Editing Nemesis (section)

== Family ==
According to [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Nemesis was one of the children of [[Nyx]] alone.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:207-239 223].</ref> Nemesis has been described as the daughter of [[Oceanus]], [[Erebus]], or [[Zeus]],{{cn|date=December 2024}} but according to [[De astronomia|Hyginus]] she was a child of [[Erebus]] and [[Nyx]]. Some made her the daughter of Zeus by an unnamed mother.<ref name=":stas" /> In several traditions, Nemesis was seen as the mother of [[Helen of Troy]] by [[Zeus]], adopted and raised by [[Leda (mythology)|Leda]] and [[Tyndareus]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D33%3Asection%3D7 1.33.7]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D33%3Asection%3D8 8]</ref> According to the Byzantine poet [[Tzetzes]], [[Bacchylides]] had Nemesis as the mother of the [[Telchines]] by [[Tartarus]].<ref>Gantz, p. 149; [[Bacchylides]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/bacchylides-fragments/1992/pb_LCL461.299.xml fr. 52 Campbell, pp. 298, 299] [= [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] on [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'' 80&ndash;6 (Matranga, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xb4kAAAAMAAJ&pg=580 p. 580])].</ref>