interaction) “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers”
• with Ocean (interaction) “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers”
• child: Styx “These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys”
• child: Nilus “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus”
• child: Alpheus “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus”
• child: Eridanus “And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus”
• child: Strymon “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
• child: Meander “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
• child: Ister “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
• child: Phasis “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
• child: Rhesus “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
• child: Achelous “the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus”
• child: Nessus “the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus”
• child: Scamander “Ladon, Parthenius, Euenus, Ardescus, and divine Scamander”
• child: Peitho “These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys”
• child: Admete “These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys”

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