The Structure of Hesiod's Theogony
A glossary
containing many of the names featured here is available from Mythtext.
Proemium: Hymn to the Muses of Helicon (1 -
104)
- 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)
- 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 :
- First Brood (produced asexually)
Ouranos or
Uranus:
"Sky" (126)
Mountains (129)
Pontos or Pontus: "Sea" (131)
- 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)
- 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)
- Fourth Brood, Children of Gaia and Pontos (237 -239)
- Fifth (and Last) Brood, Children of Gaia and
Tartaros :
- The Children of Night (part 2)
- fathered by Erebos: 124 - 125)
-
(produced asexually: 211 - 232)
- The Line of Pontos
- Children of Pontos produced asexually
- Nereus (233 - 236)
-
Children of Gaia (Fourth Brood) and Pontos (237 - 239)
- Thaumas: "Wonderous" (237)
- Phorkys (238)
- Keto or Ceto (238)
- Eurybie or Eurybia: "Broad Power" (239)
- Grandchildren of Pontos
- Children of Nereus and Doris
catalog of fifty Nereids (240 - 264)
- Children of Thaumas and Elektra
Iris "Rainbow" (265)
The Harpies: Aello and Okypete (267 -269)
- Children of Phorkys and Keto
(270 - )
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)
- 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 - )
- Line of Rhea and Kronos: The Elder Olympians
- Hestia
- Demeter
- Hera
- Hades
- Poseidon
- Zeus
- Line of Iapetos and Klymene
(506 - )
- Atlas
- Menoitios
- Prometheus
- Epimetheus
- Challenges to Zeus
- 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)
- Goddesses who bore Children to Mortal Men (965 - 1020)
- Mortal Women who bore Children to Gods (1021 ff.: the Catalog
of Women or Eoiai
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