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He swallowed the revered one, who sprang forthįirst into the aither. When Zeus had heard the prophecies from his father, However, a scholion to Theocritus reports that, according to Acusilaus, Aether and Nyx were the parents of Eros. early sixth century), Acusilaus said that Aether was, along with Eros and Metis, the offspring Erebus and Nyx. According to the Neoplatonist Damascius (c. Īether also appears in genealogies attributed to the sixth-century BC logographer and mythographer Acusilaus. The Homeric Parsings (from Methodius), reports that Uranus was Aether's son, while Philodemus, in his De Pietate ( On Piety), reports that "everything came from Aither". Two ancient sources report statements about Aether, which they attribute to the "author of the Titanomachy". Īether perhaps also figured in the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?). In Hesiod's Theogony, Chaos was the first being after which came Gaia (Earth), Tartarus, and Eros, then from Chaos came Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and from Erebus and Nyx came Aether and Hemera (Day): įrom Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus. However, Aether (personified) figured prominently in early Greek cosmogony. For example Homer has Sleep climb:Ī fir-tree exceeding tall, the highest that then grew in Ida and it reached up through the mists into heaven. Sources Early įor the ancient Greeks, the word aether (unpersonified), referred to the upper atmosphere, a material element of the cosmos. Pain, Deception, Anger, Mourning, Lying, Oath, Vengeance, Self-indulgence, Quarreling, Forgetfullness, Sloth, Fear, Arrogance, Incest, Fighting, Ocean, Themis, Tartarus, and Pontus and the Titans, Briareus, Gyges, Steropes, Atlas, Hyperion and Polus, Saturn, Ops, Moneta, Dione, and the three Furies ( Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone). According to Hyginus's (possibly confused) genealogy, Nox (Night), Dies, Erebus, and Aether were the offspring of Chaos and Caligo (Mist), and Aether and Dies were the parents of Terra (Earth), Caelus (Sky) and Mare (Sea), and Aether and Terra were the parents of: Cicero says that Aether and Dies (Day) were the parents of Caelus (Sky), and reports that according to the "so called theologians" Aether was the father of one of the "three Jupiters".

Īether also played a role in Roman genealogies of the gods.

The Orphic Argonautica gives a theogony that begins with Chaos and Chronus, and has Chronus producing Aether and Eros. And made from (or placed in) Aether was the cosmic egg, from which hatched Phanes/Protogonus, so Aether was sometimes said to be his father. In Orphic cosmogony Aether was the offspring of Chronus (Time), the first primordial deity, and the brother of Chaos and Erebus. Others tell us that Uranus (Sky) (in Hesiod, the son of Gaia) was Aether's son, and that "everything came from" Aether. According to one, the union of Erebus and Nyx resulted in Aether, Eros, and Metis (rather than Aether and Hemera), while according to another, Aether and Nyx were the parents of Eros (in Hesiod, the fourth god to come into existence after Chaos, Gaia (Earth), and Tartarus). However, other early sources give other genealogies. According to Hesiod's Theogony, which contained the "standard" Greek genealogy of the gods, Aether was the offspring of Erebus and Nyx, and the brother of Hemera.