Kej

Kej
Kej
Grupe	Titani
Roditelji	Uran i Geja
Suprug(a)	Feba
Braća	Titani, Centimani, Kiklopi,Giganti, Nerej, Fork, Pont, Piton, Taumant, Tifon, Uran
Sestre	Melijade, Erinije, Afrodita, Euribija, Keta
Mitologija	Grčka mitologija

Kej u grčkoj mitologiji, s (Κοῖος, Koios, "pitanje, ispitivanje" ili "inteligencija"^[1]), također nazvan Polus,^[2] je bio jedan od Titana, jedan od tri grupe djece rođene od Urana (Neba) i Geje (Zemlje).

Mitologija

Kej je bio opskurna figura,^[3] i kao većina Titana nije igrao nikakvu aktivnu ulogu u grčkoj mitologiji – pojavljuje se samo na spiskovima Titana^[4] – ali je prvenstveno bio važan zbog svojih potomake.^[5] Sa svojom sestrom, "sjajnom" Febom, Kej je imao dvije kćeri, Letu[7] i Asteria.^[6] Leta je spavala sa Zeusom (sinom Titana Krona i Reje) i rodio Artemida i Apolona. Asterija je postala majka Hekate od Perzesa (sin Titana Krija i polusestre Euribije).

Zajedno sa ostalim Titanima, Keja su zbacili Zeus i drugi Olimpijci u Titanomahiji. Nakon toga, njega i svu njegovu braću (bez Okeana) Zeus je zatvorio u Tartar. Kej, kasnije obuzet ludilom, oslobodio se svojih okova i pokušao pobjeći iz zatvora, ali ga je Kerber odbio.^[7]

Tacit je napisao da je Kej bio prvi stanovnik ostrva Kos, za koje se tvrdilo da je rodno mjesto njegove kćeri Lete.^[8] Kejevo ime je izmijenjeno iz Κοῖος(Koĩos) u Κῶιος(Kō̃ios), što je dovelo do njegove povezanosti s ostrvom.

Na kraju Zeus je oslobodio Titane, vjerovatno uključujući i Keja.^[9]

Reference

^ Gardner, Dorsey (1887). Webster's Condensed Dictionary. George Routledge and Sons. str. 714. Pristupljeno 19. 12. 2018.
^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface and 140
^ Ovid in Metamorphoses (VI.185) alludes to Coeus' obscure nature: "Latona, that Titaness whom Coeus sired, whoever he may be." (nescio quoque audete satam Titanida Coeo): M. L. West, in "Hesiod's Titans" (The Journal of Hellenic Studies 105 [1985:174–175]) remarks that Phoibe's "consort Koios is an even more obscure quantity. Perhaps he too had originally to with Delphic divination", and he suspects that Phoebe, Koios and Themis were Delphic additions to the list of Titanes, drawn from various archaic sources.
^ Such as Hesiod. Theogony, 133; Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheke, 1.1.3; Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica, 5.66.3 & Clement of Alexandria. Recognitions, 31
^ Hesiod included among his descendants Hekate, daughter of Asteriē, as Apostolos N. Athanassakis, noted, correcting the OCD, noted (Athanassakis, "Hekate Is Not the Daughter of Koios and Phoibe" The Classical World 71.2 [October 1977:127]); R. Renehan expanded the note in "Hekate, H. J. Rose, and C. M. Bowra", The Classical World, 73.5 (February 1980:302–304).
^ Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.2
^ Valerius Flaccus, "Argonautica" 3.224 ff
^ Tacitus, The Annals 12.61
^ Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.289-291; additionally, Aeschylus' lost play Prometheus Unbound features a chorus of freed Titans.

[1] Gardner, Dorsey (1887). Webster's Condensed Dictionary. George Routledge and Sons. str. 714. Pristupljeno 19. 12. 2018.

[2] Hyginus, Fabulae Preface and 140

[3] Ovid in Metamorphoses (VI.185) alludes to Coeus' obscure nature: "Latona, that Titaness whom Coeus sired, whoever he may be." (nescio quoque audete satam Titanida Coeo): M. L. West, in "Hesiod's Titans" (The Journal of Hellenic Studies 105 [1985:174–175]) remarks that Phoibe's "consort Koios is an even more obscure quantity. Perhaps he too had originally to with Delphic divination", and he suspects that Phoebe, Koios and Themis were Delphic additions to the list of Titanes, drawn from various archaic sources.

[4] Such as Hesiod. Theogony, 133; Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheke, 1.1.3; Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica, 5.66.3 & Clement of Alexandria. Recognitions, 31

[5] Hesiod included among his descendants Hekate, daughter of Asteriē, as Apostolos N. Athanassakis, noted, correcting the OCD, noted (Athanassakis, "Hekate Is Not the Daughter of Koios and Phoibe" The Classical World 71.2 [October 1977:127]); R. Renehan expanded the note in "Hekate, H. J. Rose, and C. M. Bowra", The Classical World, 73.5 (February 1980:302–304).

[6] Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.2

[7] Valerius Flaccus, "Argonautica" 3.224 ff

[8] Tacitus, The Annals 12.61

[9] Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.289-291; additionally, Aeschylus' lost play Prometheus Unbound features a chorus of freed Titans.

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