Bronte
animal_ally sky Greek single tradition · 2
Bronte is one of the female yoke-bearers that pull Helios's chariot. According to Eumelus of Corinth, Bronte means "Thunder".
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 200
- Historical notes
- Mentioned by Eumelus of Corinth, late 7th/ early 6th century BC.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Sterope, Abraxas, Therbeeo, Zeus Keraunos, Zeus Astrapeus, Pyrois, Eous, Aethon, Phlegon, Aethiops, Helios
- sibling of
- Astrape
- serves
- Zeus
- allied with
- Astrape
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“the sky is turned) and Aethiops (as if flaming, parches the grain) and the female yoke-bearers are Bronte ("Thunder") and Sterope”
#16718 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Castro, María Cruz Fernández, "Bronte", in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). III.1: Atherion – Eros”
#27766 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5