Greek Mythology:A crash course in the crazy lives of the kooky Greek gods and other such things

In the BeginningThere was CHAOS!---No really, there was. The first god in Greek mythology was Chaos. A shapeless, dark, mysterious god who gave birth to Gaea (the Earth)Gaea then gave birth (?) to Uranus (the sky). They married (?) and she then gave birth to the first gods: The Titans!

and then a son kills a fatherIn the first (of many) cases of a son taking power from his father, Cronus, the youngest titan born to Uranus and Gaea, castrates his father and becomes ruler of the gods with his sister-wife, Rhea (again, a common theme in Greek mythology)

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crownCronus, fearing for his lifethinking that one of his children may off him in much the same way he deposed of his own fathereats every child that Rhea gives birth to.

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and history repeats itself.Rhea, tired of seeing her children eaten shortly after birth by her husband (uh, duh), saves her youngest son by feeding Uranus a stone wrapped in clothing instead.She hides her new son, Zeus, until he grows to adulthood.He returns to Mt. Olympus angry.

Be Careful What You EatZeus makes Cronus drink a poison that forces him to throw up. Cronus then vomits Zeuss grown brothers and sisters (?) in full clothing and armor.Zeus and his siblings wage war against Cronus and the Titans, eventually defeating them and casting them into the pit of Tartarus.

The Olympian Gods

The Big TwelveZeusHeraPoseidonHadesDemeterApollo

ArtemisHephaestusAthenaHermesAphroditeAres

The Family Tree

Some Final God Shots

Oedipus*The Man*The Myth*The Riddle*The Complex

Riddle Me ThisWhat walks on four legs in the morningTwo legs at noonAnd three legs in the evening?

TiresiasThe Blind ProphetThe Man/The Woman