Drawn from Hesiod, Homer, the Homeric Hymns and Apollodorus, and cited line by line.
The gods, drawn as a family.
Greek divine genealogy is not a tree. It is a dense graph with births from severed flesh, children born out of their father’s head, sibling marriages, and ancient authors who flatly contradict each other. This site draws it as what it is, keeps both traditions where the sources disagree, and cites where each one comes from.
- 65
- divine figures, each cited
- 6
- generations, from the first gap
- 18
- unions, drawn as single joints
- 8
- variant traditions kept, not resolved
Where the sources disagree
Six figures whose entries show what the data model is for — and three cases where the ancient sources flatly contradict each other.
AphroditeἈφροδίτη
Older than the Olympians in one tradition and Zeus's daughter in another.
2 competing traditions of their birth
AthenaἈθηνᾶ
Born armed out of her father's head, and never once loses an argument.
One recorded tradition of their birth
HephaistosἭφαιστος
The only Olympian who works, and the only one thrown out of heaven twice.
2 competing traditions of their birth
PersephoneΠερσεφόνη
Taken as a girl, returned as a queen, and no longer entirely her mother's.
One recorded tradition of their birth
HekateἙκάτη
Honoured by Zeus above every other god, and worshipped at the doorstep.
One recorded tradition of their birth
PrometheusΠρομηθεύς
Stole fire in a fennel stalk and paid for it every day for thirty thousand years.
One recorded tradition of their birth