Perses
The Destroyer · The All-Excellent · Father of Hecate
Perses in Greek tradition
Hecate was Perses’ daughter. Perses was the son of Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Astraeus and Pallas. He was also the husband of Asteria.
Perses belonged to this family line as an ancestral figure. His family connections joined him to Hecate through his marriage to Asteria. His place in the myth rested on his parentage, his marriage, and his descent.
The quick answers
Who is Perses?
Perses is a Greek being associated with destruction.Source
Source
- Dictionary of Mythology
- Greek Mythology and Poetics
What is Perses associated with?
destructionSource
Source
- Dictionary of Mythology
What family links are recorded for Perses?
Father: Kreios, Mother: Eurybia, Spouse: Asteria, 2 children, 4 siblings.
Perses’s family, at a glance
Parents above, children below, and the figure’s consorts named in between, the same family data as the fact box, laid out as a chart instead of a field list.
The names Perses answers to
The Destroyer
A conventional rendering of Perses's name, associated with destruction
SourceDictionary of Mythology
The All-Excellent
A translation of Hesiod's description of Perses as preeminent in all things
SourceGreek Mythology and Poetics
Father of Hecate
Perses is Hecate's father in Hesiod's genealogy
SourceGreek Mythology and Poetics
Perses, and where the myths place it
Appears in
The myths across MythSource where Perses features, each on that figure’s page.
- Coeus and Phoebe’s Union · on Coeus
- Gaia and Pontus · on Gaia
- Hecate, Aeetes, and the Witch-Born Children · on Hecate
- The Birth and Lineage of Hecate · on Hecate
- The Birth of Phoebe · on Phoebe
1 work catalogued
This is the candidate catalogue for Perses: candidate reworks first, then references, then names used as atmosphere. Nothing here has been checked against a source yet. Only reviewed myth-to-work links are promoted in Overview.
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Television1
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These are catalogue candidates, not proof that every work retells this figure. Reviewed myth-to-work links appear in Overview.
What this page is built from
About this page
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2 sources are cited on this page, primary texts and corpus scholarship, listed below.
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MythSource. (n.d.). Perses. https://www.mythsource.com/figures/perses
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"Perses." MythSource. n.d. https://www.mythsource.com/figures/perses.
The mythology summaries and identity fields on this page are grounded in the primary texts and scholarship above. The appearance table records candidates separately; only reviewed joins are presented as modern reworks in Overview.
The film
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