Hesione (Oceanid)

Summary

In Greek mythology, Hesione (/hɪˈs.ən/; Ancient Greek: Ἡσιόνη) was the daughter of Titan Oceanus probably by his sister-wife Tethys, and thus counted among the Oceanids.[1] She was the wife of her cousin Prometheus and the mother of Deucalion.[2] That she was a daughter of Oceanus and wife of Prometheus, was also repeated in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound.[3]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 178. ISBN 9780786471119.
  2. ^ Acusilaus, fr. 34 Fowler (Fowler 2000, p. 22; Fowler 2013, p. 113; Freeman, p. 17 fragment 33).
  3. ^ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 552–560.

References edit

  • Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. Vol 2. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404.
  • Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0198147411.
  • Freeman, Kathleen, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker, Harvard University Press, 1983. ISBN 9780674035010.