Theia

A daughter of Uranus and Gaea, one of the female Titans, became by Hyperion the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she was regarded as the deity from which all light proceeded.

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References

Sources

  • Catullus, 66.44.
  • Hesiod. Theogony, 135, 371.
  • Pindar. Isthmian Odes v, 1.
  • 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.