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Tethys

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Tethys
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Editorial note
Presented as mother Tethys in Juno’s explicitly lying account; the current book does not explicitly call her a deity.

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mother Tethys

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Claims

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·Reported

In Juno’s lying tale, Tethys is her foster-mother with Oceanus, and the pair have ceased sleeping together through anger.

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mother Tethys: they received me in their house, took care of me, and brought me up, having taken me over from Rhaea when Jove imprisoned great Saturn in the depths that are under earth and sea. I must go and see them that I may make peace between them; they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long while
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Juno’s lying tale calls Tethys her former foster-mother and says she is estranged from Oceanus.

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and mother Tethys; they received me into their house, took care of me, and brought me up. I must go and see them that I may make peace between them: they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long time.

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Oceanus (from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 15

Then Juno told her a lying tale and said, ‘I want you to endow me with some of those fascinating charms, the spells of which bring all things mortal and immortal to your feet. I am going to the world’s end to visit Oceanus (from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys: they received me in their house, took care of me, and brought me up, having taken me over from Rhaea when Jove imprisoned great Saturn in the depths that are under earth and sea. I must go and see them that I may make peace between them; they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long while; if I can bring them round and restore them to one another’s embraces, they will be grateful to me and love me for ever afterwards.’