Eidyia
The youngest of the Oceanids, whose name means "the knowing one," wife of Aeetes and mother of Medea.
The Myth of Eidyia
Eidyia, sometimes spelled Idyia, was one of the three thousand Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. Her name means "the knowing one" or "she who knows," and she was considered the youngest of her vast sisterhood. She married Aeetes, king of Colchis and son of Helios, and bore him the sorceress Medea and Chalciope. Through Medea, Eidyia became the grandmother of a lineage connected to the Argonauts and the tragedies of Corinth. Her epithet of knowledge associated her with the kind of divine wisdom that her granddaughter Medea would later wield through sorcery.
Children
{Medea,Chalciope}
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Fun Fact
Eidyia's daughter Medea is one of the most powerful sorceresses in all of Greek mythology, suggesting the "knowing one" passed formidable wisdom to her offspring.
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