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Aether

deity sky Greek single tradition · 6

The personification of the upper air or bright sky in Greco-Roman mythology. According to Hyginus, Aether was the child of Caligo and Chaos.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
700 BCE
Attested period
-700 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Hyginus's first-century BC Fabulae.

Relationships

sibling of
Nox, Dies, Erebus, Chaos, Hemera
co occurs with
Hypnos, Chronus, Semele, Nyx, Protogonos, Achlys, Eros, Bacchus, Helios, Mercury, Gaia, Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, Hera, Athena, Persephone, Phanes, Kronos, Titans, Zagreus, Ouranos
parent of
Aergia, Dione, Terra, Uranus, Caelus, Mare
consort of
Terra, Hemera
child of
Caligo, Nyx, Erebus, Chaos, Caligio, Chronos

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Mentioned by

and 7 more

Sources

wikipedia (6)
  1. Achlys
  2. List of Greek deities
  3. Aergia
  4. Dione (Titaness)
  5. Hemera
  6. Orphism

Source passages

“with Chaos, was the mother of Night (Nox), Day (Dies), Darkness (Erebus) and Ether (Aether)”

#15293 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Of these primordial figures in Hesiod's poem, deities such as Nyx, Aether, and Eros feature in a number of other early cosmogonies.”

#26283 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Aergia was the daughter of the primordial deities Aether and Gaia.”

#27541 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The Genealogy or Preface of Gaius Julius Hyginus's Fabulae, lists Dione among the children of Terra (Earth) and Aether.”

#28118 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Chaos and Caligio (Mist) were the parents of Nox (Night), Dies, Erebus, and Aether. Cicero says that Aether and Dies were the parents of Caelus (Sky).”

#28445 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5