Capheira

A daughter of Oceanus who resided on the island of Rhodes. Poseidon was entrusted to her and the Telchines by Rhea, and they conjointly brought him up.

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References

Sources

  • Diodorus Siculus, iv, 55 ff.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 19.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography xiv, p. 653.