Genealogy of the Gods
In the very beginning, this is all there was.
What is Chaos?
He fathered 50 lovely sea-nymphs.
Who is Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea?
A term referring to myths about the origins of the universe.
What is "cosmogeny"?
This Titan castrated his father with a sickle made of adamant.
Who was Kronos?
Tradition locates this mountain in northern Greece as place where the gods live.
What is Mount Olympus?
Gaia produced this "permanent, matching covering for herself", and with whom she had intercourse.
Who is Ouranos (Sky)?
She was a nymph above the waist but a serpent below it.
Who is Echidna?
A term referring to myths about the origins of the gods.
What is "theogony"?
He was tricked into eating a swaddled stone rather than his youngest child.
Who is Kronos?
Hermes was born in a cave in this mountain in Arcadia.
What is Mount Kyllene?
These two offspring of Gaia and Ouranos were the parents of the gods.
Who are Kronos and Rheia?
She is the most famous Gorgons, famous for her icy stare and serpentine hair.
Who is Medusa?
This Titan is the "great river" that encircles the earth.
Who is Okeanos?
Zeus swallowed this god, his first wife, which meant that the child she was carrying ended up being born from his forehead.
Who is Metis?
The titan Leto was pursued by Hera and prevented from finding a place to give birth until she reached this low-lying island.
What is Delos?
These twin gods were born to Leto, fathered by Zeus.
Who are Artemis and Apollo?
These creatures are depicted as birds with the face of a woman. Of them, Virgil said: "abominable their droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger insatiable."
Who are harpies?
These one-eyed Titans are forgers of thunderbolts.
Who are the Cyclopes?
As a fetus, this god spent the last part of his development sewn into the thigh of Zeus.
Who is Dionysus?
This papyrus, named after the town in Macedonia where it was discovered in 1962, presents an alternative cosmogeny and anthropogeny.
What is the Derveni Papyrus?
This important Titan helped mankind, and angered Zeus, by giving humans fire.
Who is Prometheus?
A race of great strength and aggression, they were depicted as huge and shaggy-haired.
Who were the Giants?
Among his grim progeny were Doom, Death, Blame and Misery.
Who is Night?
This god stole 50 of Apollo's cattle from their pasture and made the beasts walk backward to confuse his pursuers.
Who is Hermes?
Defeated, the Titans were banished to the land of Tartaros which, some said, exists under this volcanic Sicilian mountain.