Iris

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Iris) · The Aeneid (as Iris) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Iris)

Life events

• Thaumas married Electra, who bore Iris, Aello, and Ocypetes.(Hesiod, Theogony 139-265)
  • With: Thaumas Electra Aello Ocypetes
  • “And Thaumas wedded Electra the daughter of deep-flowing Ocean, and she bare him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Aello (Storm-swift) and Ocypetes (Swift-flier) who on their swift wings keep pace with the blasts of the winds and the birds; for quick as time they dart along.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.2

• parent: Thaumas “to Thaumas and Electra were born Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete”
• parent: Electra “to Thaumas and Electra were born Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete”

Hesiod, Theogony 713-820

• with Zeus (Zeus sends Iris as a messenger.) “Then Zeus sends Iris to bring in a golden jug the great oath of the gods from far away, the famous cold water which trickles down from a high and beetling rock.”

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