Perses- Greek TitanTitan

Son of Crius and Eurybia

Perses was a second-generation Titan, one of three sons born to Crius and the sea goddess Eurybia, herself a daughter of Pontus and Gaia who embodied the mastering force of the sea. His brothers were Astraeus, who married Eos and fathered the winds and stars, and Pallas, father of Nike and Kratos by Styx. His name connects to the Greek perthein — "to destroy" or "to sack" — though no myth tells of the destroyer destroying anything.

Father of Hecate

Perses married the Titaness Asteria, daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. Asteria had her own story: when Zeus pursued her, she transformed into a quail and threw herself into the sea, becoming the floating island of Ortygia — "Quail Island" — which drifted anchorless until Leto, Asteria's sister, came there to give birth to Apollo and Artemis. Only then did the island root itself to the seabed and take the name Delos. From the union of the destroyer and the Titaness-turned-island came their only child — Hecate.

In the Theogony, Hesiod describes the honours Zeus granted her: victory in battle, abundance at sea, and power to nurture or destroy the young of every creature. She received a share of honour among earth, sea, and starry sky — not as a gift from Zeus but as a right she held from the beginning, which the new king of gods chose to honour rather than diminish. Alone among the children of Titans, Hecate retained her full prerogatives after the Olympians' victory.

No source names Perses among the Titanomachy's combatants. While other Titans were cast into Tartarus — Cronus and his brothers locked beneath the earth with hundred-handed guards at the gates — no tradition records Perses's punishment or his resistance. His daughter emerged from the war more honoured than before; his own fate went unrecorded.