Io and Her Family
Hermes squinted at the list Apollo had given him. “This can’t be right. The next name is Io, but she is a nymph, not one of the blessed dead.”
“Some say that her parents were mortal,” said Apollodorus.
“She lived with mortals and may have had mortal foster parents,” said Hermes, “but her father was the river god Inachus, and her mother, the Oceanid Melia.”
“As Deucalion said, the boundaries were a little less clear in those days,” Apollodorus replied. “Besides, her brothers, Phoroneus and Aegialeus, were mortal.”
“Or at least pretended to be,” said a voice behind them.
Turning, they saw a beautiful woman with a headdress that made her look as if she had two horns sprouting from her head. Her gown looked to Thanos more like what one saw in ancient Egyptian art than i
