The long list of goddesses and the mortal men whose children they bore includes Demeter and Iasion, Harmonia and Cadmus, Callirhoe and Chrysaor (Medusa's son), Eos and Tithonus (and Cephalus, and Orion, and Clitus), Thetis and Peleus, Aphrodite and Anchises, and Selene and Endymion. Perhaps these stories consoled grieving families who had lost sons
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