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| Early Greek writer who was considered the first to give literary expression to an explanation of how the gods, the universe, and humankind came into being. Wrote "Theogony" and "Works and Days". |
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| One of Hesiod's works. Presents the genealogical scheme of Greek mythology. |
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| Adds significant detail to the information in Theogony. |
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| a "yawning void" that was present before all else. All else came from Chaos. |
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| The Earth. Mother goddess figure. Came out of Chaos. Creates Uranus (the sky) and Pontus (the sea). Has numerous children with Uranus. |
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| erotic desire. cupid-esque. Caused all things to mingle and brought about all procreation. |
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| The sky. Created by Gaia. Mates with Gaia and has numerous children. Locks all of his children in the Earth. Gets castrated by son Cronus. His blood falls on the earth and produces giants, nymphs, Erinyes. genitals + sea = Aphrodite. |
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| 12 of Gaia + Uranus' children. Their first children. Cronus is most wily and important. Oceanus mates with Tethis. Hyperion (sun god) mates with Theia |
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| A titan. A "river" that flowed around limits of Earth. Mated with Tethys and gave birth to the Oceanids (water spirits) |
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| Son of Hyperion and Theia. Son god. Controls rising and setting of sun in his chariot. |
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| Daughter of Hyperion and Theia. moon goddess. |
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| Daughter of Hyperion and Theia. dawn goddess. |
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| shepherd who Selene was in love with. Put into a state of permanent sleep and youth by Zeus. |
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| Lover of Helius. Eastern princess. daughter of persian king. father killed her for sleeping with Helius, and Helius made a frankincense tree grow from his corpse. |
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| Lover of Eos. Zeus gives him immortality at Eos' request. However, Tithonus still physically ages. Eos stops being his lover when he gets grey hairs but still takes care of him. Eventually turns into a grasshopper or cicada. |
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| son of Helius with his mistress Clymene. Phaethon requested to drive the sun chariot for one day, lost control, burned Gaia, and was struck down by Jupiter (Zeus). |
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| an Oceanid. jealous lover of Helius who turned into a sun-flower. |
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| Titan son of Gaia and Uranus. Castrated Uranus with Gaia's help. Overthrew the father. Throw's Uranus' genitals into the sea. Eats all his children (except Zeus). |
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| Titan. Sister and mate of Cronus. Gave birth to Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Zeus. With help of Gaia, tricks Cronus into eating a rock and saves Zeus. |
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| the darkness beneath the earth. used commonly as a prison. |
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