slept with a cloud appearing to be Hera, which was actually Nephele
condemned to be tied to a winged flaming wheel that was always spinning, a symbol of his burning lust
King Salmoneus (brother of Sisyphus, father of Tyro)
passed himself off as Zeus to call down the rains with false thunder and lightning
some think he was struck by lightning while impersonating Zeus on his chariot with dried skins and cauldrons trailing behind it in a storm, with torches hoisted into the air
fled from Ino, his stepmother, with Helle, twin sister
he gave Aeetes the Golden Fleece in exchange for sanctuary
Aeetes nailed the fleece to a tree, which was later taken by Jason
Helle
fled with Phrixus, her twin brother from Ino
namesake of Hellespont where she drowned having fallen from Nephele's flying golden ram which was intended to save her from Ino's jealous wrath
+Ino/Leucothea
raised Dionysus, the god of wine and merrymaking
threw herself and their son Melicertes/Palaemon into the sea to escape Athamas' insane wrath brought on by Hera's jealous curse over Ino's care for Dionysus
+Themisto
dressed her children in white and Ino's in black
mistakenly killed her own children when Ino swapped their costumes
Salmoneus
Tyro +Cretheus
perhaps struck by lightning on his bronze chariot
condemned to Tartarus for imitating Zeus with cauldrons and torches behind his chariot as thunder and lightning
sought to call down the rain with his Zeus-like antics
Deion, king of Phocis
Cephalus
Actor
Aenetus
Phylacus
Asterodia
Magnes
Hymenaios, the god of marriage ceremonies
first king of Magnesia, from whence the Centaurs came
Perieres +Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus
Tyndareus
Castor and Pollux
Clytemnestra +Agamemnon (also she killed him)
Orestes
killed his mother to avenge his father
condemned by Tyndareus for killing his mother
Timandra
Phoebe
Philonoe
Helen of Troy (step-father, as Zeus was the real father)
Canace
lover of Poseidon
in Ovid's Heroides, potentially the daughter of Aeolus, god of the winds, rather than Aeolus, father of Sisyphus
Alcyone (namesake of 'halcyon') +Ceyx
Eosphorus, the Morning Star
they called each other "Zeus" and "Hera", so Zeus smote Ceyx ship at sea with a thunderbolt
drowned herself in the sea when Morpheus (the God of Dreams) appeared to herself as her husband, Ceyx, after his tragic demise
presided over a pool of memory/forgetfulness in Hades
namesake of the "meme"
Themis +Zeus
Titaness of divine order, natural law, and customs
Dike
Kronos/Cronus (Saturn to the Romans)
Kronos ≠ Chronos?
sent with an adamantine sickle and the Titans and Titanides (except Oceanus) to castrate Ouranos
The Erinyes (or Furies) were born of the blood of Ouranos' genitals, severed by Cronus with the adamantine sickle. They are also called the daughters of Nox and Acheron
Alecto (endless anger, grudge)
Megaera (jealousy, envy, shrew)
Tisiphone (vengence for murder)
The Giants and Meliae (ash-tree nymphs) also sprang from his genital blood.
Aphrodite was born of Ouranos' testes falling into the sea.
devoured his children except Zeus whom Rhea saved, then vomited them up when Zeus, his covert cupbearer along with Metis, a wise Titaness and Zeus' first love, gave him wine with mustard
Rhea +Kronos
Olympians
Zeus
In the ten-year Battle of the Titans in Thessaly, Zeus overthrew the Titans (save Themis and her son Prometheus, who sided with the Olympians) with Grandma Gaia's help as well as the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes who forged Zeus' thunder and lightning.
Nephele
a cloud nymph conjured and disguised as Hera, sent to fool Ixion
who had the upper body and head of a woman, the lower body of a dragon, a massive, venom-filled, scorpion-like tail, snakes around her ankles, and 50 grisly heads of beasts (wolves, lions, snakes, bears) around her waist
who was assigned to guard the Hecatonchires in Tartarus
+Typhon
Orthrus, the two-headed dog who guarded the cattle of Geryon
Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the gates of Hades
the Lernaean Hydra, the many-headed serpent
the Chimera, the fire-breathing lion-goat-snake
the Caucasian Eagle, who ate the lobes of Prometheus' liver each day
the Sphinx
the Nemean Lion
the Colchian Dragon, who guarded the Golden Fleece
Scylla, a female sea monster who devoured ships attempting to pass between her cave and the whirlpool Charybdis
the Harpies
the Crommyonian Sow, a wild pig who ravaged the village of Crommyon, slain by Theseus
the personification of the pure, upper air that the Gods breathe
'Hyginus says further that the children of Aether and Day were Earth, Heaven, and Sea, while the children of Aether and Earth were "Grief, Deceit, Wrath, Lamentation, Falsehood, Oath, Vengeance, Intemperance, Altercation, Forgetfulness, Sloth, Fear, Pride, Incest, Combat, Ocean, Themis, Tartarus, Pontos; and the Titans, Briareus, Gyges, Steropes, Atlas, Hyperion, and Polus, Saturn, Ops, Moneta, Dione; and three Furies – namely, Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone."'
Hemera (Day)
Dies to the Romans
Thalassa (Sea) - female counterpart to Pontus
Hesperides
nymphs of the West, the sunset, dusk, the evening
Geres (Old Age)
Moirai (Fates)
Clotho is the spinner of the threads of human lives who sings what was, known as Nona to the Romans. She choose who is born and when. The youngest of the Fates, she can decide when gods or mortal are to be saved or put to death. She determined that Pelops should be reborn after he was killed and boiled by his father, after Demeter ate his shoulder when she was herself consumed by the loss of her daughter, Persephone. Along with Hermes and her sister she created the alphabet.
Lachesis (allotter and measurer, who sings what is),
Atropos (unturnable cutter, who sings what is to be),
also said to be daughters of:
Uranus and Gaia
Zeus and Themis
Thanatos (Peaceful Death)
Styx (boundary between life and death)
Charon (ferryman to death)
spawned
Moros (Doom)
Ker (Violent Death)
Keres (death-spirits)
Hypnos (Sleep)
Oneiroi (Dreams)
Momos (Blame)
Oizys (Pain)
Apate (Deceit)
Geras (Aging)
Philotes (Friendship)
Eris (Strife/Discord)
Nemesis (Revenge)
the punisher of hubris
the distributor of fortune
Nemesis led to the demise of Echo and Narcissus to balance the vanity that sprang from their unbalanced blessings.
"Nemesis, winged balancer of life, dark-faced goddess, daughter of Justice" - Mesomedes, 2nd century C.E.
Nemesis spawned an egg containing two sets of twins:
