Phoebe

Family: Titanides · Role: daughter of Leucippus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Phoebe)

At Messene, Castor and Pollux abducted Leucippus’s daughters, Phoebe and Hilaira, and married them: “And wishing to marry the daughters of Leucippus, they carried them off from Messene and wedded them;” Pollux later had Mnesileus by Phoebe. She is also identified as a daughter of Leucippus and as one of the Titanides, born to Sky and Earth.

In the account of the Titans, Heaven and Earth produced Phoebe among their children. Phoebe came to the embrace of Coeus, with whom she had Asteria and Latona; Hesiod likewise names Leto as born through their love.

Relationship record

Life events

• Castor and Pollux abducted Leucippus’s daughters and married them.(Apollodorus, Library 3.11 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Castor Pollux Leucippus Hilaira
  • “And wishing to marry the daughters of Leucippus, they carried them off from Messene and wedded them;”
• 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 Tethys
  • “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: Asteria “to Coeus and Phoebe were born Asteria and Latona”
• child: Latona “to Coeus and Phoebe were born Asteria and Latona”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Leucippus “Leucippus had daughters, Hilaira and Phoebe”
• married with Pollux “these the Dioscuri carried off and married.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.11

• parent: Leucippus “And wishing to marry the daughters of Leucippus, they carried them off from Messene and wedded them; and Pollux had Mnesileus by Phoebe, and Castor had Anogon by Hilaira.”
• child: Mnesileus “Pollux had Mnesileus by Phoebe, and Castor had Anogon by Hilaira.”

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”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• courtship with Coeus “Again, Phoebe came to the desired embrace of Coeus.”
• child: Leto “Then the goddess through the love of the god conceived and brought forth dark-gowned Leto”

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