According toHesiod, Thaumas's wife wasElectra (one of theOceanids, the many daughters of theTitansOceanus andTethys), by whom he fatheredIris (the messenger of the gods),Arke (formerly the messenger of the Titans), and theHarpies.[2]
The names of Thaumas's Harpy daughters vary. Hesiod andApollodorus name them:Aello andOcypete.Virgil, namesCelaeno as one of the Harpies.[3] However, whileHyginus,Fabulae Preface has the Harpies, Celaeno, Ocypete, and Podarce, as daughters of Thaumas and Electra, atFabulae 14.18, the Harpies are said to be named Aellopous, Celaeno, and Ocypete, and are the daughters of Thaumas and Ozomene.[4]
The 5th-century poetNonnus gives Thaumas and Electra two children, Iris, and the riverHydaspes.[5]
Plato associates Thaumas's name withθαῦμα ("wonder").[6]
Apollodorus,Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Callimachus,Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921.Internet Archive
Hesiod,Theogony, inThe Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Hyginus, Gaius Julius,Fabulae inApollodorus'Library and Hyginus'Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.ISBN978-0-87220-821-6.
