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• The God of the Sun.
• His Roman name is the same as his Greek
name.
• Considered the most Greek of all gods.
• Plays his lyre to entertain the gods.
B is for Bacchus
• The God of Wine.
• Son of Zeus and a mortal woman.
His mother died when Zeus
appeared to her in his immortal
god form, so he hid him in his
thigh.
• He is also called Dionysus.
• Was raised by nymphs in the valley
of Nysa.
• The son of Uranus and
Gaia and the father of the
six great gods of
Olympus.
• Was one of the Titans.
• Ate his children because
he knew that one of them
will overthrow him, but
Zeus escaped that fate.
• Was overthrown by Zeus,
losing his position as
Lord of the Universe.
• As the Goddess of Corn, she was
worshipped by the woman, since
they were the farmers.
• Her daughter Persephone was
kidnapped by Hades, which made her
mourn, causing Autumn and Winter.
• Along with Bacchus, they were
worshipped together as the two
great gifts of the Earth.
E is for the Erinyes
• Also called the Furies, they were
creatures of the Underworld that punished
the evil dead.
• Their names were Tisiphone, Megaera, and
Alecto.
F is for the Fates
• The three Fates are said to give men at birth
evil and good to have.
• The fates also controlled life. Clotho spun the
thread of life, Lachesis assigned each man’s
destiny, and Atropos cut the thread of life with
the “abhorred shears”, ending a man’s life.
• The wife of Uranus. She is also
called Mother Earth.
• Like Uranus, they were both born
out of Chaos. They have no
parents.
• Helped Cronus wound Uranus,
since she was mad at him for how
he mistreated their children.
• Their children were: the Titans,
the Giants, and the monsters
with a hundred hands.
H is for Hestia
• The Goddess of the Hearth.
• In every city there was a public hearth
for Hestia, where the fire was not
allowed to go out.
• She is also the symbol of the home.
• Every meal began and ended in and
offering to her.
• The Goddess of the Rainbow.
• She is the messenger of the Gods. Besides that,
not much is know about her.
J is for Juno
• Juno is the Roman name for Hera,
Protector of Marriage.
• She was an extremely jealous goddess,
and punished all of Zeus’s mistresses.
• She and Zeus had an uneasy relationship.
• In the Trojan War, a lot of the warriors, both on
the Greek and Trojan side, got killed.
• The god Apollo shot arrows from his flying
chariot that got many of the Greek warriors sick.
• The two great warriors, Achilles and Hector, also
got killed.
• The prince Paris, who started the war, died.
L is for Love
• In the beginning, Night and Erebus were
born out of Chaos. And thus out of Erebus
was born Love, which bought all beauty
and order to banish the confusion of
Chaos.
M is for the Muses
• There are nine muses: Clio, the Muse of
History; Urania, the Muse of Astronomy;
Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy; Thalia,
the Muse of Comedy; Terpsichore, the
Muse of the Dance; Calliope, the Muse of
Epic Poetry; Erato, the Muse of LovePoetry, and Euterpe, the Muse of Lyric
Poetry.
• The Roman name for Poseidon, the Ruler
of the Sea.
• Besides being the sea-god, he also gave
the horse to man.
• Commonly called the “Earth-shaker’; the
way the sea acted reflected on his attitude.
• A Titan. He was Lord of the river Ocean, a
great river that surrounded the Earth. He is
the father of the Oceanids, nymphs of the
great rivers, and of the Gods of all the
rivers on Earth.
• The daughter of Demeter.
• She was kidnapped by Hades and
became his Queen.
• She is with her mom for eight months of
the year, and for four months she is with
Hades as Queen of the Underworld.
• The wife of King Menelaus of Sparta.
• She was kidnapped by Prince Paris of
Troy, which led to the start of the Trojan
War.
• When Troy fell, she was sent back with
Menelaus back to Troy.
• The wife of Cronus, and former Queen of
the Universe.
• She is the mother of all the main six
Olympians.
• She helped Zeus by feeding Cronus a rock
instead of Zeus when he was born.
S is for Semele
• She is the mother of Bacchus, and is a
mortal woman.
• She died when Zeus appeared before
her in his immortal form.
• Bacchus brought her back from the
dead, and though a mortal woman,
went to live in Olympus with the Gods
and Goddesses.
T is for the Trojan War
• The Trojan War was a result of Paris, a Trojan
Prince, stealing away with Helen, a Greek
princess married to King Menelaus.
• It lasted for about 10 years.
• The three main warriors were Achilles and
Odysseus, for the Greeks, and Hector, for the
Trojans.
• The war ended with the Greek siege of Troy.
• The Underworld is the realm of the dead,
ruled by Hades.
• Cerberus, the three-headed dog, is the
guard of the Underworld.
• It is divides into two sections: Tartarus, the
prison of the dead, and Erebus, where the
dead pass when they die.
• It is a dark and shadowy place.
• Venus is the Roman name for Aphrodite, the Goddess of
Love.
• She is the wife of Hephaestus, the God of Fire.
• She is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, but is also said to
be born from the foam of the sea.
• The Wooden Horse was used by the Greeks to
sneak into Troy and siege it, ending the Trojan
War.
• It was the work of Odysseus.
• When the Trojans saw it, they thought it was a
gift from the Gods, which is why they let it in.
• The Greeks his inside it, and sneaked during the
night when the Trojans went to rest.
• The Xanthus, also called Scamander, is
the great river of Troy.
• During the Trojan War, the river tried to
drown Achilles as he tried to cross it,
though in vain.
Y is for the Goddess of Youth
• The Goddess of Youth is Hebe.
• She sometimes appears as the cupbearer
to the Gods.
• Not much is known about her except that
she married Hercules when he died and
became an immortal.
• Zeus is the main God, the supreme Ruler
of the Universe.
• He is also the Lord of the Sky.
• Zeus is known as a lady’s man for his
many affairs with mortal woman. Some of
his illegitimate offspring became famous
Gods or heroes.