Deity Greek and Roman
Briareus
One of the Hundred-Handers
- Child of Aegaeon, Uranus and Gaia
- Consort of Cymopoleia
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Family
The family of Briareus
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 9
Kinship in an account 9
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Aegaeon deity or giant from Greek mythology
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child of (child) Gaia Greek primordial deity, the personification of the Earth -
child of (child) Uranus primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities - parent of (father) Aetna Sicilian nymph, connected to Mount Etna
- parent of (child) Oeolyce daughter of Briareus in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Sikanos mythological king of Sicily, son of Briareos
- partner of (spouse) Cymopoleia daughter of Poseidon
- sibling of Cottus one of the Hundred-Handers
- sibling of Gyges one of the Hundred-Handers, or hekatonkheires
Later works
Later works that name Briareus
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not accounts of it.
What this means
Sorted out of the accounts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the accounts. None of these supplies the earliest account.
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Connections
How Briareus connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
11 statements on this record
- 11 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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