User:Michael Aurel/Genealogy Charts

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Zeus

Birth

Children of Cronus and Rhea[1]
Gaia
CronusRhea
HestiaDemeterHeraHadesPoseidonZEUS
  1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 133–8, 453–8 (Most, pp. 12, 13, 38, 39); Caldwell, p. 4, table 2, p. 9, table 12.

Seven wives

Children of Zeus and his first six wives[1]
ZEUS
Metis[2]
Athena[3]
Themis
Lachesis
Atropos
The HoraeThe Moirai[4]
Eurynome[2]Demeter
Euphrosyne
ThaliaPersephone
The Charites
Mnemosyne
ClioThaleiaTerpsichorePolyhymniaCalliope
EuterpeMelpomeneEratoUrania
The Muses
Leto
ApolloArtemis
  1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 886–920 (Most, pp. 74–77); Caldwell, p. 11, table 14.
  2. ^
    Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at 358
    .
  3. ^ Of Zeus' children by his seven wives, Athena was the first to be conceived (889), but the last to be born. Zeus impregnated Metis then swallowed her, later Zeus himself gave birth to Athena "from his head" (924).
  4. ^ At 217 the Moirai are the daughters of Nyx.

Marriage to Hera

Children of Zeus and Hera[1]
ZEUSHera
HebeAresEileithyiaHephaestus[2]
  1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 921–9 (Most, pp. 76, 77); Caldwell, p. 12, table 14.
  2. ^ According to Hesiod, Hera produces Hephaestus on her own, without a father (Theogony 927–9). In the Iliad and the Odyssey, however, he is the son of Zeus and Hera; see Gantz, p. 74; Homer, Iliad 1.577–9, 14.293–6, 14.338, Odyssey 8.312.

Themis

Themis's family tree[1]
Gaia
Pontus
Hyperion
TheiaCriusEurybia
The RiversThe OceanidsHeliosSelene[2]EosAstraeusPallasPerses
Phoebe
HestiaHeraHadesZeusLetoAsteria
DemeterPoseidon
Asia)[3]
Mnemosyne(Zeus)THEMIS
Epimetheus
The Muses
Lachesis
Atropos
The HoraeThe Moirai[6]
  1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 132–138, 337–411, 453–520, 901–906, 915–920; Caldwell, pp. 8–11, tables 11–14.
  2. ^ Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes.
  3. Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351, was the mother by Iapetus of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, while according to Apollodorus, 1.2.3
    , another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus.
  4. Cleito
    .
  5. ^ In Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 18, 211, 873 (Sommerstein, pp. 444, 445 n. 2, 446, 447 n. 24, 538, 539 n. 113) Prometheus is made to be the son of Themis.
  6. ^ Earlier, at 217, the Moirai are instead called the offspring of Nyx (Night).

Psamathe (Nereid)

Psamathe's family tree
Doris
Aeacus[1]PSAMATHEProteus
PhocusEido/TheonoeTheoklymenos
  1. ^ For more detailed charts of Aeacus' genealogy, see Hard, p. 711, table 18 and Grimal, p. 550, table 30.