Rhea

Titaness, consort of Cronus, mother of the Olympians who saved Zeus.

Parentage

• Uranus
• Gaia

Children

• Hades
• Hestia
• Zeus

Domains

• motherhood
• wild nature
• sovereignty

Powers

• Bears the first Olympian gods to Cronus
• Conceals infant Zeus and tricks Cronus with a stone

Epithets

• Ῥέα Μήτηρ θεῶν
• Μήτηρ θεῶν

Relations

• sibling: Coeus
• sibling: Crius
• sibling: Cronus
• sibling: Hyperion
• sibling: Iapetus
• sibling: Mnemosyne
• sibling: Oceanus
• sibling: Phoebe
• sibling: Tethys
• sibling: Theia
• sibling: Themis
• sibling: The Erinyes
• interpretatio: Cybele

Sources

• Hesiod, Theogony 453-458