Uranus

God

In Greek mythology, Uranus ( YOOR-ə-nəs, also yoo-RAY-nəs), sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', [uːranós]), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities. According to Hesiod, Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia (Earth), with whom he fathered the first generation of Titans.

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Uranus. The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn
The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn · Giorgio Vasari / Cristoforo GherardiImage source Public domain

Mentions in the Iliad

A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“but fair Aphrodite flung herself upon the knees of her mother Dione. She clasped her daughter in her arms, and stroked her with her hand and spake to her, saying: Who now of the sons of heaven, dear child, hath entreated thee thus wantonly, as though thou wert working some evil before the face of all?”
Il. 5.370–374
“Howbeit I will no longer endure that thou shouldest be in pain, for thou art mine offspring, and it was to me that thy mother bare thee; but wert thou born of any other god, thus pestilent as thou art, then long ere this hadst thou been lower than the sons of heaven. He spake, and bade Paeëon heal his hurt;”
Il. 5.895–899
“and she spake and addressed him with winged words: Hereto now be Earth my witness and the broad Heaven above, and the down-flowing water of Styx, which is the greatest and most dread oath for the blessed gods, and thine own sacred head, and the couch of us twain, couch of our wedded love,”
Il. 15.35–39

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In art

Giorgio Vasari. The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn. Palazzo Vecchio. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5489695

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