Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares,1 but he had intercourse
with many women, both mortals and immortals. By Themis, daughter of Sky, he had daughters,
the Seasons, to wit, Peace, Order, and Justice; also the Fates, to wit,
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropus;2 by Dione he had Aphrodite;3 by Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, he had
the Graces, to wit, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia;4 by Styx he had
Persephone;5 and by Memory （ Mnemosyne） he had the Muses, first
Calliope, then Clio, Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato,
Terpsichore, Urania, Thalia, and Polymnia.6
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1 As to the offspring of Zeus and Hera, see Hom. Il. 5.889ff. （Ares）, Hom. Il. 11.270ff. （Ilithyia）, Hom. Od. 11.603ff. （Hebe）; Hes. Th. 921ff. According to Hesiod, Hera was the last consort whom Zeus took to himself; his first wife was Metis, and his second Themis （Hes. Th. 886; Hes. Th. 901; Hes. Th. 921）.
2 For the daughters of Zeus and Themis, see Hes. Th. 901ff.
3 As to Dione, mother of Aphrodite, see Hom. Il. 5.370ff.; Eur. Hel. 1098; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte. Hesiod represents Aphrodite as born of the sea-foam which gathered round the severed genitals of Sky （Uranus）. See Hes. Th. 188ff.
4 As to the parentage of the Graces, see Hes. Th. 907ff.; Paus. 9.35.5; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte.
5 According to the usual account, the mother of Persephone was not Styx but Demeter. See Hes. Th. 912ff.; HH Dem. 1ff.; Paus. 8.37.9; Hyginus, Fab. p. 30, ed. Bunte.
6 As to the names and parentage of the Muses, see Hes. Th. 915ff.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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