The Beginning of Things

A Lecture on Greek Mythology

HeavenFather Uranus

EarthMother Gaea

LightPhanes

Night

Nyx

LightPhanes

Night

Doom

DeathSleep

Dreams

Gaiety

Misery

Fraud

Old Age

Strife

Quarrels

Sorrow

ForgetfulnessHunger

Disease

Combat

Murder

Battles

Massacre

Lies

HeavenFather Uranus

EarthMother Gaea

Brontes (Thunderer)

Steropes (Lightener)Arges (Shiner)

Cottos

GyasBriareos

Cyclopes Hecatoncheires

Coeus Iapetus Cronus Oceanus Crius Hyperion

Theia Phoebe Mnemosyne Themis Tethys Rhea

OceanusCronusIapetus TethysThemis HyperionPhoebeMnemosyne Crius Rhea TheiaCoeus

Zeus

Poseidon

Hades

Demeter

Hera

Hestia

3000Sons

3000Daughters

Metis

Tyche

Styx

Helios

Selene

Eos

Atlas

Menoetius

Prometheus

Epimetheus

Leto

Asteria

Eurybia

Pallas

Astraeus

Perses

Zeus

+ Hera

The Divine Consorts of Zeus

+ Demeter

+ Dione

+ Eurynome

+ Leto

+ Maia

+ Metis

+ Themis

+ Mnemosyne

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Ares, Eileithyia, Hebe, and Hephaestus

Persephone

Aphrodite

Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia

Apollo and Artemis

Hermes

Athena

Horae and the Fates: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia,

Urania, and Thalia

+ Semele

The Mortal Consorts of Zeus

+ Alcmene

+ Antiope

+ Callisto

+ Danae

+ Aegina

+ Electra

+ Europa

+ Io

= Dionysus

= Heracles (Hercules)

= Amphion and Zethus

= Perseus

= Arcas

= Aeacus

= Dardanus, Harmonia, and Lasion

= Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon

= Epaphus

+ Laodamia = Sarpedone

+ Leda

+ Niobe

+ Pluto

= Castor, Pollux, Clytemnestra, and Helen

= Argos and Pelasgus

= Tantalus+ Taygete = Lacedaemon

The 12 Olympians

Zeus

Hera

Poseidon

Ares

Hephaestus

Apollo

Aphrodite

Hermes

Athena

Hades

(Demeter)Hestia

(Dionysus)

Artemis

The Torture of Prometheus

Pandora’s Box