Eurybia ("wide-strength") was a sea-Titaness, daughter of Pontus and Gaia rather than of the original Titanic line, and wife of Crius. By him she bore Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. She is little more than a name in the genealogical scheme.
Before thisCrius
Next on the wallAsteria
Curator’s note
What the sources say, and what later tradition added. The sources for this bay
Hesiod, Theogony 239, 375–377.
Kin in the sources
Each tie is quoted from the entry that states it.
Child ofPontusdaughter of Pontus and Gaia rather than of the original Titanic line, and wife of Crius
Child ofGaiadaughter of Pontus and Gaia rather than of the original Titanic line, and wife of Crius
- Consort ofCrius
daughter of Pontus and Gaia rather than of the original Titanic line, and wife of Crius
Parent ofAstraeusBy him she bore Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
Parent ofPallas (Titan)By him she bore Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
Parent ofPersesBy him she bore Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
When the sources speak
Dated witnesses for The Titans and Their Children. A date marks when the evidence was written down, not when the belief began. The whole timeline
- c. 1600–1100 BCE
- Mycenaean palace tablets in Linear B record offerings and divine names, but little continuous myth.
- c. 1100–800 BCE
- Post-palatial oral traditions and changing cult landscapes precede the surviving alphabetic epics.
- late 8th–7th centuries BCE
- The Iliad, Odyssey, Hesiodic Theogony and Works and Days give influential but non-exclusive divine orders.
- 7th–6th centuries BCE
- Homeric Hymns, lyric poetry, colonization, and local sanctuary traditions multiply regional narratives.
- 6th–5th centuries BCE
- Orphic, Pythagorean, and mystery materials develop alternative cosmogonies and afterlife doctrines.
- 5th century BCE
- Athenian tragedy and comedy recast heroic houses and divine justice for civic audiences.
- 4th century BCE
- Philosophers, antiquarians, and local historians interpret or criticize inherited myth.
- 323–31 BCE
- Hellenistic poets and scholars systematize variants across an enlarged Greek world.