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Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares,¹ but he had intercourse with many women, both mortals and immortals. By Themis, daughter of Sky, he had daughters, the Seasons, to wit, Peace, Order, and Justice; also the Fates, to wit, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropus;² by Dione he had Aphrodite;³ by Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, he had the Graces, to wit, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia;⁴ by Styx he had Persephone;⁵ and by Memory ( Mnemosyne) he had the Muses, first Calliope, then Clio, Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsichore, Urania, Thalia, and Polymnia.⁶

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[1] Ζεὺς δὲ γαμεῖ μὲν Ἥραν, καὶ τεκνοῖ Ἥβην Εἰλείθυιαν Ἄρην, μίγνυται δὲ πολλαῖς θνηταῖς τε καὶ ἀθανάτοις γυναιξίν. ἐκ μὲν οὖν Θέμιδος τῆς Οὐρανοῦ γεννᾷ θυγατέρας ὥρας. Εἰρήνην Εὐνομίαν Δίκην, μοίρας, Κλωθὼ Λάχεσιν Ἄτροπον, ἐκ Διώνης δὲ Ἀφροδίτην, ἐξ Εὐρυνόμης δὲ τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ χάριτας, Ἀγλαΐην Εὐφροσύνην Θάλειαν, ἐκ δὲ Στυγὸς Περσεφόνην, ἐκ δὲ Μνημοσύνης μούσας, πρώτην μὲν Καλλιόπην, εἶτα Κλειὼ Μελπομένην Εὐτέρπην Ἐρατὼ Τερψιχόρην Οὐρανίαν Θάλειαν Πολυμνίαν.

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1. As to the offspring of Zeus and Hera, see Hom. Il. 5.889ff. (Ares), Hom. Il. 11.270ff. (Ilithyia), Hom. Od. 11.603ff. (Hebe); Hes. Th. 921ff. According to Hesiod, Hera was the last consort whom Zeus took to himself; his first wife was Metis, and his second Themis ( Hes. Th. 886 ; Hes. Th. 901 ; Hes. Th. 921 ).

2. For the daughters of Zeus and Themis, see Hes. Th. 901ff.

3. As to Dione, mother of Aphrodite, see Hom. Il. 5.370ff. ; Eur. Hel. 1098 ; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte . Hesiod represents Aphrodite as born of the sea-foam which gathered round the severed genitals of Sky (Uranus). See Hes. Th. 188ff.

4. As to the parentage of the Graces, see Hes. Th. 907ff. ; Paus. 9.35.5 ; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte .

5. According to the usual account, the mother of Persephone was not Styx but Demeter. See Hes. Th. 912ff. ; HH Dem. 1ff. ; Paus. 8.37.9 ; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte .

6. As to the names and parentage of the Muses, see Hes. Th. 915ff.

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