Talk:Phoebe (Titaness)

The greek god phobe
phobe was a powerful goddess she ruled the main lands like the goddess she enjoyed her life as the goddess. As she enroled her days as goddess she quite particularly inpressed with her life as she inroled she she spent her days as godess of the main lands in greek history speacil she felt that soner or later the greek gods line of greek gods and godess would come to a end so she opened a life to a new born child leto now phobe wasnt a only child she also had her brother choes .her brother after 16 years of age died in the battle of greeks.as phobes son leto got more and more into age he finnaly discovered that he was ready to inrole in one of the battles of greeks now leto knew very well that his father ceous had died in the battle of greeks and since phobe was already getting very old in age he knew he was ging to make a new change in the history of greeks and win the battle of greeks after a year of battling leto had passed away and phobe had to. And that is the story of phobe the godess of the seas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.237.54.165 (talk) 00:49, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Questions and comments
1. "Phoebe was traditionally associated with the moon (see Selene)".

Why? Selene was not her daughter. She was Theia's daughter. What's the correlation?

2. The article mentions Leto and Asteria as daughters but leaves out Lelantos. Why? Lelantos should be listed as well.

3. The article also says "Ouranos, as was fitting, gave the oracle to his wife Gaia and Kronos appropriately allotted it to his sister Themis." Before that, it says "corresponding to the three generations of the gods". Since Uranus and Gaia are the parents of the first generation of Titans which include Kronos and Themis as well as Phoebe, I don't see how there can be three generations, unless Gaia is the first and Uranus is the second since Gaia generated Uranus. What's the case?

ICE77 (talk) 03:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Reply to 1.: The name 'Pheobe' (meaning bright), was one of the epithets of Selene (the moon), so it would be correct to say that the name Phoebe was associated with the moon. But I don't know that the Titanide Phoebe, was herself, ever associated with the moon. The article claims that Michael Drayton's Endimion and Phœbe, is an example of such an association. I'm not familiar with the work, but I would guess that the Phoebe here refers to Selene, who was, famously, Endymion's lover, and not to the Titanide. I've added "citation needed" tags to that sentence, for both of the assertions that a) the Titanide Phoebe was "traditionally associated with the moon", and that b) an example of this association is Endimion and Phœbe. Paul August &#9742; 13:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Reply to 2.: I believe that the Titan Lelantos, only occurs in Nonnus's Dionysiaca, where no mention is made of who his parents were. What is your source for saying that his mother is Phoebe? (I suspect this is coming from Theoi.com which is not a reliable source). Paul August &#9742; 13:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Reply to 3.: The three "allotments" referred to are: Uranus to Gaia, Cronus to Themis, and Zeus to Phoebe, which correspond to the three generations of rulers, Uranus, Cronus and Zeus. Paul August &#9742; 14:06, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * see above. Paul August &#9742; 14:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

2. I read that Lelantos was the son of Coeus and Phoebe, most likely something I read from Wikipedia that now disappeared. The only places where I see the same statement about Lelantos being son of Coeus and Phoebe are these: https://www.greekmythology.com/Titans/Lelantos/lelantos.html and http://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/lelantos.html. I do not see sources nor I see those websites. I typically read from Wikipedia and sometimes from Encyclopedia Mythica.

3. All I read is "Phoebe received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis". I do not see a specific sentence that says Zeus passed the oracle to Themis.

ICE77 (talk) 06:33, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

pronounciation
the given pronounciation, is how the given name is pronounced in english, but not how the titaness was called. Norschweden (talk) 18:15, 2 February 2020 (UTC)