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- Dione – Mythopedia
Dione was an early goddess who was either a Titan or an Oceanid She was a lover of Zeus and, according to some traditions, gave birth to the love goddess Aphrodite
- Oceanids – Mythopedia
Dione was, in some traditions, a consort of Zeus and the mother of Aphrodite Doris was the wife of Nereus and the mother of the Nereids And Metis was an early ally and wife of Zeus Otherwise, the Oceanids were seen primarily as companions of other gods, such as Artemis or Persephone They were rarely worshipped on their own Etymology
- Homeric Hymns: 3. To Apollo (Full Text) - Mythopedia
And there were with her all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite and the other deathless goddesses save white-armed Hera, who sat in the halls of cloud-gathering Zeus
- Iliad: Book 5 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Dione then: “Thy wrongs with patience bear, And share those griefs inferior powers must share: Unnumber’d woes mankind from us sustain, And men with woes afflict the gods again
- Zeus – Mythopedia
Zeus was the powerful but flawed king of the Greek pantheon and the supreme god of the Greeks He ruled over men and gods alike from his throne on Mount Olympus
- Tantalus – Mythopedia
Tantalus was a king so beloved by the gods that they invited him to dine on Mount Olympus But he eventually offended the gods and was cast into the Underworld to suffer eternal punishment (Different sources give different versions of both the crime and the punishment )
- Aphrodite – Mythopedia
In one version, known from Homer’s epics, she was the daughter of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greeks, and the goddess Dione But the best-known account of Aphrodite’s birth comes from Hesiod’s Theogony According to this epic poem, Aphrodite emerged from the sea foam that bubbled up after Uranus ’ severed genitals were thrown into the sea
- Tethys – Mythopedia
Tethys was a Greek Titan associated with water and motherhood She had thousands of children with her husband Oceanus, some of whom went on to marry or give birth to gods themselves
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