Perses (son of Crius)

His name is derived from the Ancient Greek word perthō ({{lang|grc|πέρθω}} – "to sack", "to ravage", "to destroy").

According to the Theogony, Perses was born to Crius, one of the original twelve Titans, and Eurybia.{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | publisher = Brill Reference Online | url = https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/NPOE/e915170.xml | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e915170 | last = Thurmann | first = Stephanie | location = Kiel | title = Perses | date = October 1, 2006 | editor-first1 = Hubert | issn = 1574-9347 | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider | access-date = December 27, 2024}} He had two brothers, Astraeus and Pallas.Hesiod, Theogony, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371 375].Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D8 1.8].

According to Timothy Gantz, Hesiod "oddly" describes Perses as "eminent among all men in wisdom."{{sfn|Gantz|1993|page=[https://archive.org/details/earlygreekmythgu0001gant/page/26/mode/2up?view=theater 26]}} He was wed to his cousin Asteria, the daughter of Phoebe and Coeus,Hesiod, Theogony, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D404 404]. with whom he had one child, Hecate, honoured by the king of the gods Zeus above all others as the goddess of magic, crossroads, and witchcraft.{{sfn|Gantz|1993|page=[https://archive.org/details/earlygreekmythgu0001gant/page/26/mode/2up?view=theater 26]}} In a lesser-known tradition mentioned by Musaeus, the father of Hecate was Zeus himself;Musaeus as cited by a scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica [https://books.google.com/books?id=y5pxAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA72 3.467] Zeus kept Asteria as his mistress for some time before giving her to Perses.{{sfn|Fowler|2000|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 32–33]}}{{sfn|Diels|1907|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9_ZMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA487 487]}}

He was sometimes confused with another Perses (the son of the sun-god Helios and the nymph Perse), who was made the father of Hecate in some versions.Diodorus Siculus, Historic Library [https://topostext.org/work/133#4.45.1 4.45.2]{{sfn|Avery|1962|page=[https://archive.org/details/newcenturyclassi00aver/page/852/mode/2up?view=theater 853]}} He might also be the same Perses who is the father of Chariclo, the wife of Chiron, in some versions.Scholia on Pindar [https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5034.tlg001b.perseus-grc1:4.182 P.4.82]

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• Athena
• Perses of Colchis
• Ares

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• {{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/newcenturyclassi00aver/page/278/mode/2up | title = New Century Classical Handbook | editor-first = Catherine B. | editor-last = Avery |publisher = Appleton-Century-Crofts | location = New York, US | year = 1962}}
• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
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• Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59-8, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 340. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1939. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99375-4}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL340/1939/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press]. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version by Bill Thayer].
• {{cite book | title = Early Greek Mythography | volume = 2: Commentary | first = Robert L. | last = Fowler | author-link = Robert Fowler (academic) | isbn = 978-0-19-814741-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford, UK | date = 2000}}
• {{cite book | author-link = Timothy Gantz | last = Gantz | first = Timothy | title = Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press | date = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-8018-5360-9 | volume = 1 | url = https://archive.org/details/earlygreekmythgu0001gant/}}
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129 Greek text available from the same website].

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