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Styx

deity underworld Greek single tradition · 8

Styx is an Oceanid and goddess of the river Styx. She is described as the mother of Echidna, with Peiras as the father.

↻ synthesized from 8 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Referenced by Epimenides (7th or 6th century BC).

Relationships

co occurs with
Tartarus, Phanes, Nereids, Callirrhoe, Calypso, Iris, Leto, Jove, Hypnos, Lugala'abba, Eros, Doris, Electra, Metis, Eurynome (Queen of the Titans), Tethys, Clymene, Idyia, Perseis, Pallas, Nike, Zelus, Kratos, Chrysaor, Phorcys, Ceto, Gaia, Scylla, Charybdis, Medusa, harpies, sphinxes, Stheno, Euryale, Sirens, Amphitrite, Lamia, Apollo, Hermes, Sol, Helios, Hera, Cronus, Phaethon, Poseidon, Demeter, Aphrodite, Callirhoe, Oceanid
consort of
Peiras, Pallas, Perias
allied with
Zeus, Acheron
parent of
Echidna, Persephone, Bia, Nike, Zelus, Kratos, Zelos
serves
Zeus
created by
Artemis (Diana)
child of
Tethys, Oceanus, Nox, Erebus
has aspect
Cocytus

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Mentioned by

and 17 more

Sources

wikipedia (8)
  1. Echidna (mythology)
  2. List of female monsters in literature
  3. Bia (mythology)
  4. Styx
  5. Lugala'abba
  6. Rhodopis and Euthynicus
  7. Oceanids
  8. Zelus

Source passages

“According to the geographer Pausanias (2nd century AD), Epimenides (7th or 6th century BC) had Echidna as the daughter of the Oceanid Styx (goddess of the river Styx) and one Peiras (otherwise unknown to Pausanias), while according to the mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD), Echidna was the daughter of Tartarus and Gaia.”

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“Styx, an oceanid and wife of Pallas”

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“Bia was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and Oceanid Styx, and sister of Nike, Kratos, and Zelus.”

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“Styx, along with the underworld rivers Cocytus and Acheron, were associated with waterways in the upper world...the water of the Styx in Arcadia...an angry Demeter had turned the Styx's water black.”

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“Lambert pointed out making a connection between sea and death is not uncommon in Mesopotamian literature, for example the Epic of Gilgamesh uses the phrases "waters of death" and "ocean," a-ab-ba, interchangeably, and noted a similar association is also present in the Ugaritic texts, in the Old Testament, and in Hesiod's Theogony, where the personified Styx is a daughter of Oceanus.”

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