CREATION STORY
CHAOS
(EMPTINESS)
2
THREE PRIMODIAL DEITIES
3
GAEA (EARTH)
4
TARTARUS (UNDERWORLD)
5
EROS (LOVE)
6
CHAOS
AND GAEA
7
THE CHILDREN OF
CHAOS
Erebus and Nyx
8
EREBUS
(darkness) NYX
(night)
9
AETHER
(bright upper air)
HAMERA
(day)
❧ Moros (Fate) ❧ Oneoroi (Dreams)
❧ Black Ker (Doom) ❧ Geras (Old Age)
❧ Thanatos (Death) ❧ Oizus (Pain)
❧ Hypnos (Sleep) ❧ Nemesis (Revenge)
❧ Apate (Deceit) ❧ Eris (Strife)
❧ Philotes (Sexual Pleasure) ❧ Momos (Blame)
❧ Hesperides (the Daughters of the Evening)
THE CHILDREN OF GAEA
GAEA AND URANUS
13
GAEA AND
URANUS14
CYCLOPES
HECATONCHEIRES
12 TITANS
THE CASTRATION
OF URANUS
18
URANUS
was a cruel
husband
Gaea made a harpe, a great
adamant sickle, and tried to incite
her children to attack Uranus.
CRONUS
CRONUS REVENGE
21
22
GIANTS
NYMPHS
FURIES
APHRODITE
(Goddess of Beauty)
NEW RULER
CRONUS
28
CRONUS RHEA
6th Child
ZEUS
CRETE
THE RETURN OF
ZEUS
33
METIS
(goddess of wisdom)
THE
TITANOMACHY
39
THE
TITANOMACHY
40
ATLAS
(Titan’s Leader)
ATLAS
(Titan’s Leader)
Hold the universe
on his shoulder
ZUES
45
❖ The Olympian God of the
sky and the thunder.
❖ The King of all other
Gods and men.
❖ The chief figure in Greek
Mythology.
Credits
❧ Zeus had 26 children: Aeacus, Angelos,
Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena,
Dionysus, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Ersa, Hebe,
Helen of Troy, Harmonia, Hephaestus,
Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Nemesis, Pandia,
Persephone, Perseus, Rhadamanthus, The
Graces and The Horae.
ZUES WIVES
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❖ Metis was the first
wife of Zeus.
❖ Metis (goddess of
wisdom)
ATHENA
Goddess of war
Zeus wife
Themis
(Devine Justice)
gave birth to the:
❖Seasons, to Wise
Laws, to Human
Justice, to Peace,
and to the Fates
❖Zeus wife
Eurynome
(ocean nymph)
❖ Three Grace:
❖ Aglaia (Brightness)
❖ Euphrosyne (Joyfulness)
Thalia (Bloom)
❖Zeus wife
❖Demeter
❖(goddess of the
harvest)
❖Demeter
❖(goddess of the
harvest)
PERSEPHONE
Wife of HADES
Goddess queen of the underworld
NINE MUSES
❖Zeus wife
Titaness Mnemosyne
(memory)
❖Zeus wife
Leto
(goddess of
motherhood)
APOLLO AND ARTEMIS
The divine twins
Zeus permanent wife
HERA
(goddess of goddess
of marriage)
cuckoo
Zeus and Hera’s four children
• Hebe (the cupbearer to the gods)
• Ares (the god of war)
• Ilithyia (goddess of childbearing)
• Hephaestus (craftsman of the gods)
CREATION STORY
