Perses

deity earth Greek single tradition · 5

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
parent of
Hecate
child of
Crius, Eurybia, Helios, Perse

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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