Perses (Titan)

Perses ( ancient Greek Πέρσης Pérsēs ) is a titan and god of destruction in Greek mythology .

He is a son of the titan Kreios and Eurybia , his siblings are Astraios and Pallas . With the Titanid Asteria he fathered the goddess Hecate . In Dionysius of Miletus there is a connection between the titan Perses and Perses , the son of Helios , in that he names the son of Helios as the father of Hecate.

The Homeric hymn to Demeter "Persaios" and Lycophrons Alexandra "Perseus" are attested as different forms of the name .

literature

• Ernst Kuhnert : Perses 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 1985 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Perses in the Theoi Project

Remarks

1. ↑ Hesiod , Theogony 375 ff.
2. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 2, 6.
3. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 409 ff.
4. ↑ Dionysius of Miletus in the Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodos Argonautica 3, 200.
5. ↑ Hymn to Demeter 24.
6. ↑ Lykophrons, Alexandra 1175.