Coeus

Family: Titans · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

Life events

• Earth and Heaven produce the first generation of Titans.(Hesiod, Theogony 1-116)
  • With: Earth Heaven Oceanus Crius Hyperion Iapetus Theia Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Phoebe 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”

Hesiod, Theogony 1-116

• parent: Heaven “But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• courtship with Phoebe “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”
• child: Asteria “Also she bare Asteria of happy name”

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