Pontus (mythology)
Pontos (Museum of Constanța )
Pontus ( Greek Πόντος , the sea ) was an ancient sea deity in Greek mythology , the son of Gaia .
Pontus is counted among the Protogonoi , the first born. This makes him a pre-Olympic god. According to Hesiod , Gaia, the earth, gave birth to him “without fertile love”. According to other sources, he was the son of Gaia and Aether . With Gaia he begat Nereus , Thaumas , Phorkys , Keto and Eurybia and the Telchines . With Thalassa he became the father of fish. In addition, his granddaughter was Amphitrite , the wife of Poseidon .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Pontos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2758 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Pontos in Project Theoi (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 132
- ↑ a b Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae Introduction
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 233-239
- ↑ Bakchylides , fragment 52