Pontus (mythology)
Greek personification of the sea
Summary
In Greek mythology, Pontus is the personification of the sea. In Hesiod's Theogony, he is the offspring of Gaia, who produces him alone. With Gaia, he becomes the progenitor of a family comprising mostly marine beings and monsters; the pair's children are Nereus, Phorcys, Ceto, Thaumas, and Eurybia. In a fragment of the lost Titanomachy, Pontus and Gaia are described as the parents of Aigaion. The 2nd-century AD Fabulae assigns Pontus a consort named Mare, and places him as the son of Gaia and Aether.
Originally created by Bacchiad
7/17/2004, 4:37:19 PM
Modified
5/15/2026, 9:39:04 PM
Recent revisions
Disambiguating links to [[Corinth]] (link changed to [[Ancient Corinth]]) using [[User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist|DisamAssist]].
Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1351713954|1351713954]] by [[Special:Contributions/ThunderBrine|ThunderBrine]] ([[User talk:ThunderBrine|talk]]) What does "dubious" mean here? No good reason to have a one-sentence paragraph at the beginning. The other changes seem no better than what we currently have.
correct minor typo
Make TOC show up
Replacing [[WP:TWL|TWL]] proxy links ([[User:BsoykaBot/Task 2|Task 2]], v0.5.3, [[User talk:BsoykaBot|report errors]])
dab
Trim infobox (the information is essentially correct, but a bit misleading), rm template, collapse large box
/* References */ Trim, don't think the other adds much
/* Genealogy */ ce
Expand a bit
Changing [[Wikipedia:Short description|short description]] from "Primordial Greek god of the sea" to "Greek personification of the sea"
trim hatnote
/* References */ Probably not written by him
/* References */ Add Dimitrov
/* top */ Found a source
fix placement -- would probably be ideal to have a source for this one too, though, as I don't see mention of it in the LIMC
/* top */ According to Eraslan, "Tethys and Thalassa in Mosaic Art", p. 3, this is an example of an "Oceanus figure", so this doesn't seem to be a depiction of Pontus
One too many templates, I think
/* Sources */ Don't think this is particularly useful -- we should explain what the sources say, not just present a list of quotes
