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- Instance of
- mythological serpent
- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Eurynome
- Child
- Uranus
- Image
- Orphic-egg.png
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Encyclopedic overview
In some versions of Greek mythology, Ophion (/oʊˈfaɪən/; Ancient Greek: Ὀφίων "serpent"; gen.: Ὀφίωνος), also called Ophioneus (Ὀφιονεύς) ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea.
Mythology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ophion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.