Phorcys

Also known as: Phorcus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

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

Phorcys, also known as Phorcus, was born to Pontus and Earth, alongside Thaumas, Nereus, Eurybia, and Ceto. He was joined to Ceto, and together they had the Phorcides and Gorgons—among them Enyo, Pephredo, Dino, Pemphredo, Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa. “And Ceto was joined in love to Phorcys and bare her youngest.”

In another account, Phorcys was a son of Aretaon, alongside Ascanius. Scylla is also named as a daughter of Crataeis and Trienus or Phorcus.

Relationship record

parent: Pontus “to Sea ( Pontus) and Earth were born Phorcus, Thaumas, Nereus, Eurybia, and Ceto”
parent: Earth “to Sea ( Pontus) and Earth were born Phorcus, Thaumas, Nereus, Eurybia, and Ceto”
child: Ceto “to Phorcus and Ceto were born the Phorcides and Gorgons”
with Ceto (The passage names Phorcus and Ceto as parents of unnamed groups, not of each other.) “to Phorcus and Ceto were born the Phorcides and Gorgons”

child: Enyo “for Phorcus had them by Ceto, and they were sisters of the Gorgons”
child: Pephredo “for Phorcus had them by Ceto, and they were sisters of the Gorgons”
child: Dino “for Phorcus had them by Ceto, and they were sisters of the Gorgons”
married with Ceto “for Phorcus had them by Ceto”

with Ceto (interaction) “And again, Ceto bare to Phorcys the fair-cheeked Graiae, sisters grey from their birth”
with Medusa (interaction) “and the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious Ocean in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear-voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered a woeful fate”
child: Pemphredo “And again, Ceto bare to Phorcys the fair-cheeked Graiae, sisters grey from their birth: and both deathless gods and men who walk on earth call them Graiae, Pemphredo well-clad, and saffron-robed Enyo”
child: Sthenno “the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious Ocean in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear-voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered a woeful fate”
child: Euryale “the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious Ocean in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear-voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered a woeful fate”
child: Medusa “the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious Ocean in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear-voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered a woeful fate”

courtship with Ceto “And Ceto was joined in love to Phorcys and bare her youngest”
parent: Ceto “This is the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys.”
child: Ceto “This is the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys.”

child: Scylla (parent->child; Phorcus is mapped to roster canonical Phorcys.) “Scylla, a daughter of Crataeis and Trienus or Phorcus”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.