Greek Gods: Origins, simplified


                 Chaos
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       Uranus (sky) = Gaea (Earth)
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 Cronus (Saturn) = Rhea      [TITANS]
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 Poseidon  Hades  Zeus       [OLYMPIANS]
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                   Athena

        Antigone's genealogy

  • Antigone [an-tig'o-nee], "contrary birth" This daughter of Oedipus and sister of Polynices and Eteocles buried Polynices despite Creon's decree that whoever buried him should be killed. Creon confined her to a sealed cave, where she would die-she hanged herself; Haemon, Creon's son, who was engaged to Antigone, killed himself with his sword; Creon's wife, Eurydice, then took her own life (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes; Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone; Euripides, Phoenician Women; Apollodorus 3.5.8-9, 3.7.1; Hyginus, Fabulae 72). Family Tree 19. (Oxford)
    • Original 12 Olympian Gods
    GreekRomanRealm
    Zeus Jupiter sky
    Poseidon Neptunesea
    Hades Plutounderworld
    Hestia*Vestiahearth
    HeraJuno wife of Zeus
    Ares Marswar
    AthenaMinervawisdom
    Apollosunsun, poetry
    AphroditeVenuslove
    Hermes Mercurytravel
    Artemis Diana moon, hunt
    HephaestusVulcanblacksmith
    Notes:
    *Replaced by Dionysus (Bacchus), god of wine
    Aphrodite is married to Hephestus
    Apollo and Aretemis are twins

    Greek and Cretan Gods:

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