--- title: "Greek Gods Family Tree, with Sources | Myth Marsh" description: "Interactive Greek gods family tree: parents, siblings, consorts and children of Zeus, Hera, the Titans and heroes, each variant cited to Hesiod and Homer." url: https://mythmarsh.me/ --- Hesiod · Homer · Apollodorus # Greek gods family tree Pick a god, Titan or hero to see parents, siblings, consorts and children. Where the ancient sources disagree, each version is shown with the passage it comes from. ## How to read the tree The tree shows one figure at a time. **Parents** sit above, **siblings** and **consorts** beside, and **children** below, grouped by the other parent. Solid plaques are gods and other immortals; outlined ones are mortals; a dashed box is a parent the sources name but who has no entry here. Choose any name to move the tree to it. Greek myths survive in many versions, so a figure can have more than one set of parents. Hesiod's *Theogony* has Aphrodite grow from the sea-foam around the severed genitals of Uranus, while the *Iliad* makes her the daughter of Zeus and Dione; Hesiod has Hera bear Hephaestus alone, while in the *Odyssey* he blames “my two parents”. Each version gets its own box marked “version 1 of 2”, and every link in the tree carries the passages it rests on. The short references link to free translations at the Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), where you can read the lines in context. ## Sources The tree follows the oldest full accounts: Hesiod (around 700 BC), the Homeric poems and Hymns, and the *Library* of Apollodorus (probably first or second century AD), with a few tragedies and Latin poets where they disagree or give the Roman name. It leaves out many minor and later family lines, so an empty “children” box means none are included here, not that no ancient writer ever named any. The Roman names in the side panel are the gods the Romans identified with the Greek ones. Those matches were never exact; the [Greek and Roman name converter](https://mythmarsh.me/greek-roman-names/) explains why. Line numbers follow the editions linked. Translations: Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914); Iliad and Odyssey, A. T. Murray (1924 and 1919); Apollodorus, J. G. Frazer (1921), all at the Perseus Digital Library. ### Greek texts - [Hesiod, Theogony](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0130:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Hesiod, Works and Days](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0132:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homer, Iliad](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134:book=1:card=1), tr. A. T. Murray (1924), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homer, Odyssey](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136:book=1:card=1), tr. A. T. Murray (1919), Perseus Digital Library. - [Apollodorus, Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=1:chapter=1:section=1), tr. J. G. Frazer (1921), Perseus Digital Library. - [Aeschylus, Eumenides](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0006:card=1), tr. H. W. Smyth (1926), Perseus Digital Library. - [Prometheus Bound (attributed to Aeschylus)](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0010:card=1), tr. H. W. Smyth (1926), Perseus Digital Library. - [Herodotus, Histories](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=1:chapter=1:section=1), tr. A. D. Godley (1920), Perseus Digital Library. - [Aristophanes, Birds](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0026:card=1), anonymous translation in The Complete Greek Drama, ed. W. J. Oates and E. O'Neill Jr. (1938), Perseus Digital Library. - [Pausanias, Description of Greece](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160:book=1:chapter=1:section=1), tr. W. H. S. Jones (1918), Perseus Digital Library. - [Plato, Cratylus](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0172:text=Crat.:section=383a), tr. H. N. Fowler (1926), Perseus Digital Library. - [Euripides, Bacchae](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0092:card=1), tr. T. A. Buckley (1850), Perseus Digital Library. - [Euripides, Medea](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0114:card=1), tr. E. P. Coleridge (1906), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 2, to Demeter](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=2:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 3, to Apollo](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=3:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 4, to Hermes](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=4:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 5, to Aphrodite](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=5:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 7, to Dionysus](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=7:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 16, to Asclepius](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=16:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 19, to Pan](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=19:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 20, to Hephaestus](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=20:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 22, to Poseidon](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=22:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 26, to Dionysus](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=26:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 27, to Artemis](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=27:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 28, to Athena](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=28:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 29, to Hestia](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=29:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 30, to Earth](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=30:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 31, to Helios](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=31:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. - [Homeric Hymn 32, to Selene](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=32:card=1), tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), Perseus Digital Library. ### Latin texts - [Ovid, Metamorphoses](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028:book=1:card=1), Latin text with Brookes More's translation (1922), Perseus Digital Library. - [Ovid, Fasti](https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi007.perseus-lat2:1.1/), Latin text, Scaife reader (Perseus). - [Virgil, Aeneid](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055:book=1:card=1), Latin text, Perseus Digital Library. - [Virgil, Eclogues](https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi001.perseus-lat2:1.1/), Latin text, Scaife reader (Perseus). - [Catullus, Poems](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0003:poem=1), Latin text, Perseus Digital Library. - [Horace, Odes](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0025:book=1:poem=1), Latin text with John Conington's translation (1882), Perseus Digital Library. - [Livy, History of Rome](https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.perseus-lat2:1.1.1/), Latin text, Scaife reader (Perseus). - [Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0037:book=1:section=1), Latin text, Perseus Digital Library. ## More from the marsh Find a god, match a name, walk the nine worlds. - [God finder](https://mythmarsh.me/god-finder/): Search Greek, Roman and Norse gods by domain or symbol: sea, war, harvest, owl, thunderbolt. - [Greek ↔ Roman names](https://mythmarsh.me/greek-roman-names/): Zeus to Jupiter and back, with Etruscan names where they are well attested, and the caveats. - [Norse nine worlds](https://mythmarsh.me/norse-nine-worlds/): Yggdrasil and the worlds around it, who lives in each, and the eddic passages that name them. - [Weekday and month names](https://mythmarsh.me/weekday-and-month-names/): Which gods and planets the English days and months are named after, with Latin and other languages. - [Odyssey episode guide](https://mythmarsh.me/odyssey-episode-guide/): Odysseus's adventures in order with the book for each, and a reading checklist that remembers your place. ## Recommended Two free services for readers and students online. 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[Try WebTraceCheck](https://webtracecheck.com/) ## Questions **Who were Zeus's parents?** Cronus and Rhea, in Hesiod's Theogony (lines 453–458) and in the Iliad, where Poseidon says that he, Zeus and Hades are three brothers born to Cronus and Rhea (15.187–188). The sources disagree about the order of birth: Hesiod makes Zeus the youngest, the Iliad calls him the elder born. **Why does Aphrodite have two sets of parents?** Because the two oldest sources tell different stories. In Hesiod's Theogony she grows from the foam around the severed genitals of Uranus (lines 188–200); in Homer's Iliad she runs to “her mother Dione” and is called a daughter of Zeus (5.370–371). Apollodorus follows Homer. The tree shows both, each with its passage. **Who are the twelve Olympians?** Ancient lists of “the twelve gods” differ, and modern lists differ too, most often over Hestia and Dionysus. Plato's Phaedrus (247a) has Zeus lead the gods in eleven companies while Hestia stays at home. The tree groups Zeus's brothers and sisters and his best-known children together under “Olympians and Hades”, since Hades lived below the earth.