Hesiod, Theogony (c. 700 BC)

Ouranos + Gaia -> Kronos + Rhea

Zeus: sky, thunder/lightning
Poseidon: sea, earthquakes, horses
Hades: underworld (+ Charon, Ceberus)
Hera: marriage
Demeter: agriculture

Ares (< Hera): war
Persephone (< Demeter) + Hades
Artemis (< Leto): woods, hunting, moon
Apollo (< Leto): music, poetry, medicine
Hermes (< Maia): messenger, commerce
Athena (< forehead): crafts, Athens
Dionysus (< Semele): wine, madness

Hephaestus: metalworking

Aphrodite (< ?): sex

Heroic Cycles

Theban Cycle

• Oedipus
• "Seven Against Thebes"

• 12 Labors (& then some)

Trojan Cycle

• Zeus + Leda -> Helen (+ Menelaus)
• Wedding of Peleus & Thetis > Achilles
• Discord & Golden Apple
• Judgment of Paris
• "Abduction" of Helen
• 10-Year War (Homer, Iliad)
• Sack of Troy (w/ Trojan Horse)
• Homecomings
• Odysseus (Homer, Odyssey)
• Agamemnon (Aeschylus, Oresteia)