The Genealogies in Hesiod's Theogony
In this list, there are two divisions: 1) the children of Chaos and 2) the children of Earth (through union with Earth and Tartarus). There is no miscegenation between these two divisions.
It is clear that Hesiod says that Chaos was first, but when he says Earth is next, it is not clear whether Earth is next in time, and if so, what relation (if any) she has to Chaos. The same is true of Tartarus, but Heaven is clearly the offspring of Earth alone. Love is a special case, for it has no offspring (and no parents, like Chaos, Earth, and Tartarus), but its temporal place seems to be similar to the temporal place of Earth and Tartarus.
Once we get beyond Chaos in the first list, and beyond Earth in the second list, each indentation signifies a later generation, and being listed immediately under another being and indented one more time than that being signifies being born from that being. For example,
Some beings are the product of only one parent, others are the product of two parents (always a male and a female).
This list does not include all of the mortal-immortal unions and offspring that are recounted after about line 980 of the Theogony.
Chaos and its offspring
- Chaos
- Night
- Erebos (+Night)
- (offspring of Night alone)
- Doom
- Ker
- Death
- Sleep
- Dreams
- Blame
- Distress
- Hesperides
- Destinies
- Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos)
- Nemesis
- Deceit
- Friendship
- Age
- Strife (alone)
- Work
- Forgetfulness
- Famine
- Pains
- Battles
- Fights
- Murders
- Killings
- Quarrels
- Lies
- Deceits
- Disputes
- Lawlessness
- Ruin
- Oath
Earth and her offspring
- Earth
- Heaven (+Earth) (the first 12 are the Titans: i.e. all those listed before the Cyclopes)
- Oceanus
- Tethys (+Oceanus)
- Whirling rivers-Nile, Alpheus, Eridanus, Strymon, Meander, ...
- Daughters-including another Doris, and Electra and Clymene, Callirhoe, Dione, , Calypso, Pluto, Tyche, and Styx, and Acheloos (Heracles wrestles with him and breaks his horn in combat for Deianeira) who figure in other places
- Perseis (+Helios the sun)
- 3000 oceanids
- 3000 roaring rivers
- Eurynome (+Zeus)
- Graces (Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia)
- Metis (+Zeus)
- Kronos
- Rhea (+Kronos)
- Hestia
- Demeter (+Zeus)
- (Demeter + Iasion, a hero)
- Hades
- Zeus
- Hera (+Zeus)
- Hebe
- Ares (+Aphrodite)
- Terror
- Fear
- Harmonia (+Cadmus)
- Semele (+Zeus)
- Ino
- Agave
- Autonoe
- Polydorus
- Eileithyia
- Hera (alone)
- Poseidon (+Amphitrite)
- Koios
- Phoebe (+Koios)
- Leto (+Zeus)
- Asterie
- Hekate
- Kreius (+Eurybie: she is below, an offspring of Earth alone)
- Perses
- Astraeeus (+Eos)
- Zephyr
- Notos
- Boreas
- Eosphoros (Venus--planet)
- stars
- winds, Zephyrus and Boreas, Notus, Eosphorus
- Pallas (+Styx)
- Victory
- Glory
- Power
- Force
- all of whom are next to Zeus
- Iapetos (+Clymene)
- Atlas
- Menoitios (cast into Erebos)
- Prometheus
- Epimetheus
- Hyperion
- Theia (+Hyperion)
- Helios (sun)
- Selene (moon)
- Eos (Dawn) (+Tithonus)
- (Eos + Cephalus)
- Themis (+Zeus)
- Horae (Order, Peace, and Justice)
- Fates (Clotho, Atropos, and Lachesis)
- Mnemosyne (+Zeus)
- Cyclopes (Brontes and Steropes)
- Kottos
- Gyes
- Briareus
- drops from heaven's genitals
- heaven's genitals
- Aphrodite
- Desire and Eros--no parents, no offspring--just primal forces?
- (earth alone)
- long hills
- Pontus (alone)
- Nereus (+Doris)
- Protho
- Eukrante
- Amphitrite
- Thetis
- Galatea
- Doris
- ....50 Nereids in all
- Pontus (+Earth)
- Thaumas (+Electra, dtr. of Oceanus)
- Iris
- Harpies
- Aello
- Okypete
- Phorkys
- Ceto (+Phorkys)
- Graiae=Pamphredo and
- Enyo
- Gorgons=Sthenno Euryale, and
- Medusa (+Poseidon)
- (blood of Medusa turned into
- Chrysaor and Pegasus)
- Chrysaor and Calirhoe (daughter of Ocean) begat Geryon
- Echidna (+Typho)
- Orthos
- Cerberus
- Lerneaean Hydra
- (Echidna+ Orthus)
- Sphinx
- Nemean lion
- Snake who guards the apples of gold in the earth
- Eurybie
- Tartarus (+Earth)
- Love