Taken from Coe College Classical Mythology Notes - Edmund Burke

1 - 115: Invocation to the Muses, daughters of Zeus.

116 - 153: The Original Cosmogony:
    a. Chaos, Ge, Eros
    b. Children of Chaos=Darkness and Night (offspring of Night=Light and Day);
    Children of Ge=Uranus (Sky), Mountains, and Sea.
    c. Children of Ge and Uranus=Ocean, 10 Lesser Deities (including Rhea and
    Memory), and Cronos (=the Titans). Also Hundred Handed Monsters and Cyclopes.

154 - 210: The Rule of the Titans:
    a. The tyranny and overthrow of Uranus by Cronos (aided by Ge);
    b. The birth of the Furies and Aphrodite.

211 - 336: The children and descendants of Night (=monsters) and the children and descendants of Sea (=mostly benign powers).

337 - 382: Children of the Titans, Tethys and Ocean (=water deities), and the children of the Titans, Thea and Hyperion (=sky deities).

383 - 403: Children of the Titanics, Styx and Pallas (=Glory, Victory, Power, and Strength. These will always attend Zeus).

404 - 452: The exaltation of Hecate by Zeus (the benefits to man).

453 - 506: The Rise of the Olympians:
    a. Cronos and Rhea and the first generation of Olympian, including Zeus;
    b. The tyranny of Cronos against his children.
    c. The deceit of Rhea and the anticipated victory by Zeus.

507 - 616: The punishment of Prometheus by Zeus (the punishment of man=women).

617 - 735: The Rule of the Olympians:
    a. The victory of the Olympians over the Titans;
    b. The political ascendance of Zeus.

736 - 819: Tartarus.

820 - 1022: The reign of Zeus:
    a. The immortal wives of Zeus (and the birth of Athena).
    b. The mortal wives of Zeus (and the birth of the heroes).

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