The Gods
65 figures
ChaosΧάος
The gap that came first, before there was anywhere to be.
Generation 0 — Night
ErebosἜρεβος
The darkness itself, and the road the dead take through it.
Generation 0 — Night
ErosἜρως
The oldest god in Hesiod and the youngest one in every later poem.
Generation 0 — Love
GaiaΓαῖα
The ground, and the one who keeps overthrowing whoever sits on it.
Generation 0 — Harvest
NyxΝύξ
Night, and the mother of nearly everything nobody wants to meet.
Generation 0 — Night
OuranosΟὐρανός
The sky his mother made to cover her, and then had cut down.
Generation 0 — Sky
PontosΠόντος
The sea itself, long before Poseidon claimed it.
Generation 0 — Sea
TartarosΤάρταρος
The pit under the underworld, and the god who is that pit.
Generation 0 — Underworld
AphroditeἈφροδίτη
Older than the Olympians in one tradition and Zeus's daughter in another.
Generation 1 — Love
ErisἜρις
Not invited to the wedding, and got a ten-year war out of one apple.
Generation 1 — War
HyperionὙπερίων
Father of the sun, the moon and the dawn, and almost nothing else.
Generation 1 — Sun
HypnosὝπνος
Put Zeus to sleep twice and only got away with it because of his mother.
Generation 1 — Night
IapetosἸαπετός
Father of the four Titans who each got a different punishment.
Generation 1 — Fate
KoiosΚοῖος
Grandfather of Apollo and Artemis, and a name nobody can quite explain.
Generation 1 — Wisdom
KriosΚρῖος
A Titan known almost entirely through his sons.
Generation 1 — Sky
KronosΚρόνος
Cut down his father, then spent an age eating his own children to avoid the same.
Generation 1 — Harvest
MnemosyneΜνημοσύνη
Memory, and the mother of the reason any of this survived.
Generation 1 — Wisdom
NemesisΝέμεσις
Distributes what is deserved, which is rarely what anyone wants.
Generation 1 — Fate
NereusΝηρεύς
The old man of the sea, who cannot lie and will not hold still.
Generation 1 — Sea
OkeanosὨκεανός
The river running round the edge of the world, and the father of three thousand more.
Generation 1 — Sea
PhoibeΦοίβη
Held the Delphic oracle, and handed it to her grandson as a birthday gift.
Generation 1 — Fate
RheaῬέα
Handed her husband a stone and kept the child.
Generation 1 — Wild
TethysΤηθύς
Mother of every river and three thousand springs, and Hera's foster-mother.
Generation 1 — Sea
ThanatosΘάνατος
Has a heart of iron and no pity, and is the only god who takes nothing.
Generation 1 — Underworld