The Royal House of Thebes and the Atreidae


                                      Zeus___Io
                                           |
                                        Epaphus
                                           |
                              Poseidon___Lybia
                                       |
                                    Agenor                                           The House of Atreus:
                       ________________|________________                                     Zeus
                       |                               |                                       |
                     Cadmus___Harmonia        Zeus___Europa                                 Tantalus
                            |                   ___|_______                          __________|__________
                            |                   |         |                          |                   | 
                            |             Rhadamanthus  Minos___Pasiphae           Pelops___Hippodamia Niobe
    ________________________|_______________     _____________|_______________________    |
    |        |       |     |               |     |        |        |                 |    |
 Autonoe    Ino    Agave Semele___Zeus Polydorus |        |        |                 |    |
    |        |       |          |          | Androgeus Ariadne Phaedrea___Theseus Catreus |
 Actaeon Melicertes  |      Dionysus   Labdacus                         _____________|    |        
                 Pentheus                                               |        _________|________ 
                     |                                                  |        |        |       |
                 Menoeceus                                            Aerope___Atreus Thyestes Pittheus
          ___________|__________                                   __________|            |       |
          |                    |                                   |         |        Aegisthus   | 
        Creon               Jocasta___Laius     Clytemnestra___Agamemnon Menelaus___Helen      Aethra___Aegeus
    ______|______                   |               _________|_________           |                   | 
    |           |      Jocasta___Oedipus            |        |        |       Hermione             Theseus
Menoeceus II  Haemon __________|________________ Orestes Iphigenia Electra                            |
                     |         |        |      |                                                  Hippolytus
                 Eteocles Polyneices Antigone Ismene 

cited from: Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. Little Brown & Company, January 1950.

Because of the extensiveness of the total family tree, some gods appear in more than one tree. Note the incest.

See:
The Genealogy of the Greek Gods and Goddesses of Mythology Metanode

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