Perses
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1756 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in surviving sources.
Relationships
- consort of
- Asteria
- co occurs with
- Asterope, Medea, Aeëtes, Zeus, Cronus, Leto, Phoebe, Coeus, Minotaur, Helios, Perse, Chiron, Chariclo
- parent of
- Hecate
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Before Cronus was dethroned and cast down by his six children, Asteria married Perses, one of her first cousins, and gave birth to their only child, a daughter named Hecate.”
#27808 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Her brothers were Aeëtes, keeper of the Golden Fleece and father of Medea, and Perses.”
#27923 · 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.”
#36681 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“According to Timothy Gantz, Hesiod "oddly" describes Perses as "eminent among all men in wisdom." He was wed to his cousin Asteria, the daughter of Phoebe and Coeus, with whom he had one child, Hecate,”
#44789 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free