Tethys
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 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.
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,
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.
Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.
Iliad
Goddess who, with Okeanos, raised Hera and is the other false destination of her journey.
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;
I am going to the world's end to visit Okeanos (from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys: