Jun 28 2008

Greek Gods

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Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses

(in alphabetical order)

Olympian Pantheon of Deities

  • Aphrodite

    • Daughter of Zeus and Thalassa. Greek goddess of lust, love, beauty and sexual reproduction.

  • Apollo

    • Son of Zeus and Leto. Greek god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts.

  • Ares

    • Son of Zeus and Hera. Greek god of savage warfare, bloodlust and slaughter.

  • Artemis

    • Daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Greek goddess of forests, hills, virginity and fertility.

  • Athena

    • Daughter of Zeus and Metis. Greek goddess goddess of heroic endeavor.

  • Demeter

    • Daughter of Cronos and Rhea. The elder sister of Zeus. Greek goddess of grain and fertility, the pure; nourisher of the youth and the green earth; the health-giving cycle of life and death; preserver of marriage and the sacred law.

  • Dionysus

    • Son of Zeus and Semele. Greek god of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy.

  • Hades

    • Son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Poseidon, Zeus, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera. Greek god of the underworld. .

  • Hephaestus

    • Son of Zeus and Hera. Husband of Aphrodite. Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.

  • Hera

    • Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Wife and older sister of Zeus. Greek goddess of women and marriage.

  • Hermes

    • Son of Zeus and the Pleiade Maia. Greek god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunning of thieves and liars

  • Hestia

    • Daughter of Cronus and Rhea. The elder sister of Zeus. Greek goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family.

  • Poseidon

    • Son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus. Husband of Amphitrite. Greek god of the sea, horses, and earthquakes.

  • Zeus

    • King of the gods. Ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. Son of Cronus and Rhea.

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