Ops, Rhea. Rhea is a character in Greek mythology, the Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus as well as sister and wife to Cronus.
In early traditions, she is known as the mother of gods and therefore is strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele, who have similar functions. The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right.
The Romans identified her with Magna Mater, and the Goddess Ops. Some ancient etymologists derived Rhea from, ground; the same suggest also modern scholars, although a tradition embodied in Plato and in Chrysippus connected the word with, flow, discharge, which is what LSJ supports.
Alternatively, the name Rhea may be connected with words for the pomegranate, later. The name Rhea may ultimately derive from a pre-Greek or Minoan source.
Graves suggested that Rhea's name is probably a variant of Era, earth. According to Hesiod, Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus in that order. The philosopher Plato recounts that Rhea, Cronus and Phorcys were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys. Gaia and Uranus told Cronus that just as he had overthrown his own father, he was destined to be overcome by his own child; so as each of his children was born, Cronus swallowed them. Rhea, Uranus and Gaia devised a plan to save the last of
In early traditions, she is known as the mother of gods and therefore is strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele, who have similar functions. The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right.
The Romans identified her with Magna Mater, and the Goddess Ops. Some ancient etymologists derived Rhea from, ground; the same suggest also modern scholars, although a tradition embodied in Plato and in Chrysippus connected the word with, flow, discharge, which is what LSJ supports.
Alternatively, the name Rhea may be connected with words for the pomegranate, later. The name Rhea may ultimately derive from a pre-Greek or Minoan source.
Graves suggested that Rhea's name is probably a variant of Era, earth. According to Hesiod, Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus in that order. The philosopher Plato recounts that Rhea, Cronus and Phorcys were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys. Gaia and Uranus told Cronus that just as he had overthrown his own father, he was destined to be overcome by his own child; so as each of his children was born, Cronus swallowed them. Rhea, Uranus and Gaia devised a plan to save the last of
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