Hecate represented the moon in her invisible phases, and it was thought that when she was absent from the earth she was in the lower world. […] Dreading the anger of her father, she fled to Sicyon*, where she married Epopeus*. […] But she is soon taken from her beautiful home. […] He had sworn by the Styx to grant whatever she desired, so, as she refused to withdraw her foolish request, her death was the consequence. […] In ancient sculpture she is usually represented in connection with the colossal statues of Zeus and Athene, in which case she is life-sized, and stands on a ball held in the open palm of the deity she accompanies.