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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos
In Greek mythology, Chios (/ ˈ k aɪ. ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Χίος) may refer to two possible eponyms of the island of Chios: Chios, one of the Oceanids as a daughter of the Titan Oceanus possibly by his sister-wife, Tethys. [1] Chios, son of Poseidon and an unnamed Chian nymph.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Giovanni Boccaccio Genealogia deorum gentilium, 1532. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose from 1360 onwards by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio.
In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
The principal gods of the Greek pantheon were the twelve Olympians, [30] who lived on Mount Olympus, [31] and were connected to each other as part of a single family. [32] Zeus was the chief god of the pantheon, though Athena and Apollo were honoured in a greater number of sanctuaries in major cities, and Dionysus is the deity who has received ...
Below are family trees of the Euthydemid, Eucratid, and Menanderid dynasties. [1] [2] [3] The Greek connection to the Qin emperors of China is shown below, and with this connection (and with Chandragupta Maurya's marriage to Seleukos's daughter, see Eucratids below), the ancient kings of Persia, India, Greece, and China, oddly enough, are all related.
The Titans were the previous generation, and family of gods, whom the Olympians had to overthrow, and banish from the upper world, in order to become the ruling pantheon of Greek gods. For Hesiod, possibly in order to match the twelve Olympian gods, there were twelve Titans: six males and six females, with some of Hesiod's names perhaps being ...