Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, ,
at sacred-texts.com Acusilâus of Argos lived probably in the
sixth century B.C. He wrote a prose work on the origins of Gods
and men, called Genealogies. 1. (Chaos was the first principle,
and after it the pair, Erebus the male and Night the female;
from their union sprang Nether, Eros and Mêtis; and the other
gods are derived from these). 2. (Plato, Symposium 178B:
Acusilaus agrees with Hesiod that Chaos came first, and after
Chaos Earth and Eros). 3. (Eros the son of Night and Aether). 4.
(Koios: among names of male and female Titans). 5. (Iris is the
messenger of all the gods. The Harpies guard the apples of the
Hesperides). 6. (Cerberus is the son of Echidnê and Typho; also
other monsters, including the eagle that eats the liver of
Prometheus). 7. (Typho attacked the kingdom of Zeus). 8.
(Phorcys was the son of Eidothea and father of the Graeae.
Proteus and Tithonus, though old, were immortal. There are two
generations of goddesses: the olde