SAGA / ENTER GREEK MYTHOLOGY

One myth.Many tellings.

Meet gods, characters and their relationships. Return to the sources and discover what changes between tellings.

Explore the characters

Read the myth. Follow its source.

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Meet the figures of myth

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Aphrodite

Hesiod describes emergence from sea foam; the Iliad identifies Zeus and Dione as parents. Keeping the sources separate avoids a misleading single family tree.

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Athena

Read the scene of Athena emerging from Zeus without merging every tradition.

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Artemis

Hymn 27 moves its goddess from the mountains to Apollo’s house.

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Poseidon

Hymn 22 invokes a god associated with shaking earth and helping ships.

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Where does Aphrodite come from?

Theogony · Hesiod

Emerges from sea foam associated with Ouranos

Theogony 188–206

Iliad · Homer

Named as a daughter of Zeus and Dione

Iliad 5.370–430

The relationship depends on the source tradition.

Compare the two versions

From earth to sky

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Continue through the cast, with relationships tied to their source versions.

Gaia

Gaia appears near the opening of Theogony and brings forth Ouranos before the narrative expands into the Titans’ genealogy.

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Ouranos

The sky born from Gaia, and a central figure in the narrative sequence preceding Aphrodite’s emergence.

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Kronos

Theogony connects Kronos to transitions between divine generations, as a son of Ouranos and father of Zeus.

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Rhea

Rhea links two generations in Theogony: child of Gaia and Ouranos, and mother of Zeus.

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Zeus

Theogony names Rhea and Kronos as parents; Iliad Book V uses Aphrodite’s relationship to Zeus in another narrative context.

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Dione

Dione appears when Aphrodite returns wounded from battle; the narrator explicitly identifies their mother–daughter relationship.

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Back to the source

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Theogony: origins and kinship

A main source for the initial dataset, with passage references preserving the context of each relationship.

Iliad Book V: the scene identifying Dione

Aphrodite’s return from battle supports a mother–daughter relationship without relying on a blended retelling.

Character portraits are AI illustrations, not evidence of a deity’s appearance. Accounts follow the sources cited in each article.