Zeus and the Titaness Themis produced the Horae — Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and Eirene (Peace) — and the Moirai, according to Hesiod's Theogony.
⚠ Hesiod gives two conflicting genealogies: Theogony 901-906 names Zeus and Themis as parents, while Theogony 217 makes the Moirai daughters of Nyx alone.
The Erotes and the Horae both attend Aphrodite in Hellenistic art. In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the Horae dress the goddess upon her arrival, while the Erotes accompany her as agents of desire.
In Pindar's Pythian 9, Gaia and the Horae received the infant Aristaeus and nurtured him with nectar and ambrosia, granting him immortality after his birth in Libya.
The Horae guard the cloud-gates of Mount Olympus, opening and closing them for the gods' passage. In the Iliad, they part the clouds with a sound like thunder when a deity ascends or descends.
The three Horae named by Hesiod in the Theogony were Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and Eirene (Peace), daughters of Zeus and Themis who personified the social order.
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the Horae dressed and adorned the goddess upon her arrival from the sea, clothing her in divine garments and crowning her with gold, preparing her to take her place among the Olympians.
The Horae tended the flower garden of Chloris, watering and arranging the blossoms that the nymph scattered over the earth. In Ovid's Fasti, Chloris describes her garden as maintained by the Seasons.
In Hesiod's Works and Days, the Horae crowned Pandora with garlands of spring flowers as part of the gods' adornment of the first woman before she was sent to Epimetheus bearing her jar of sorrows.
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