Rhea

Also known as: mother of Dindymum · Family: Titan gods · Role: ruler · First appears: Book I 4

Life events

Ophion and Eurynome surrender sovereignty of Olympus to Cronos and Rhea.(Book I 4 · 📍 Olympus)
- With: Ophion Eurynome Cronos
- “how first of all Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, held the sway of snowy Olympus, and how through strength of arm one yielded his prerogative to Cronos and the other to Rhea, and how they fell into the waves of Ocean”
Rhea responds to the sacrifices with favorable signs and causes a spring to gush from Dindymum.(Book I 9 · 📍 Dindymum)
- “And the gracious goddess, I ween, inclined her heart to pious sacrifices; and favourable signs appeared. The trees shed abundant fruit, and round their feet the earth of its own accord put forth flowers from the tender grass. And the beasts of the wild wood left their lairs and thickets and came up fawning on them with their tails. And she caused yet another marvel; for hitherto there was no flow of water on Dindymum, but then for them an unceasing stream gushed forth from the thirsty peak just as it was”
Cronos deceives Rhea, and Rhea discovers him with Philyra.(Book II 10)
- With: Cronos Philyra
- “Cronos, son of Uranus, what time in Olympus he reigned over the Titans, and Zeus was yet being nurtured in a Cretan cave by the Curetes of Ida, lay beside Philyra, when he had deceived Rhea; and the goddess found them in the midst of their dalliance;”

with Eurynome (interaction) “and the other to Rhea”
with Cronos (Cronos and Rhea jointly ruled the Titan-gods.) “but the other two meanwhile ruled over the blessed Titan-gods”

protégé: Jason “Hence from that time forward the Phrygians propitiate Rhea with the wheel and the drum. And the gracious goddess, I ween, inclined her heart to pious sacrifices; and favourable signs appeared. The trees shed abundant fruit, and round their feet the earth of its own accord put forth flowers from the tender grass. And the beasts of the wild wood left their lairs and thickets and came up fawning on them with their tails. And she caused yet another marvel; for hitherto there was no flow of water on Dindymum, but then for them an unceasing stream gushed forth from the thirsty peak just as it was, and the dwellers around in after times called that stream, the spring of Jason.”
with Titias (Titias is named as an assessor of the Idaean mother, Rhea.) “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother”
with Cyllenus (Cyllenus is named as an assessor of the Idaean mother, Rhea.) “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother”

with Cronos (interaction) “and Zeus was yet being nurtured in a Cretan cave by the Curetes of Ida, lay beside Philyra, when he had deceived Rhea; and the goddess found them in the midst of their dalliance;”

Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.