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Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
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Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Atlas Coeus Crius Cronus Demeter Dionysus Gaia Hades Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hyperion Iapetus Mnemosyne Oceanus Phobos Phoebe Poseidon Prometheus Rhea Tethys Themis Uranus Zeus
Bacchus Ceres Diana Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Pluto Venus Vesta Vulcan
Amun Anubis Aten Atum Babi Bastet Bes Geb Hapi hathor heqet Horus Isis Khepri Khnum Khonsu Maat Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Ra Seshat Seth Shu Sobek Thoth
Alfheim Baldur Freya Freyr Frigg Heimdallr Helheim Idun Jotunheim Loki Nerthus Njord Odin Thor Tyr
Aengus Arawn Badb Brigid Cailleach Ceridwen Cernunnos Cu Chulainn Dagda Danu Gwydion Herne the Hunter Lugh Medb Morrigan Neit Nuada Taliesin Taranis
Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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  1. Classical Mythology
    Pantheon Heroic Age Royal Houses Geographia Facts & Figures Genealogy Bibliography About Classical Myths
  2. Genealogy
    Greek Pantheon Aeolids 1 (Thessaly & Messenia) Aeolids 2 (Corinth & Orchomenus) House of Elis (Aeolids 4) House of Calydon (Aeolids 3) Lapith House of Thessaly Early House of Argos House of Argos (Proëtids and Aeolids) House of Perseus (Mycenae and Tiryns) Houses of Thebes & Crete House of Pelops House of Sparta House of Odysseus Descendants of Aeacus Houses of Athens Houses of Arcadia House of Troy and Dardania The Pleiades (The Atlantids) Children of Helius Houses of the Seers Houses of the Rome Giants and Monsters Roman Pantheon
  3. Houses of Thebes & Crete

Houses of Thebes & Crete

The following two family trees show the two powerful houses of the two kingdoms of Thebes and Crete. Like the Houses of Argolis, they were descendants of the river god Inachus and his daughter Io, and these descendants were known as Inachids, but Thebes (Cadmus) and Crete (Europa) also belonged to the Agenorid line (descendants of Agenor), as opposed to the Belid line in Argos.

Agenor was the king of Sidon (or Tyre in other myths), in Phoenicia.

  • House of Minos (Crete)

  • House of Thebes

House of Minos (Crete)

Tectamus (king of Crete) Asterius (king of Crete) Io (Argive heroine) Belus Agenor (king of Sidon) Cadmus (king of Thebes) Europa Rhadamanthys (Cretan Lawgiver) Sarpedon (king of Lycia) Minos (king of Crete) Pasiphaë (daughter of Helios) Ariadne Glaucus Catreus (king of Crete) Aerope Althaemenes Apemosyne Acacallis (Acalle) Androgeus Deucalion Crete (eponym of Crete) Idomeneus Meriones Meda Cleisithyra Telephassa or Argiope Leucus (Cretan Usurper) Aethon (possibly the son of Deucalion, name used by Odysseus as a beggar disguise) Helius (god of the sun) Perse (Oceanid) Theseus (king of Athens) Dionysus (god of wine) Atreus Thyestes (king of Mycenae) Pelopia Aegisthus (king of Mycenae) Agamemnon (king of Mycenae) Menelaus (king of Sparta) Clytemnestra (daughter of Tyndareus) Helen of Sparta (daughter of Zeus and Leda) Sarpedon (Lycian captain) Bellerophon Thasus Phoenix (king of Phoenica) Cilix (king of Cilicia) Aeolus (king of Aeolus) Hellen (king of Phthia) Phaedra Nauplius Palamedes Oeax Alcmene (mother of Heracles) Amphitryon Dorus (eponym of the Dorians) Cretheus (king of Iolcus) Cretan Bull (Marathonian Bull) Minotaur

See Minoan Crete, for the myths about Europa and Minos.

There are several names not listed here, because I couldn't fit them here.

Androgeus, son of Minos, had two sons while living on the island of Paros – Alcaius and Sthenelus. Alcaius and Sthenelus joined Heracles in his Amazon adventure of fetching the Girdle of Hippolyte (9th Labour).

Also on the island of Paros, Minos had other sons: Eurymedon, Chryses, Nephalion and Philolaus. They were killed by Heracles, because they had killed two of Heracles' crew.

House of Thebes

Io Belus Phoenix (king of Phoenicia) Amphiaraus (Argive seer) Actaeon Agenor (king of Sidon) Europa Dionysus Cadmus (king of Cadmeia (Thebes)) Aristaeus Ino Epopeus (king of Sicyon) Telephassa or Argiope Thebe Niobe Neleus (king of Pylos and Messenia) Semele Pentheus (king of Cadmeia (Thebes)) Polydorus (king of Cadmeia (Thebes)) Amphion (king of Thebes) Zethus (king of Thebes) Labdacus (king of Cadmeia (Thebes)) Nycteus (regent of Cadmeia (Thebes)) Antiope Lycus (king of Cadmeia (Thebes)) Laius (king of Thebes) Oedipus (king of Thebes) Jocasta Jocasta Creon (king of Thebes) Polyneices Eteocles (king of Thebes) Antigone Ismene Haemon Laodamas (king of Thebes) Thersander (king of Thebes) Athamas (king of Orchomenus) Adrastus (king of Argos) Heracles Tantalus Aristodemus (Heraclid) Procles (king of Sparta) Eurysthenes (king of Sparta) Harmonia Talus (king of Argos) Chthonius (Sparti) Echion (Sparti) Ares (god of war) Aphrodite (goddess of love) Chloris 7 sons of Niobe ? 6 daughters of Niobe ?

Another family tree that you may be interested in, is the House of Seers. Though this genealogy contains mostly the seers from Argos, who were descendants of Melampus, Teiresias had a daughter named Manto who was the mother of two seers, Amphilochus and Mopsus, who were both his grandsons. While Amphilochus was also a descendant of Melampus. Teiresias himself was descended from Udaeüs, one of the Sparti ("Sowed-men").

See the House of Thebes, about Cadmus and his descendants.

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Genealogy:

  • • Greek Pantheon
  • • Aeolids 1 (Thessaly & Messenia)
  • • Aeolids 2 (Corinth & Orchomenus)
  • • House of Elis (Aeolids 4)
  • • House of Calydon (Aeolids 3)
  • • Lapith House of Thessaly
  • • Early House of Argos
  • • House of Argos (Proëtids and Aeolids)
  • • House of Perseus (Mycenae and Tiryns)
  • • Houses of Thebes & Crete
  • • House of Pelops
  • • House of Sparta
  • • House of Odysseus
  • • Descendants of Aeacus
  • • Houses of Athens
  • • Houses of Arcadia
  • • House of Troy and Dardania
  • • The Pleiades (The Atlantids)
  • • Children of Helius
  • • Houses of the Seers
  • • Houses of the Rome
  • • Giants and Monsters
  • • Roman Pantheon
Early House of Argos

Early House of Argos

House of Inachus Early House of Argos House of Inachus The genealogy displayed above shows the common ancestry of the Houses of Argos, Thebes and Crete, as it can be seen by the three different colours (eg. Argos is cyan and green, Thebes/Crete in...

July 28th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
House of Perseus (Mycenae and Tiryns)

House of Perseus (Mycenae and Tiryns)

The family tree above shows the descendants of Io , on the Belid branch, which include such heroes as Perseus and Heracles. The names in blue are the Heraclids or the descendants of Heracles, who would later conquer Argos, Sparta and the region of...

July 28th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Royal Houses

Royal Houses

In ancient Greece, a city would dominate the surrounding countryside. More powerful cities would have a citadel situated in a strategic position in the city, generally on higher ground. Within these walled strongholds, temples were built for the w...

April 24th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Genealogy

Genealogy

Pantheon Greek Families Roman Families Miscellaneous Genealogy Pantheon Greek Families Apart from Zeus sleeping with women in the royal houses throughout Greece and in every different generation, so that every descendant was related to him, there ...

February 23rd, 2003 • Jimmy Joe
House of Pelops

House of Pelops

Children of Pelops House of Atreus Children of Pelops The family tree of Pelops displays his descendants, such as Agamemnon, Menelaus and Orestes. Several of his daughters were married into Perseus' family, so also see the House of Perseus . You w...

July 28th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Thebes

Thebes

Thebes was a city of south east of Boeotia. It was founded by its first king, Cadmus , descendant of Io and brother of Europa. Thebes was originally called Cadmeia. Later, Cadmeia was the name of the citadel, while the entire city was renamed Theb...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Houses of Athens

Houses of Athens

The first family tree shows only two early kings of Attica. At the time, Attica was originally called either Acte or Actaea, after Actaeus . His son-in-law, Cecrops , succeeded him, and the new king renamed the entire region to Cecropia. The secon...

July 28th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
House of Thebes

House of Thebes

Thebes was a principal city in the valley of southern Boeotia, between the Cithaeron Mountains in the north and Lake Copaïs (Copais) in the southeast. The city was originally named Cadmeia after Cadmus , its founder and first king. It was later na...

May 6th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
House of Argos (Proëtids and Aeolids)

House of Argos (Proëtids and Aeolids)

The family tree that you see above contains the link between Proetus and the Aeolids, Melampus and Bias. Their descendants would become involved in two wars against Thebes ( Seven Against Thebes and the Epigoni ), before the Trojan War. I wasn't a...

July 28th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Houses of Argolis

Houses of Argolis

Argolis was a region in northeastern Peloponnesus. There, several powerful cities were built on the Plain of Argolis: Argos, Tiryns and Mycenae. The myths that are about to be unfolded, were set in these cities. The stories involved the descendant...

April 24th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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