1. FAMILY TREE OF THE GREEK GODS and GODDESSES
according to Hesiod’s Theogony (circa 700 B.C.E.)
I) Chaos
Earth Tartara Eros Night Erebos
Sky (Ouranos) Mountains Sea Death Fates Intercourse Eris (“Discord”)
Famine Wars Quarrels ‘Bad Government’
II) Earth --- Sky
12 Titans (6 male, 6 female) 3 Cyclops The 3 100-Arms
including Ocean, Mnemosyne (“Memory”),
Themis (“Law”), Rhea, Cronus
III) Rhea --- Cronus
Hestia Demeter Hera Hades Poseidon Zeus
(Vesta) (Ceres) (Juno) (Pluto) (Neptune) (Jupiter)
Zeus --- Metis (“Wisdom”) Zeus --- Semele
Athena Dionysus
Zeus --- Leto Zeus --- Demeter Zeus --- Hera Zeus --- Maia Zeus --- Themis
Apollo Artemis Persephone Ares Hermes ‘Good Government’
(Apollo) (Diana) (Proserpina) (Mars) (Mercury) Justice, Peace
The TWELVE Olympians:
* Athena * Apollo * Artemis * Ares * Hephaestus (born from Hera) * Hermes
* Zeus * Hera * Demeter * Poseidon * Aphrodite (born from Sky’s genitals or from Zeus)
Dionysus? Hestia? Hades?
Galen, Greek doctor circa 160 B.C.: “For Moses, God has only to will to bring matter into order,
and matter is ordered immediately. We (Greeks) do not think that way; we say that certain things
are impossible by nature and these God does not even attempt; he only chooses the best among
the things that come about” (On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body xi.14)