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== Family ==
[[Homer]] describes them as ''kourai'' "maidens" of Zeus rather than ''thugateres'' "daughters", so it is not clear if they were his literal daughters.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.492-9.537 9.502].</ref>

This is supported by [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], who attests that they were the children of the king of the gods:<blockquote>([[Paris (mythology)|Paris]] addresses his former wife [[Oenone|Oinone]]): 'Remember not those pangs of jealousy, nor leave me by a cruel doom to die low fallen at thy feet! This should offend the Litai (Prayers), the daughters of the Thunderer Zeus, whose anger followeth unrelenting pride with vengeance, and the [[Erinyes|Erinnys]] (Fury) executes their wrath.'<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''Posthomerica'' [https://archive.org/details/falloftroy00quin/page/440/mode/2up?view=theater 10.301 (pp. 440, 441)]. {{PD-notice}}</ref></blockquote>