Perses
Πέρσης
The Titan who married Asteria, Titan of stars, and fathered Hecate.
Son of Crius and Eurybia, he is brother to Astraeus and Pallas.
Hesiod calls him "eminent in wisdom," and tells that Hecate was born of his union with Asteria, the star Titan.
What he passed down to the goddess of crossroads and magic is nowhere written. There is only the interpretation that his name is linked to destruction.
SourcesHesiod, Theogony
Commonly confused
A different man from Perses the son of Perseus — the figure called the ancestor of the Persians — who merely shares the name.