Phoebe

"Bright." A daughter of Uranus and Gaea, became by Coeus the mother of Asteria and Leto. According to Aeschylus1 she was in possession of the Delphic oracle after Themis, and prior to Apollo.

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References

Notes

  1. Eumenides, 6.

Sources

  • Hesiod. Theogony, 136, 404 ff.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 1.3, 2.2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.