Greek Gods Family Tree
The Greek mythology family tree as one tree, read downwards from Gaia through the Titans to Zeus, the Olympians and the heroes, with the ancient line behind each link and a mark on the ones the sources argue about. Or go straight to Zeus and his family.
58 families, 128 of 191 figures. The rest have no parent or child recorded here yet, which is a gap in this corpus rather than in the myth.
Zeus and the Olympians
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Zeus comes to Leda in the form of a swan, and Helen is said to be born of that union, sometimes hatched from an egg.
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Pausanias reports the parentage as legend and says he saw this Tantalus's grave on Mount Sipylus, apart from a later Tantalus buried at Argos.
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Children with Alcmene
Children with Danaë
Children with Demeter
Children with Dione
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Homer's Iliad names Dione as Aphrodite's mother, contested by Hesiod's sea-foam birth story.
Children with Hera
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Hesiod's Theogony lists Eileithyia alongside Ares and Hebe among Hera's offspring by Zeus.
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Children with Leto
Children with Maia
Children with Metis
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Zeus swallowed Metis while she carried Athena; the birth from his head is told by later authors.
Children with Semele
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Semele died before the birth; Zeus carried the child to term himself.
The full tree, from Gaia
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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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Homer names Atlas as her father twice (Odyssey 1.52, 7.245); Hesiod's Theogony instead lists a Calypso among the Oceanids.
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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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Hesiod names Triton as the son born of Amphitrite and Poseidon, living with both parents in their golden undersea palace.
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Zeus comes to Leda in the form of a swan, and Helen is said to be born of that union, sometimes hatched from an egg.
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Pausanias reports the parentage as legend and says he saw this Tantalus's grave on Mount Sipylus, apart from a later Tantalus buried at Argos.
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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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Apollodorus names Aphrodite with Ares for the bride Zeus gave Cadmus. Diodorus Siculus disagrees.
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Aphrodite bore Aeneas to the Trojan prince Anchises and named him for the grief she felt at sharing a mortal's bed.
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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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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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Ovid says Ceres was born of Ops from Saturn's seed. Ennius, in Lactantius, instead makes Ceres Ops's sister.
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Ovid names Ops as mother of Juno, Ceres and Vesta by Saturn's seed.
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Ovid names Ops as mother of Juno, Ceres and Vesta by Saturn's seed.
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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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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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Livy reports the paternity of the twins as Rhea Silvia's own claim, made either from belief or to lessen her fault. In Ovid's Fasti (5.465) the ghost of Remus still calls the war god his father.
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Livy reports the paternity as Rhea Silvia's own claim, made either from belief or to lessen her fault, and Plutarch records a rumour that Amulius in armour was the real father.
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In Ennius's Euhemerus, as quoted by Lactantius, Saturn takes Ops as wife and the twins Jupiter and Juno are born; Jupiter is hidden and given to Vesta to raise.
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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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In Livy, Evander greets the stranger as Hercules and foretells his place among the gods.
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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 Ceres searches the whole earth for her daughter Proserpina after the abduction.
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The prologue of Euripides's Iphigenia in Tauris traces the line from Pelops down to the two brothers who led the Greeks to Troy.
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Euripides's Iphigenia in Tauris opens by tracing Agamemnon's line back through Pelops, then tells of the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter.
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Electra names her father and her siblings in the prologue of Euripides's Orestes. Homer's Iliad lists Agamemnon's daughters without her name.
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Iphigenia traces her own line from Tantalus through Pelops and Atreus in the prologue of Euripides's Iphigenia in Tauris. Homer's Iliad lists Agamemnon's daughters without her name.
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Zeus opens Homer's Odyssey by recalling that Orestes took vengeance for his father on Aegisthus once he came to manhood.
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Hesiod names Night as coming directly from Chaos, alongside her brother Erebus.
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Hesiod's Theogony lists Strife among the children Night bears alone.
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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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Only Apollodorus makes Calypso the mother of Latinus by Odysseus. Hesiod's Theogony gives Calypso two other sons, Nausithous and Nausinous, and makes Circe the mother of Latinus.
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Telemachus is Odysseus's only son by Penelope in Homer; he says Laertes, Odysseus and he were each an only son.
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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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Her mother, in Apollodorus, is Eurydice, a daughter of Lacedaemon.
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Hesiod names Semele among the children Harmonia bore to Cadmus.
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At Hector's death Hecuba leads the Trojan women's lament, calling him her boast night and day in the city.
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Before Paris was born, Hecuba dreamed she brought forth a firebrand that burned the city, and the baby was exposed on Mount Ida.
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Peleus is the mortal father of Achilles; he interrupts Thetis's attempt to make the child immortal and brings him to Chiron to be raised.
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Apollodorus's Library says Achilles, hidden at the court of Lycomedes on Scyros, fathered a son by the king's daughter Deidamia, named Pyrrhus and later called Neoptolemus.
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Virgil has Venus address Cupid as her son and ask him to help his brother Aeneas.
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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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Apollodorus names Antigone and Ismene as daughters of Oedipus; Pausanias gives their mother as Euryganeia rather than Jocasta.
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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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