Deity Greek and Roman
Iris
Ἶρις , Īris grc
The personification of the rainbow in ancient Greek religion and mythology
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Iris
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 · 5
Kinship in an account 5
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
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Electra one of the Oceanids; daughter of Oceanus and Tethys -
child of (child) Thaumas sea god of Greek mythology -
parent of (mother) Eros Greek god of love and sex -
parent of (mother) Pothos Greek divinity, desire/yearning personified -
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partner of (spouse) Zephyrus Greek god of the wind from the west, spring, fertility, procreation, luck, rebirth, vegetation, flowers, bees and honey
Accounts
Where Iris appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
The earliest account held here Computed
Iliad written 8th century BCE
A date for the text, never for the deity.Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
6 statements on this record
- 4 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 2 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.
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- Pictures
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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