According to
Hesiod, Thaumas' wife was
Electra (one of the
Oceanids, the many daughters of the
TitansOceanus and
Tethys), by whom he fathered
Iris (the messenger of the gods),
Arke (formerly the messenger of the Titans), and the
Harpies.[2]
The names of Thaumas' Harpy daughters vary. Hesiod and
Apollodorus name them:
Aello and
Ocypete.
Virgil, names
Celaeno as one of the Harpies.[3] However, while
Hyginus, Fabulae Preface has the Harpies, Celaeno, Ocypete, and Podarce, as daughters of Thaumas and Electra, at Fabulae 14.18, the Harpies are said to be named Aellopous, Celaeno, and Ocypete, and are the daughters of Thaumas and Ozomene.[4]
The late 4th-early 5th century poet
Nonnus gives Thaumas and Electra two children, Iris, and the river
Hydaspes.[5]
Plato associates Thaumas' name with θαῦμα ("wonder").[6]
Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921.
Internet Archive
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae in Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.
ISBN978-0-87220-821-6.