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Occupation: Goddess
Weapons: A magic
of love and beauty
girdle that inspired love
Responsibilities:
Home: Mount Olympus
Helping mortals and
immortals to fall
in love
Parents: Zeus and Dione
Powers: Causing
Hobbies: Flirting
mortals and immortals
to fall in love
Interesting Information:
Married to: Hephaestus
Aphrodite was born in
the sea and rode to shore
on a shell. She is usually
pictured with a mirror.
Symbols: Rose, dove,
sparrow, dolphin, ram,
apple, myrtle
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Aphrodite
Apollo
Occupation: Sun god;
Weapons: Bow and
god of medicine, music,
poetry, dance, math,
herdsmen, and prophecy
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Controlling the sun’s
daily movement across
the sky
Powers: Healing,
inspiring learning, making
the sun rise and set
Symbols: Laurel tree,
lyre, the number 7
Parents: Zeus and Leto
Married to: Unmarried
Hobbies: Known for
killing many mythological
monsters
Interesting Information:
Apollo is Artemis’ twin.
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Responsibilities:
Home: Mount Olympus
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Ares
Occupation: God of war
Parents: Zeus and Hera
Responsibilities:
Married to: Unmarried
Waging war
Hobbies: Violence
Powers: Inciting
Interesting Information:
conflict
Among the other gods
and goddesses, only
Hades, Aphrodite, and
Eros would speak to
Ares. He was disliked
for his violent temper.
Symbols: Dog,
vulture, spear,
flaming torch
Weapons: Spear
Home: Mount Olympus
Artemis
Occupation: Goddess of
Home: Mount Olympus
the moon and hunting
Parents: Zeus and Leto
Responsibilities:
Married to: Unmarried
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Protecting women,
animals, and cities
Hobbies: Punishing
people into animals
hunters who killed more
game than they needed
to eat
Symbols: Cypress tree,
Interesting Information:
Powers: Changing
dog, deer, bird
Weapons: Silver bow
and arrow
Apollo’s twin, Artemis
was known to be very
independent.
Occupation: Goddess of
Parents: Zeus and Metis,
wisdom and war
a Titaness
Responsibilities: Giving
Married to: Unmarried
wisdom, inspiring
inventions, protecting
Athens
Hobbies: Patron
goddess of Athens;
invented math
Powers: Changing
Interesting Information:
herself into other
shapes and forms
Athena accidentally
shot her childhood
friend Pallas with a
bow and arrow, so
she is sometimes called
Pallas Athena.
Symbols: Owl, olive tree
Weapons: Lance, shield,
fringed cloak
Home: Mount Olympus
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Athena
Occupation: Goddess of
Parents: Cronos and
agriculture, guardian
of marriage
Rhea
Married to: Unmarried
Responsibilities:
Hobbies: Disguised as
Controlling the harvest
of wheat or barley
an old woman, Demeter
roamed the earth
rewarding some cities
with good harvests and
punishing others with
poor harvests.
Weapons: None
Interesting Information:
Powers: Able to
make plants and trees
grow or die
Symbols: Torch, sheaf
Home: Mount Olympus
Demeter created the
four seasons.
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Demeter
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dionysus
Occupation: God of
Parents: Zeus and
wine and parties
Semele, a mortal
Responsibilities:
Married to: Unmarried
Cupbearer to the gods
Hobbies: Attending
Powers: Creating
happiness or
unhappiness for mortals
parties; teaching mortals
how to grow grapes
and make wine
Symbols: Grape vine,
Interesting Information:
ivy wreath, rose,
drinking vessel (cup)
Dionysus became
associated with drama.
He is the youngest of
the Olympian gods.
Weapons: None
Home: Mount Olympus
Hades
Occupation: God of
Married to: Persephone
the dead
Hobbies: Riding in a
Responsibilities: Ruling
gold chariot drawn by
black horses
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the underworld; guarding
the dead
Powers: Causing death
Symbols: Cornucopia
Weapons: cap of
invisibility
Home: The underworld
Parents: Cronos and
Rhea
Interesting Information:
He is Zeus’ brother.
The underworld is
sometimes called Hades.
Hades himself was very
wealthy, as he owned
all the precious stones
and metals found in
the earth.
Occupation: God of blacksmiths,
Parents: Zeus and Hera
craftsmen, and fire
Married to: Aphrodite
Responsibilities: Granting
Hobbies: Famous
power to blacksmiths; helping
mortals to create useful items
Symbols: Axe, tongs
creations include Achilles’
weapons, Odysseus’
weapons, Heracles’ shield,
Agamemnon’s scepter,
and Harmonia’s necklace
Weapons: Blacksmith tongs,
Interesting Information:
Powers: Able to create objects
with magical properties
Because he was born
ugly, his mother threw
him from Mount
Olympus. He lived in the
sea for nine years.
hammer
Home: Mount Olympus, but
his forge is in the crater of
Mount Aetna, a volcano in Sicily
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hephaestus
Occupation: Queen of
Married to: Zeus
the gods; goddess of
women and motherhood
Hobbies: Punishing
Responsibilities:
Watching over women
Powers: Commanding
the winds
Symbols: Peacock,
pomegranate
Weapons: Trickery,
deceit
Home: Mount Olympus
Parents: Cronos and Rhea
the goddesses and
mortal women that Zeus
pursued, punishing their
children, ordering other
gods to help her inflict
her punishments
Interesting Information:
Hera spends much of
her time chasing after
Zeus, his lovers, and their
children. Thus, she travels
frequently throughout
the world.
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Hera
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Hermes
Occupation: Messenger
which marked his neutrality
in any conflict.
of the gods; god of dreams,
commerce, treaties, inventions,
science, art, and oratory
Home: Mount Olympus
Parents: Zeus and Maia, a
Responsibilities: Patron of
Titaness
voyagers and thieves; delivers
the gods’ messages; escorts
the dead to the underworld
Married to: Unmarried
Hobbies: Creating mischief;
As an infant, Hermes stole
Apollo’s cattle but Apollo
forgave him when Hermes
invented the lyre for him.
Powers: Traveling anywhere
instantly
Symbols: The number 4, a
staff with wings, the caduceus
Interesting Information:
Weapons: None; Hermes’
“Hermes” means hastener.
staff bore a white ribbon,
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Hestia
Occupation: Goddess of
Parents: Cronos and
the hearth and marriage
Rhea
Responsibilities: Protector
Married to: Unmarried
of orphans and the home
Hobbies: Protecting
Powers: None, although
homes
she held great influence
with the other gods
and goddesses
Interesting Information:
Symbols: None, but
almost every home had a
shrine to her
Weapons: None
Home: Mount Olympus
As the most sacred of
the Olympians, Hestia
was considered too good
for gossip. She eventually
gave up her throne to
Dionysus to tend the
palace hearth.
Occupation: God of
Home: Mount Olympus
the sea
and all bodies of water
Responsibilities:
Parents: Cronos and
Overseeing the oceans
and navigation
Rhea
Married to: Amphitrite
Powers: Causing
Hobbies: Riding a
and quelling
earthquakes, storms;
rousing sea monsters
gold chariot with
white horses
Interesting Information:
Symbols: Horse,
He was Zeus’ brother.
He invented the horse
and the dolphin.
dolphin, pine tree
Weapons: The trident,
a three-pronged spear
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poseidon
Zeus
Occupation: King of
Home: Mount Olympus
the gods
Parents: Cronos and Rhea
Mount Olympus, Earth,
and sky; ruler of all
mortals and immortals
Powers: Can change
himself into any form;
can banish others to the
underworld or bestow
immortality
Symbols: Eagle, oak tree
Weapons: Thunderbolts,
lightning
Married to: Hera
Hobbies: Courting
goddesses and mortal
women; hiding from Hera;
administering justice among
mortals and immortals
Interesting Information:
Zeus led the new gods,
many of whom were his
siblings, to victory over the
Titans. He built the palace
on Mount Olympus.
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Responsibilities: Ruler of
Name ______________________________________
Date ___________________
Ask-a-God
The ancient Greeks directed their prayers and requests for help to the
gods and goddesses whose special abilities addressed their problems.
Using your god and goddess booklet, decide which god or goddess
each of the ancient Greeks below might ask for help. Write the name
and “occupation”on the line.
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1.
Dear ______________________________________ ,
I sowed many acres of grain and carefully tended the fields. With your help I will
yield a good harvest. Will you grant me a plentiful crop that will feed me and my family
through the winter?
Nikos the Farmer
2. Dear ______________________________________ ,
Our fair city of Lailos will soon begin our annual boar hunt. We have always
been loyal to you, goddess, and we will hunt only as much as we need to sustain our
people. Can you grant us successful hunting?
The Citizens of Lailos
3. Dear______________________________________ ,
Oh powerful god, can you please help my most prized ram, who was badly stung
by bees last night? He is badly hurt. Turn your healing power, like the glorious rays of
the sun, to my humble flock of sheep.
Kalos the Shepherd
4. Dear ______________________________________ ,
I long to fall in love! Goddess, please send a brave, true man to my little village.
Cause him to fall in love with me, so we can be married by spring.
Atla the Lovelorn
5. Dear _______________________________________ ,
I have long been your loyal servant. In return, can you protect me and my crew as
we sail the seas to Lemnos? Grant us calm waters and high tides.
Senna the Sailor
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