Ceto
Ceto is a primordial sea goddess in Greek mythology, the daughter of Pontus and Gaia. She bore a host of monstrous children fathered by Phorcys, another child of Gaia and Pontus. Ceto was also called Crataeis and Trienus, and was occasionally conflated by scholars with the goddess Hecate.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Ancient Greek texts.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Callirhoe, Styx, Peiras, Tartarus, Phanes, Derceto, Delphyne, drakaina, Sybaris, Pemphredo, Enyo, Pontus, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, Cottus, Briareos, Gyges, Pandora, Actaeon, Orion, Chrysaor, Scylla, Lamia, Python, Campe, Gaia, Aphrodite, giant, Erinyes, Uranus, Cronus, Meliae, Heracles
- syncretized with
- Hecate
- parent of
- Pemphredo, Sthenno, Euryale, Ladon, Echidna, Dino, Persis, Hesperides, Deinos, Enyo, Gorgons, Graeae, Medusa, Stheno
- consort of
- Phorcys
- creator of
- Nemean lion, sphinxes
Mentioned by
- Chrysaor
- Scylla
- Lamia
- Python
- Campe
- Gaia
- Aphrodite
- giant
- Erinyes
- Uranus
- Cronus
- Meliae
- Heracles
- Nemean lion
- sphinxes
- Pontus
and 1 more
Sources
Source passages
“Pliny the Elder mentions worship of "storied Ceto" at Joppa (now Jaffa), in a single reference, immediately after his mention of Andromeda, whom Perseus rescued from a sea-monster.”
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“Lamia, Campe, Echidna, and many representations of Ceto, Scylla, and Delphyne had the head and torso of a woman.”
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“According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which would make Medusa's offspring Chrysaor the father of Echidna.”
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“They were the daughters of the primordial sea gods Phorcys and Ceto and sisters of, among others, the Gorgons.”
#28343 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“By her son, Pontus, Gaia bore the sea-deities Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia.”
#28402 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001