Althaea
Greek · quartigod · Recorded classification
Althaea is named as the mother of Deianira by Dionysus and daughter of the Aetolian Thestius in the dynastic pedigree. Her own mother is not named in this passage.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
- father: Thestius of AetoliaApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- mother: EurythemisApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Apollodorus: Aetolian ancestryThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
Claimed divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.
- father: Thestius of AetoliaApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- mother: EurythemisApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
Complete cited pedigree (24 ancestral accounts)
- Thestius of AetoliaThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: AresApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- mother: DemoniceApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- DemoniceThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Agenor of PleuronApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- mother: Epicaste, daughter of CalydonApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- Agenor of PleuronThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: PleuronApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- mother: Xanthippe, daughter of DorusApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- PleuronThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: AetolusApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- mother: Pronoe, daughter of PhorbusApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- AetolusThe first account names an unnamed Naiad as mother. No personal identity is invented; the incomplete parents array names only Endymion. Iphianassa is preserved as an alternative.
- father: EndymionApollodorus, Library 1.7.6 (primary)
- EndymionThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: AethliusApollodorus, Library 1.7.5 (primary)
- mother: Calyce, daughter of AeolusApollodorus, Library 1.7.5 (primary)
- AethliusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: ZeusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- mother: Protogenia, daughter of DeucalionApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- Protogenia, daughter of DeucalionThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Deucalion, son of PrometheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- mother: PyrrhaApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- Deucalion, son of PrometheusPrometheus is named as father; the mother is not named in this passage.
- father: PrometheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- PyrrhaThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: EpimetheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- mother: PandoraApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- Calyce, daughter of AeolusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Aeolus, son of HellenApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother: EnareteApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- Aeolus, son of HellenThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: HellenApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother: OrseisApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- HellenThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Deucalion, son of PrometheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- mother: PyrrhaApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- EnareteThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Deimachus, father of EnareteApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- Pronoe, daughter of PhorbusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Phorbus, father of PronoeApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- Xanthippe, daughter of DorusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Dorus, father of XanthippeApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- Epicaste, daughter of CalydonThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: CalydonApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- mother: Aeolia, daughter of AmythaonApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- CalydonThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: AetolusApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- mother: Pronoe, daughter of PhorbusApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- Aeolia, daughter of AmythaonThe passage names Amythaon as father but no mother; his marriage to Idomene is not evidence for this daughter's maternity.
- father: AmythaonApollodorus, Library 1.7.7 (primary)
- AmythaonThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: CretheusApollodorus, Library 1.9.11 (primary)
- mother: TyroApollodorus, Library 1.9.11 (primary)
- CretheusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Aeolus, son of HellenApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother: EnareteApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- TyroThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: SalmoneusApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- mother: Alcidice, mother of TyroApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- SalmoneusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Aeolus, son of HellenApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother: EnareteApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- EurythemisThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- mother: Cleoboea, mother of EurythemisApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- Satyrus: transmitted divine ancestryOnly the parents named in the transmitted passage are included. Missing coparents remain unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
Claimed divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.
- father: Thestius of AetoliaSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Deianira: Apollodorus: Aetolian ancestryApollodorus, Library 1.8.1 (primary)
- Deianira: Satyrus: transmitted divine ancestrySatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- Deianira: Oeneus and Althaea: ApollodorusApollodorus, Library 1.8.1 (primary)
Relations
- father: Thestius of AetoliaApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- mother: EurythemisApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- father (Apollodoran account): Thestius of AetoliaApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- mother (Apollodoran account): EurythemisApollodorus, Library 1.7.10 (primary)
- child (Apollodoran account): DeianiraApollodorus, Library 1.8.1 (primary)
- father (dynastic pedigree): Thestius of AetoliaNamed parent in the Satyrus pedigree; select that account to display the claimed lineage.Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- child (dynastic pedigree): DeianiraNamed child in the Satyrus pedigree; this claim does not alter conventional default parentage.Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- child: DeianiraApollodorus, Library 1.8.1 (primary)
- spouse: OeneusApollodorus, Library 1.8.1 (primary)
Sources
- Althaea is named as the mother of Deianira by Dionysus and daughter of the Aetolian Thestius in the dynastic pedigree. Her own mother is not named in this passage.: Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)