In the Beginning (1st generation)

According to ancient Greek creation store, Chaos was the beginning of everything. Some stories
explain Chaos as a void of nothingness. Others highlight the fact that Chaos was the first Greek deity.
He existed alone before Gaia appeared. While CHAOS was the void, GAIA was Mother Earth. In the
stories where Gaia was the first deity, she gave birth to URANUS without having had a partner.
Gaia and Uranus became husband and wife and parented the Titan Gods and Goddesses.
Gaia and Uranus were also the parents of Cyclops and a fifty-headed monster.

The Titans (2nd generation)

There were twelve Titans total – six female and six male. They paired off to form six married couples.
The Titans were Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Theia, Crius, Mnemosyne, Coeus, Phoepe, Cronus, and
Rhea.
Cronus and Rhea were the parents of several of the Olympians. Cronus was told that his children
would overthrow him. Rather than take any chances, he ate them. Rhea tricked Cronus in order to
spare Zeus.
When Zeus was grown, he freed his siblings and overthrew his father, thus making him the new King
of the Gods. Some of the Titans, such as Rhea, were still mentioned in stories that featured the
Olympians.

Olympian Gods (3rd generation)

After the Titan Wars (once Cronus had expelled all of Zeus' brothers and sisters, Zeus talked them into
rebelling against Cronus, their father), Zeus and his brothers and sisters rebelled against his father,
Cronus. Then the Olympian gods and goddesses took over. They moved to the top of Mount Olympus
where they were able to rule and oversee the mortals in their daily lives. The twelve Olympians were
Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes,
Hestia, and Dionysius. Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, and Hestia were all children of Cronus and
Rhea. Thus, the prophecy came true. Note that Hades was also the brother of Poseidon and Zeus but
he wasn’t one of the Olympians. He became King of the Underworld.