Hecate

Also known as: Crataeis · Family: divine · Role: goddess · First appears: Book III 2

Life events

• Argus reveals Medea’s magical skill and proposes seeking her aid against the contest.(Book III 4)
  • With: Argus son of Phrixus Jason Medea
  • “There is a maiden, nurtured in the halls of Aeetes, whom the goddess Hecate taught to handle magic herbs with exceeding skill”

Book III 2

• with Medea (Medea is Hecate’s priestess.) “But beforetime she was not wont to haunt the palace, but all day long was busied in Hecate’s temple, since she herself was the priestess of the goddess.”

Book III 4

• parent: Perses “Ere now thou hast heard me tell of a maiden that uses sorcery under the guidance of Hecate, Perses’ daughter.”
• pupil: Medea “There is a maiden, nurtured in the halls of Aeetes, whom the goddess Hecate taught to handle magic herbs with exceeding skill all that the land and flowing waters produce.”

Book III 8

• parent: Perses “And propitiate only-begotten Hecate, daughter of Perses, pouring from a goblet the hive-stored labour of bees.”

Book IV 7

• child: Scylla “night-wandering Hecate, who is called Crataeis, bare to Phoreys”

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