The Structure of Hesiod's Theogony

Proemium: Hymn to the Muses of Helicon (1 - 104)

1. Chaos and The First Gods (105 - 122)
   • Chaos: "Chasm" (116)
   • Gaia or Gaea: "Earth" (116)
   • Tartaros or Tartarus (119)
   • Eros: "Love" (120)
   • Erebos or Erebus: "Gloom" (123)
   • Nyx: "Night" (123)

2. The Second Generation: Children of the First Gods
   • Children of Night
     • (fathered by Erebos )
       Aither or Ether: "Brightness" (125)
       Hemere or Hemera: "Day" (125)
     • (produced asexually: 211 - 232)
   • Children of Gaia :
     1. First Brood (produced asexually)
        Ouranos or Uranus: "Sky" (126)
        Mountains (129)
        Pontos or Pontus: "Sea" (131)
     2. Second Brood (Children of Gaia and Ouranos )
        • The Titans
          Okeanos or Oceanus: "Ocean" (133)
          Koios or Coeus (134)
          Kreios or Crius (134)
          Hyperion (134)
          Iapetos or Iapetus (134)
          Theia or Thea: "Goddess" (135)
          Rheia or Rhea (135)
          Themis: "Custom" (135)
          Mnemosyne: "Memory" (135)
          Phoibe or Phoebe (163)
          Tethys (136)
          Kronos or Cronus (137)
        • The Kyklopes (139 - 146)
          Brontes: "Thunder" (140)
          Steropes: "Lightning" (140)
          Arges: "Flash" (140)
        • The Hekatonkheires or Hecatonchires: "Hundred-Handers" (147 - 153)
          Kottos or Cottus (149)
          Briareos or Briareus (149)
          Gyges (149)
     3. Third Brood, born through the Castration of Ouranos (154 - 210)
        • from the Drops of Blood that Fell from Ouranos' Genitals onto Gaia (178 - 187)
          Erinyes: "Furies" (185)
          Gigantes: "Giants" (185)
          Ash Tree Nymphs (187)
        • from Ouranos' Genitals when they Fell into Pontos :
          Aphrodite (188 - 206)
     4. Fourth Brood, Children of Gaia and Pontos (237 -239)
     5. Fifth (and Last) Brood, Children of Gaia and Tartaros :
        Typhoeus (820)
   • The Children of Night (part 2)
     • fathered by Erebos: 124 - 125)
     • (produced asexually: 211 - 232)

3. The Line of Pontos
   • Children of Pontos produced asexually
     1. Nereus (233 - 236)
        • Children of Nereus (240 - 264)
   • Children of Gaia (Fourth Brood) and Pontos (237 - 239)
     2. Thaumas: "Wonderous" (237)
     3. Phorkys (238)
     4. Keto or Ceto (238)
     5. Eurybie or Eurybia: "Broad Power" (239)
        • Grandchildren of Pontos
          1. Children of Nereus and Doris
             catalog of fifty Nereids (240 - 264)
          2. Children of Thaumas and Elektra
             Iris "Rainbow" (265)
             The Harpies: Aello and Okypete (267 -269)
          3. Children of Phorkys and Keto (270 - 335)
             The Graiai
             Pemphredo
             Enyo
             The Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medousa (274 - 277)
             Echidna (295 - 305)
             Snake that guards the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides (333 - 335)
             • Children of Medousa and Poseidon :
               Chrysaor
               Pegasus
               Children of Chrysaor and Kallirhoe
               Geryones
             Echidna (295 - 305)
             Children of Echidna and Typhaon
             Orthos
             Kerberos or Cerberus (310 - 312)
             Hydra of Lerna (313 - 318)
             Chimaira or Chimaera (319 - 25)
             Children of Chimaera and Orthos
             Sphinx
             Lion of Nemea
             Snake that guards the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides (333 - 335)

4. Children of the Titans (337 - )
   • Line of Okeanos and Thetys (337 - 370)
   • Line of Hyperion and Theia (371 - )
   • Line of Kreios and Eurybia : Astraios and Pallas
     • Children of Astraios and Eos
     • Children of Styx and Pallas
   • line of Phoibe and Koios (404 - )
     • Leto
     • Asteria
     • Hekate
   • Line of Rhea and Kronos: The Elder Olympians
     • Hestia
     • Demeter
     • Hera
     • Hades
     • Poseidon
     • Zeus
   • Line of Iapetos and Klymene (506 - )
     • Atlas
     • Menoitios
     • Prometheus
     • Epimetheus

5. Challenges to Zeus
   • Prometheus , Sacrifice, Theft of Fire, Pandora ( - 616)
   • Titanomachy (617 - 820)
   • Children of Gaia and Tartaros : Typhoeus (820 - 886)

6. Children of the Olympians (886 - )
   • Children of Zeus and Metis :
     Tritongeneia (Athena) and an unborn male child (886 - 900)
   • Children of Zeus and Themis :
     Horai or Horae: "Seasons"
     Lawfulness Justice Peace Fates
     • Klotho or Clotho
     • Lachesis
     • Atropos
   • Children of Zeus and Eurynome :
     Graces
     • Aglaia or Aglaea
     • Euphrosyne
     • Thalia
   • Children of Zeus and Demeter :
     Persephone
   • Children of Zeus and Mnemosyne
   • Children of Zeus and Leto
   • Children of Zeus and Hera
   • Birth of Athena (924)
   • Birth of Hephaistos to Hera (928)
   • Children of Poseidon and Amphitrite : Triton (930 - 933)
   • Children of Ares and Aphrodite (934 - 937)
   • Children of Zeus and Maia : Hermes (935 - 940)
   • Children of Zeus and Semele : Dionysos or Dionysus (941 - 942)
   • Children of Zeus and Alkmene : Herakles (943 - 944)

7. Goddesses who bore Children to Mortal Men (965 - 1020)

8. Mortal Women who bore Children to Gods (1021 ff.: the Catalog of Women or Eoiai

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