Phorcydes

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In Greek mythology, the Phorcydes (Ancient Greek: Φόρκιδες, Phorcides[1]), occasionally rendered Phorcyades in modern texts, were the children of Phorcys and Ceto.

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons (Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa), The Graeae (Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios ("Hesperian Dragon", or dragon of the Hesperides). These children tend to be consistent across sources, though Ladon is sometimes cited as a child of Echidna (by Typhon) and therefore Phorcys and Ceto's grandson.

The author of the Bibliotheca and Homer refer to Scylla as the daughter of Crataeis, with Pseudo-Apollodorus specifying her father as Trienus (or Triton?) or Phorcus, an alternate spelling of Phorcys. Apollonius cites Scylla as the daughter of Phorcys and a conflated Crataeis-Hekate.

The Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius cites Phorcys and Ceto as the parents of The Hesperides, but this assertion is not repeated in other ancient sources.

Homer refers to Thoosa, the mother of Polyphemus, as a daughter of Phorcys, but does not indicate whether Ceto is her mother.

Notes

  1. The form Phorcyds comes from modern dictionaries such as Wilhelm Vollmer's Wörterbuch der Mythologie (1874) (p. 380).

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