Perse
Perse is a goddess identified as the daughter of Oceanus in Greek mythology. She has been speculatively identified with the reconstructed Mycenaean goddess *Preswa and potentially connected to the first element of Persephone's name.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 1400 BCE
- Attested period
- -1400 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Reconstructed from Linear B Mycenaean Greek inscription at Pylos dated 1400-1200 BC by John Chadwick.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Persephone
- co occurs with
- Crete, Ariadne, Minos, Deucalion, Europa, Asterius, Acacallis, Androgeus, Phaedra, Xenodice, Catreus, Oenopion, Staphylus, Thoas, Peparethus, Eurymedon, Phliasus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramys, Tauropolis, Asterope, Medea, Aeëtes, Perses, Asteria, Premtë, Demeter, Zeus, Dionysus, Minotaur, Glaucus, Scylla, Oceanus, Hecate, Chiron, Chariclo
- consort of
- Helios
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“John Chadwick reconstructed the name of a goddess, *Preswa, who could be identified with Perse, daughter of Oceanus”
#13000 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Pasiphaë was the daughter of god of the Sun, Helios, and the Oceanid Perse.”
#16036 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“daughter of Helios and Perse”
#27689 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“she was the daughter of the sun god Helios and Perse, one of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs...Ovid's The Cure for Love implies that Circe might have been taught the knowledge of herbs and potions from her mother Perse”
#27919 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Perse was one of the wives of the sun god, Helios. 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.”
#36676 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001