Tethys
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
lovely Tethys · mother Tethys · queenly Tethys
in the texts
Theogony
Titan goddess, daughter of Earth and Heaven, who unites with Oceanus and bears the rivers and thousands of Oceanid daughters.
Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.
And as many other rivers are there, babbling as they flow, sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bare, but their names it is hard for a mortal man to tell, but people know those by which they severally dwell.
And Tethys bore to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Aesepus, and holy Simois, and Peneus, and Hermus, and Caicus ' fair stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius,
Iliad
Goddess who, with Okeanos, raised Hera and is the other false destination of her journey.
I am going to the world's end to visit Okeanos (from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys:
Then Hera told him a lying tale and said, "I am going to the world's end, to visit Okeanos, from whom all we gods proceed, and mother Tethys;
Cratylus
Wife of Ocean whose name Socrates derives from words meaning strained and filtered, evoking a spring.
but I do not know what the name of Tethys means.
Just so Homer, too, says— Ocean the origin of the gods, and their mother Tethys;
for that which is strained (διαττώμενον) and filtered (ἠθούμενον) represents a spring, and the name Tethys is compounded of those two words.
Theaetetus
Primordial goddess named by Homer as the mother of the gods, cited alongside Oceanus as evidence for the flux doctrine.
And on this subject all the philosophers, except Parmenides, may be marshalled in one line—Protagoras and Heracleitus and Empedocles—and the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry, Epicharmus, in comedy, and in tragedy, Homer, who, in the line 0ceanus the origin of the gods, and Tethys their mother, has said that all things are the offspring of flow and motion;