Phoebe (Titaness)
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Phoebe was one of the Titans, the children of Uranus and Gaia. She is a goddess of intellect and prophecy. With her brother and husband Coeus she had two daugh
Phoebe fighting against the Giants with her daughter Asteria on the Gigantomachy Frieze from the Pergamon Altar, Berlin.
Phoebe gifts the oracular tripod to Apollo, engraving by John Flaxman.
Phoebe and Asteria fighting Giants on the Pergamon Altar.
Asteria
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In Greek mythology, Asteria or Asterie is a daughter of the Titans Phoebe and Coeus and the sister of Leto. According to Hesiod, by the Titan Perses she had a single child, a daughter named Hecate, th
Phoebe (Titaness)
…children of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). She is a goddess of intellect and prophecy. With her brother and husband Coeus she had two daughters, Leto and Asteria. She is thus the grandmother of Apollo, Artemis and Hecate. According to the myth, she was the original owner of the site of the Oracle of Delphi before…
Personification of Delos (right) with Artemis and Apollo, 450s BC Attic red-figure column krater in the National Museum of Archaeology
Asteria pursued by Zeus in the form of an eagle by Marco Liberi
Asteria and Phoebe on the Pergamon Altar, Berlin.
Zeus and Asteria in an 1707 engraving by Bernard Picart, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.