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Gaia

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Gaia
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The current source names Gaia only as Tityus’s parent and does not explicitly establish deity status; character is conservative.

Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

1
·Reported

Gaia is Tityus’s parent.

See evidence text
“yellow-haired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Reported
“Tityus the son of Gaia”
·Remembered
“Tityus son of Gaia”

Passage preview

Book 7 · Passage 26

‘Stranger,’ replied Alcinous, ‘I am not the kind of man to get angry about nothing; it is always better to be reasonable; but by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, now that I see what kind of person you are, and how much you think as I do, I wish you would stay here, marry my daughter, and become my son-in-law. If you will stay I will give you a house and an estate, but no one (heaven forbid) shall keep you here against your own wish, and that you may be sure of this I will attend tomorrow to the matter of your escort. You can sleep {64} during the whole voyage if you like, and the men shall sail you over smooth waters either to your own home, or wherever you please, even though it be a long way further off than Euboea, which those of my people who saw it when they took yellow-haired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any place—and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day without distressing themselves, and came back again afterwards. You will thus see how much my ships excel all others, and what magnificent oarsmen my sailors are.’