Themis
Themis is a goddess who receives the newborn Zeus from his mother Rhea and then hands him over to the nymph Amalthea for rearing. She plays an intermediary role in protecting the infant god from danger.
↻ synthesized from 12 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in the account from the 4th century BC Eumolpia as recounted by Pseudo-Eratosthenes.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Nemea, Selene, Ersa, Adrasteia, Pandia, Endymion, Narcissus, Musaeus, Eumolpus, Cybele, Iris, Dione, Ichnaea, Dike, Dyssebeia, Eusebeia, Nomos, Plátaia, Erichthonius, Pandora, Chthonie, Ourea, Auxo, Thallo, Carpo, Keres, Phobos, Deimos, Momu, Paris, Éris, Calchas, Ida, Leto, Eirene, Eunomia, Muses, Mnemosyne, Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Thalia, Brontes, Helios, Neda, Apollo, Hera, Amphitrite, Eileithyia, Hades, Persephone, Pontus, Artemis (Diana), Mars, Enyo, Theseus, Hermes, Aphrodite, Prometheus, Hephaestus, Achilles, Thetis, Moirai, Cronus, Kouretes, Athena, Artemis, Demeter, Eurynome, Metis
- serves
- Zeus
- consort of
- Zeus
- syncretized with
- Rehtia
Mentioned by
- Helios
- Neda
- Apollo
- Hera
- Amphitrite
- Eileithyia
- Hades
- Persephone
- Pontus
- Artemis (Diana)
- Mars
- Enyo
- Theseus
- Hermes
- Aphrodite
- Prometheus
and 15 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Zeus's mother Rhea gives him as a newborn to the goddess Themis; he is then handed over to the nymph Amalthea”
#8959 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“A red-figure skyphos, now at Tübingen University, of c. 440–430, seems to commemorate the arrival of the newly authorized cult: it shows Themis (representing traditional Athenian customs) and a booted and cloaked Bendis, who wears a Thracian fox-skin cap.”
#18579 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“According to a speech that Aeschylus puts into the mouth of the Delphic priestess herself in The Eumenides, Phoebe received control of the Oracle at Delphi from her sister Themis, who herself had received it from their mother Gaia, and then passed it on Apollo, her grandson, as a gift for his birthday”
#18926 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“in most other accounts their number is three; Eirene ("peace"), Eunomia ("order"), and Dike ("justice"), and their parents are Zeus and Themis instead.”
#19027 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“After having arrived at Delos, she labored for nine nights and nine days, in the presence of Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and Amphitrite. As soon as Eileithyia arrived, Apollo was finally allowed to be born, and was given ambrosia and nectar by Themis, rather than breastmilk.”
#22714 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001