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Tityus

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Tityus
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The current source names Tityus and his parentage but does not explicitly establish deity or monster status; character is conservative.

Aliases

1

son of Gaia

Descriptive reference · Reported

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
Panopeus1 observation
·Remembered

Tityus violated Leto while she was passing through Panopeus.

See evidence text
“‘And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground. Two vultures on either side of him were digging their beaks into his liver, and he kept on trying to beat them off with his hands, but could not; for he had violated Jove’s mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho. ”
plain where Tityus lies1 observation
·Remembered

Tityus lay stretched upon his plain.

See evidence text
“‘And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground. Two vultures on either side of him were digging their beaks into his liver, and he kept on trying to beat them off with his hands, but could not; for he had violated Jove’s mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho. ”

Claims

2
·Reported

Tityus is Gaia’s son.

See evidence text
“Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia”
·Remembered

Tityus, son of Gaia, lies across nine acres while vultures tear his liver, punishment for violating Leto as she travelled through Panopeus.

See evidence text
“Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground. Two vultures on either side of him were digging their beaks into his liver, and he kept on trying to beat them off with his hands, but could not; for he had violated Jove’s mistress Leto as she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho.”

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.’