Family tree of the Greek gods

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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion.

Contents

Chaos
The Void
Tartarus
The Abyss		 Gaia
The Earth		 Eros
Desire [a] 		Erebus
Darkness		 Nyx
The Night
Moros
Doom		the Oneiroi
Dreams		 Nemesis
Retribution		 Momus
Blame		 Philotes
Affection		 Geras
Aging
Typhon Uranus
The Sky		the Ourea
Mountains		 Pontus
The Sea		 Aether
Heaven		 Hemera
The Day
Thanatos
Death		 Hypnos
Sleep		 Eris
Strife		 Apate
Deceit		 Oizys
Distress
the Erinyes the Gigantes the Meliae Aphrodite [b] the Hecatonchires the Cyclopes Echidna the Hesperides [c] the Keres the Moirae Charon
Oceanus Tethys Hyperion Theia Coeus Phoebe Cronus Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Crius Iapetus
the Oceanids Clymene Helios
Sun		 Eos
Dawn		 Asteria Demeter Hestia [d] Hera Prometheus Epimetheus
Inachus Melia the Heliades Selene
Moon		 Leto Hades Poseidon Zeus the Muses Atlas
Io Pleione
Apollo Artemis Persephone Athena Hebe Hephaestus Ares
Amphitrite the Hyades the Pleiades
Epaphus Dione Enyo Eileithyia
Penelope Maia
Alcmene Semele Hermes Aphrodite [b]
Heracles Dionysus [d] Pan Rhode Peitho Hermaphroditus Eros [a] Harmonia Deimos
Anteros Himeros Phobos

Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.

Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font

Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.

Key: Dotted lines show a marriage or affair.

Key: Solid lines show children.

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 There are conflicting stories regarding the origins of Eros. Eros is usually mentioned as the son of Aphrodite and Ares, but Hesiod's Theogony places him as one of the primordial beings which came after Chaos. [1]
  2. 1 2 There are two major conflicting stories for Aphrodite's origins: Hesiod, in his Theogony , claims that she was "born" from the foam of the sea after Cronus castrated Uranus, thus making her Uranus' daughter; [2] Homer, however, in his Iliad , has Aphrodite as daughter of Zeus and Dione. [3] According to Plato, however, the two were entirely separate entities: Aphrodite Urania and Aphrodite Pandemos. [4]
  3. ↑ Hesiod puts Nyx as the mother of the Hesperides; [5] they are alternatively daughters of Nyx and Erebus, [6] of Atlas, [7] of Atlas and Hesperis, [8] of Phorcys and Ceto, [9] or of Zeus and Themis. [10]
  4. 1 2 Either Hestia or Dionysus is considered the 12th Olympian.

References

  1. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 120.
  2. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 190–200.
  3. ↑ Homer, Iliad 370.
  4. ↑ Plato, Symposium , 180e.
  5. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 215.
  6. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44.
  7. ↑ Hyginus, De astronomia 2.3.1 [= Pherecydes, fr. 33a ( FGrHist , p. 79)].
  8. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.27.2.
  9. ↑ scholia in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica , 4.1399.
  10. ↑ Scholiast on Euripides, Hippolytus 742 (Cavarezan, p. 288) [= Pherecydes fr. 16d Fowler (p. 286) = FGrH 3 F33a.
  11. ↑ Ogden, Daniel (2010-02-01). A Companion to Greek Religion. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-4443-3417-3.
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