Greek Family Tree
One tree, read downwards, with the ancient line behind each link and a mark on the ones they argue about.
38 families, 86 of 112 figures. The rest have no parent or child recorded here yet, which is a gap in this corpus rather than in the myth.
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Gaia bears Pontus alone, without any father, the same way she bears Ouranos, making him one of her earliest and only fatherless children.
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Apollodorus's variant parentage for Echidna; Hesiod instead makes her the daughter of Chrysaor and the Oceanid Callirhoe.
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Hesiod names Orthus, Echidna's own son by Typhon, as the father. The underlying Greek text is genuinely ambiguous about whether Echidna or the Chimera is the mother meant in this passage.
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Mnemosyne is one of the twelve Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia.
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Phoebe is one of the twelve Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia.
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Ouranos and Gaia are the parents of all twelve original Titans, including Tethys.
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Ouranos and Gaia are the parents of all twelve original Titans, including Theia.
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Ouranos and Gaia are the parents of all twelve original Titans, including Themis.
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Coeus is one of the twelve Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia.
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Coeus and his sister-wife Phoebe are Leto's parents.
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Hyperion is one of the twelve Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia.
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Hyperion and Theia are the parents of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
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Eos and the Titan Astraeus are the parents of the North Wind Boreas.
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Eos and the Titan Astraeus are the parents of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus.
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Homer names Circe's mother as the Oceanid Perse, and names her brother as Aeetes, keeper of the Golden Fleece.
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Iapetus is one of the twelve Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia.
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Their mother is Clymene, an Oceanid; Epimetheus later accepts Pandora despite his brother Prometheus's warning.
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Their mother is Clymene, an Oceanid; Prometheus is later chained and preyed upon by an eagle for stealing fire for mankind.
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Their mother is Clymene, an Oceanid; Atlas is later condemned to hold up the sky for his role in the Titans' war against Zeus.
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Kronos swallowed each child at birth; Zeus alone escaped and later forced the others back up.
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Hesiod has Hera bear Hephaestus alone, without Zeus, in answer to the birth of Athena. Later sources instead make him the son of both.
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Poseidon's grievance for his blinded son drives the wanderings of Odysseus.
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Disputed parentage. Some sources name Aigeus of Athens as the father; Aigeus is not yet in the corpus.
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Hesiod names Triton as the son born of Amphitrite and Poseidon, living with both parents in their golden undersea palace.
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Homer's Iliad names Dione as Aphrodite's mother, contested by Hesiod's sea-foam birth story.
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Hesiod's Theogony gives Eros no parents at all; this later tradition, followed by Apollonius and most poets after Hesiod, makes him Aphrodite's son instead.
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Hesiod's Theogony lists Eileithyia alongside Ares and Hebe among Hera's offspring by Zeus.
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Apollo fathers Asclepius with the mortal Coronis, then rescues the infant from her funeral pyre after having her killed for taking another lover.
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The Homeric Hymn to Pan names Hermes as the father, with Pan's own page noting a separate ancient tradition around his mother's identity.
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Zeus swallowed Metis while she carried Athena; the birth from his head is told by later authors.
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Semele died before the birth; Zeus carried the child to term himself.
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Oceanus is one of the twelve Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia.
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Their mother is Tethys; Hesiod names Metis among the eldest of the three thousand Oceanid daughters.
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Hesiod says Pontus fathers Nereus and his four siblings "being mated with Earth," naming Gaia as co-parent alongside Pontus for this whole generation of sea gods.
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Hesiod's catalogue of the fifty Nereids names Amphitrite among Nereus and Doris's daughters directly, before her later marriage to Poseidon makes her queen of the sea.
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Hesiod's catalogue of the fifty sea-nymphs born to Nereus and Doris names Thetis among them directly, well before her own famous marriage to the mortal Peleus.
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Thetis and the mortal Peleus are the parents of Achilles, whom Thetis tries and fails to make fully immortal.
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Hesiod names Night as coming directly from Chaos, alongside her brother Erebus.
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Hypnos is born to Night with no father named, alongside his twin brother Thanatos.
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Hesiod's Theogony names Nemesis among the children Night bears entirely alone, with no father, born specifically to afflict mortal men.
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Thanatos is born to Night with no father named, alongside his twin brother Hypnos.
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Roman poets keep the mother's Greek name, Semele, unchanged - unlike most other Roman genealogy, which fully renames the Greek pantheon.
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Cicero's own passage catalogues this as one of several rival 'Dianas' ancient writers named, not a single settled genealogy. Diana's distinct Roman identity - the Aventine and Nemi cults - predates and stands alongside this Jupiter-daughter tradition rather than depending on it.
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Mother was Maia, one of the Pleiades; no separate Roman entity exists yet for her, matching the Greek page's own treatment of Maia.
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Mirrors the Greek myth of Athena born fully armed from Zeus's head. Cicero's own passage catalogues several rival 'Minervas' ancient sources named, showing this was the best-known version rather than the only one.
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Ovid's Fasti gives Mars a distinctly Roman origin: Juno conceives him alone, using a fertility flower Flora gives her, after Jupiter fathers Minerva without a mother. This differs from the joint Zeus-and-Hera parentage assumed for the Greek Ares under interpretatio romana, and no surviving Roman-named source states that joint parentage explicitly.
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An alternate tradition holds that Juno conceived Vulcan without a father, jealous after Jupiter bore Minerva alone - the same parthenogenesis motif Greek myth assigns to Hera and Hephaestus.
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Pasiphaë's union with this same bull, sent by Poseidon and later captured by Heracles as his seventh labor, produced the Minotaur.
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Hesiod's Theogony names Nike as one of four children the Titan Pallas fathers on Styx, alongside Zelus, Kratos, and Bia.
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