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  "name": "Tethys",
  "summary": "Titaness, daughter of Earth and Heaven and wife of Oceanus, who \"bore to Ocean eddying rivers\" and the Oceanids; Homer's \"mother Tethys\" who with Oceanus nursed the infant Hera. Hesiod and Apollodorus give different lists of her daughters, and disagree about Amphitrite.",
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    "water"
  ],
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      "target": "gaia"
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      "target": "uranus"
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    {
      "rel": "sibling_of",
      "target": "oceanus"
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      "rel": "sibling_of",
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      "target": "hera"
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    }
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  "questions": [
    "Who is Tethys?",
    "Is Tethys a Titan?",
    "Who are the children of Tethys?",
    "Did Tethys raise Hera?",
    "Is Amphitrite a daughter of Tethys?"
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "\"Lovely Tethys\" closes Hesiod's list of the Titan daughters of Earth and Heaven (Theog. 135–136); Apollodorus names her first among the Titanides, \"Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia\" (Apollod. 1.1.3).",
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    },
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      "id": "c2",
      "text": "\"Tethys bore to Ocean eddying rivers\" — Nilus, Alpheus, Eridanus and the rest — and \"a holy company of daughters\" from Peitho to Styx (Theog. 337–363); the unnamed rivers too are \"sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bare\" (Theog. 366–368).",
      "sources": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "Homer makes her Hera's foster-mother: Hera goes to \"Oceanus, from whom the gods are sprung, and mother Tethys, even them that lovingly nursed and cherished me in their halls, when they had taken me from Rhea\" (Il. 14.200–204).",
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    },
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      "text": "Apollodorus's Oceanids are \"Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis\" (Apollod. 1.2.2). Hesiod's list of forty-one has Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Metis and Asia (Theog. 349–361) but makes Amphitrite a daughter of Nereus (Theog. 243) — the two genealogies of Amphitrite do not agree.",
      "sources": [
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        "hesiod-theogony"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.92
    }
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  "takeaways": [
    "Mother of every river and of the Oceanids by Oceanus (Theog. 337–370).",
    "Homer, not Hesiod, makes her Hera's nurse (Il. 14.200–204).",
    "Amphitrite is a Nereid in Hesiod and an Oceanid in Apollodorus."
  ],
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      "claim": "c1"
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      "q": "Who are the children of Tethys?",
      "claim": "c2"
    },
    {
      "q": "Did Tethys raise Hera?",
      "claim": "c3"
    },
    {
      "q": "Is Amphitrite a daughter of Tethys?",
      "claim": "c4"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_tier": "primary",
  "evidence": {
    "level": "theoretical",
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    ]
  },
  "moat_flag": false,
  "winning_edge": "Sets Hesiod's and Apollodorus's Oceanid lists side by side and names the daughter they disagree on.",
  "confidence": 0.93,
  "last_verified": "2026-09-03",
  "media": [],
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