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Pasiphaë

deity earth Greek single tradition · 8

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #406 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 8 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Greek mythology.

Relationships

co occurs with
Poseidon, Perse, Crete, Europa, Asterius, Oenopion, Staphylus, Thoas, Peparethus, Eurymedon, Phliasus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramys, Tauropolis, Asterope, Medea, Circe, Perses, Aeëtes, Eos, Ariadne, bull-god, Theseus, Asterion, Minos, Ariane, Daedalus, Icarus, Cretan Bull, Zeus, Helios, Dionysus, Hecate, Artemis (Diana)
parent of
Minotaur, Asterion, Amun, Ariadne, Acacallis, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Xenodice, Catreus, monster in the Labyrinth
consort of
Minos
sibling of
Circe, Calypso, Aeëtes, Perses, Aloeus
child of
Crete, Helios, Perse

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (8)
  1. List of Greek mythological creatures
  2. Pasiphaë
  3. Ariadne
  4. Circe
  5. Perse (mythology)
  6. Procris
  7. Ariadne (poem)
  8. Icarus (2022 film)

Source passages

“While Pasiphaë is an immortal goddess in some texts, other authors treated her as a mortal woman, like Euripides who in his play Cretans has Minos sentence her to death (her eventual fate is unclear, as no relevant fragment survives). In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas sees her when he visits the Underworld”

#16051 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“and of Pasiphaë, Minos's queen and daughter of Helios and Perse...Through her mother, Pasiphaë, she was also the half-sister of the Minotaur”

#27687 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.”

#27924 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“According to Homer and Hesiod, with Helios she had Circe and Aeëtes, with later authors also mentioning their children Pasiphaë, Perses, Aloeus, and even Calypso, who is however more commonly the daughter of Atlas. She seems to have been linked to witchcraft and knowledge of herbs and potions, much like her daughters Circe and Pasiphaë.”

#36680 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“King Minos, who had been cursed by his wife Pasiphaë to ejaculate scorpions, serpents and centipedes that killed his mistresses from the inside. Procris was said to have helped cure the king of his genital sickness with a circean herb. ”

#43433 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001