Ares Family

Ares Family Chart

Family of Ares, god of war, according to Greek Mythology.

See also: Titans and Olympians

• Zeus -&- Hera (their only offspring)
  • Ares -&- (many mates, listed below with offspring)
    • -&- Demonice (Daughter of Calydonian lord Agenor)
      • Evenus -&- ??
        • Marpessa
      • Thestius (Aetolian ruler) -&- Eurythemis
        • Leda -&- Tyndareus (Spartan)
          • Helen
          • Clytemnestra
          • Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri)
          • Timandra
          • Philonoe
          • Phoebe
        • Althaea -&- Oeneus (King of Calydon)
          • Gorge
          • Deianeira
          • Meleager
        • Hypermnestra -&- Oicles
          • Amphiaraus
        • Two other sons
      • Pylus
      • Molus
    • -&- Aetolia
      • Dryas (Argonaut) -&- ??
        • Lycurgus (King of Edonians, of Thrace)
    • -&- Astyoche
      • Ialmenus
      • Ascalaphus
      • Both were Argonauts and "co-kings of Minyan Orchomenus".
    • -&- Chryse
      • Phlegyas (King of Orchomenus)
    • -&- Cyrene
      • Diomedes (Thracian King)
    • -&- Pyrene or Pelopia
      • Cycnus (killed by Heracles in challenge)
    • -&- Atlanta (Virgin huntress)
      • Parthenopaeus (Arcadian leader)
    • -&- Otrere
      • Penthesileia (Amazon Queen)
    • -&- Asterope (a Pleiad) or Harpina
      • Oenomaus (King of Eleians)
    • -&- Protogeneia (Daughter of Calydon)
      • Oxylus (King of Eleians)
    • -&- Aerope (Daughter of Cepheus)
      • Aeropus
    • -&- Agraulus (Daughter of Erechtheus)
      • Alcippe
    • -&- Aphrodite
      • Eros (Love)
      • Deimus (Fear)
      • Phobus (Panic)
      • Harmonia (Wife of Cadmus, King of Thebes)

Notes:

• -&- represents mate
• Bold gods are the key Hermes gods
• Information from "The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology" by Edward Tripp

• Family Tree of the Principal Gods of Greek Mythology
• Greek and Roman Mythology