Phoebe’s Family Tree

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Family

• Gaia(parent),Uranus(parent),Coeus(sibling),Crius(sibling),Hyperion(sibling),Iapetus(sibling),Kronos(sibling),Mnemosyne(sibling),Oceanus(sibling),Rhea(sibling),Tethys(sibling),Theia(sibling),Themis(sibling)— Consort

  Gaia and Uranus produced the twelve elder Titans — Kronos, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Theia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe — who ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age before the Olympians overthrew them.

• Coeus(spouse),Asteria(child),Leto(child)— Marriage

  Coeus and Phoebe, both children of Gaia and Uranus, produced the Titanesses Leto and Asteria. Through Leto, Coeus became grandfather of Apollo and Artemis.

Member of

• Titans

  The elder gods who ruled during the Golden Age before being overthrown by the Olympians, including the twelve first-generation Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia and second-generation members Pallas and Perses.

Associated with

• Apollo

  In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Phoebe transferred the Oracle of Delphi to her grandson Apollo as a birthday gift. Apollo's epithet 'Phoebus' ('the bright one') derives directly from her name.

• Asteria

  Phoebe's daughter Asteria flung herself into the sea to escape Zeus's advances and transformed into the island of Delos, which later served as the birthplace of Phoebe's grandchildren Apollo and Artemis.

• Delphi

  In the Eumenides, Aeschylus recounts that Phoebe received the oracle at Delphi from Themis and gave it as a birthday gift to her grandson Apollo.

• Leto

  Through her daughter Leto, Phoebe became grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. Leto's divine parentage from the Titans Coeus and Phoebe was essential to establishing her children's status among the Olympians.

• Themis

  In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Themis held the Oracle of Delphi after Gaia and passed it to her sister Phoebe, who in turn gave it to Apollo. This succession legitimized Apollo's prophetic authority.