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Greek Gods Family Tree
Chaos
Single parent or
unknown second
parent
Gaia
(Earth)
Tartarus
Abyss
Nyx
(Night)
Eros
Erebus
Shadow
Love
Two parents
Typhon
Relationship
or marriage
No border
Line
Dashed
Dotted
God(dess) or
important mortal
Monstrousness/
Destruction
Mortal family
tree, eventually
from Poseidon
6 generations,
eventually
from Epaphus
Mnemosyne
Monster
Female
God of Olympus
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Aether
Hemera
Ocean
Air
Day
Cronus
Rhea
Coeus
Phoebe
Hyperion
Time
Flow
Axis
Shining
Sun
Watchfulness
Momus
(blame)
Ponos
(woe)
Moros
(fate)
Thanatos
(death)
Hypnos
(sleep)
The
Hesperides
The Keres
and Fates
Nemesis
Licymnius
Dionysus
Hades
The Hearth
Well-ordered
domesticity
(house &
family)
Alcmene
Heracles
Apate
(deception)
Philotes
(friendship)
Geras
(age)
Eris
(strife)
Nymphs
Hecatonchires
Iapetus
Oceanus
Echidna
Tethys
Mortal life
Oceanids
Hestia
Semele
Pink
The Cyclopes
Pontus
Electryon
Other
Male
Mountains
Sky
Memory/
Retention
Titan
Blue
Uranus
Ares
Hebe
2
Hera
The Region
Mature
of the
Womanhood
Unseen &
&
the influence
Marriage
of
unseen/dead
beings
1
Hephaestus
Genealogies
Many Greek gods have conflicting genealogies: Aphrodite is sometimes said
to be born “from the foam of the sea” rather than from Zeus and Dione.
Clymene either has six parents or the name refers to six distinct people.
Demeter
Poseidon
Earth Shaker
The Muses
Calliope, Clio,
Erato, Euterpe,
Melpomene,
Polyhymnia,
Terpsichore,
Thalia, Urania
Harvest
The fullness
of completion
Persephone
Melia
Zeus
The
overpowering
PRESENT/
the rule of
That Which
IS, the LAW
& WILL of
NATURE
Athena
Leto
Epimetheus
Hidden
beauty that
snares the eye
& manifests
itself in
pregnancy
Prometheus
Atlas
Dione
Io
Female Zeus
Mother
Creative
Aphrodite
Apollo
Pleiades
Artemis
Hermes
Rhodos
Peitho
Eunomia
Hermaphroditus
Abderus
Dryope or
Merope or Aero
Asterope
Calaeno
Electra
Alcyone
Taygete
Gods of Olympus
1 Hebe resigned her place after she married Heracles.
2 Hades was considered an Olympian god but spent most of his
time in the underworld.
Queen of the unseen
Intelligent skillful
underworld
political-military
Verdant vegetation
strategy
Tyche
“Three-thousand sons and daughters”
Pleione
Maia
Epaphus
Inachus
Pan
The Gods of Olympus occupied Mount Olympus.