Hesiod's
Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as the
Graeae (naming only two:
Pemphredo, and
Enyo), the
Gorgons (
Stheno,
Euryale and
Medusa), probably
Echidna (though the text is unclear on this point) and Ceto's "youngest, the awful snake who guards the apples all of gold in the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds", also called the Drakon Hesperios ("Hesperian Dragon", or dragon of the Hesperides) or
Ladon. These children tend to be consistent across sources, though Ladon is often cited as a child of Echidna by
Typhon and therefore Phorcys and Ceto's grandson. According to
Apollodorus,
Scylla was the daughter of
Crataeis, with the father being either Trienus (
Triton?) or Phorcus (a variant of
Phorkys).
Apollonius of Rhodes has Scylla as the daughter of Phorcys and a conflated
Crataeis-Hecate. Once, when
Heracles killed Scylla during his labours, Phorcys brought her back to life with fire. According to a fragment of
Sophocles, Phorcys is the father of the
Sirens. The scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes cites Phorcys and Ceto as the parents of the
Hesperides, but this assertion is not repeated in other ancient sources. Homer refers to
Thoosa, the mother of
Polyphemus, as a daughter of Phorcys, with no mother specified. == Notes ==