Daughter of Ocean whom Homer calls Perse — wife of Helios and mother of Circe, Aeetes king of Colchis, and Pasiphae queen of Crete, the Oceanid ancestress of the eastern witch-princess and the Cretan labyrinth.1
Hesiod names her in the Oceanid catalogue as Perseis, and again at the marriage of the Sun: Perseis daughter of Ocean bore to unwearying Helios Circe and Aeetes the king — and Aeetes in turn wedded Idyia and begot Medea, closing one generation of the eastern royal line.2
Homer knows her only as Perse, whom Oceanus begot: Circe the dread goddess of human speech on Aeaea is own sister to Aeetes of baneful mind, and both are sprung from Helius who gives light to mortals and from Perse their mother.3
Apollodorus makes her the shared mother behind three sagas: Aeetes at Colchis is son of the Sun and of Perseis, brother of Circe and of Pasiphae whom Minos married; and Minos himself took Pasiphae, daughter of the Sun and Perseis, to wife at Crete.4
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