The Greek gods family tree.
The Greek gods family tree begins with the first cosmic beings, continues through the , and reaches and the . It is a story of generations, marriages, rivalries, and power changing hands. Our interactive atlas lets you explore 31 figures and follow those connections one family at a time.
These bands show mythic succession, not dates or direct parentage. Follow the atlas lines or the table for individual relationships.
Explore the interactive family treeFirst, a world: Chaos, Gaia, and Uranus
In ’s , comes first; , , and follow. Their order of appearance does not make them all children of Chaos. Gaia gives birth to , the sky, and later has children with him. , the night, belongs to another branch arising from Chaos. The first generation is made of the spaces and forces that allow a world to exist.
Then, the Titans: the family before Olympus
and are the parents of the first twelve . overthrows his father and rules with . Their children are , , , , , and . A prophecy makes Cronus swallow his children; Rhea saves Zeus by giving Cronus a wrapped stone instead. Other Titan branches lead to figures such as , , , and .
Zeus and the Olympian generation
defeats the older divine order with help from his allies. His family links the to younger gods: and are his children with , with , and with . ’s birth involves and Zeus, while ancient poets offer more than one for . These are relationships in ancient stories, not a single consistent biological record.
How to read the chart
In the atlas, a parentage line follows the direction from parent to child. A union is shown separately. The cosmic-emergence connection between and is marked differently because does not call Gaia a child of Chaos. Select a portrait and choose “Isolate their connections” to explore its immediate family. The table below provides the same parentage information as readable links.
Why family trees disagree
Greek mythology has many surviving voices. , Homeric poetry, local traditions, and later mythographers do not always give a figure the same parents. This edition follows Hesiod where possible and identifies other traditions in profiles and source notes. The chart includes the figures with full profiles here; it is not a claim to contain every Greek deity or every relationship.
Parents and children in this atlas
Sources and further reading
This is a modern guide. Read the ancient accounts and compare their traditions.