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Greek Gods, Goddesses, & Heroes
Greek name
Roman name
Description
The Olympians
Apollo
Apollo
Greek god of prophecy, music, intellectual pursuits, healing, plague, and
sometimes, the sun
Ares
Mars
god of war, battle lust, civil order and manly courage
Hermes
Mercury
Zeus
Jupiter
Hera
Juno
Poseidon
Neptune
the god of shepherds, travelers, merchants, and even thieves, and he also had
the role of herald (messenger) of the gods.
Zeus is father of gods and men. A sky god, he controls lightning, which he
uses as a weapon, and thunder. He is king on Mount Olympus, the home of
the Greek gods
Olympian queen of the gods and the goddess of women and marriage. She
was also a goddess of the sky and starry heavens.
God of Sea, but he was also the god of earthquakes and horses.
Dionysus
Bacchus
Artemis
Diana
Athena
Minerva
Hephaestus
Vulcan
Demeter
Ceres
Aphrodite
Venus
Hades
Pluto
Persephone
Calliope
The Titans
Aeolus
Helios
Sol
god of wine and drunken revelry in Greek mythology. He is a patron of the
theater and an agricultural/fertility god
Olympian goddess of hunting, wilderness and wild animals. She was also a
goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of
marriage
the patron goddess of Athens, the goddess of wisdom, a goddess of arts and
crafts (agriculture, navigation, spinning, weaving, and needlework), the
favorite daughter of her father Zeus, and, as a war goddess with a focus on
strategy more than bloodshed, an active participant in the Trojan War. She
gave Athens the gift of the olive tree, providing oil, food, and wood.
Greek god of volcanoes, a craftsman and blacksmith.
Demeter is a goddess of fertility, grain, and agriculture. She is pictured as a
mature motherly figure. Although she is the goddess who taught mankind
about agriculture, she is also the goddess responsible for creating winter and
a mystery religious cult.
goddess of beauty, love, and sexuality
the King of the Underworld, the god of death and the dead. He presided over
funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial. Haides was also
the god of the hidden wealth of the earth, from the fertile soil with nourished
the seed-grain, to the mined wealth of gold, silver and other metals.
Goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides. She was also the
goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother
Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. This agricultural-based cult promised
its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife.
was the eldest of theMuses, the goddesses of music, song and dance. She was
also the goddess of eloquence, who bestowed her gift on kings and princes.
god of the winds (Anemoi) who lived on the floating island of Aeolia. He
played an important part in the Odyssey as the one who gave Odysseus the
bag of winds to blow the ships home to Ithaca. Unfortunately, the crew
thought Odyseeus was hiding gold and opened the bag, letting out the winds
in the opposite direction towards the island of Lipara.
Greek sun god and the sun itself.
She wasn’t a goddess, but a sorceress/enchantress (she was considered a
goddess because she was immortal). Beautiful witch who lived on the island
Aeaea, near Italy. Her father was the sun-god Helios and her mother the sea
nymph Perse. Surrounding her palace were wild animals wich were tame,
since they really were bewitched humans.
Circe
Prometheus
the Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was entrusted with the
task of moulding mankind out of clay. Prometheus is famous for a couple of
seemingly unrelated stories: (1) the gift of fire to mankind and (2) being
chained to a rock where every day an eagle came to eat his liver. There is a
connection, however, and one that shows why Prometheus, the father of the
Greek Noah, was called the benefactor of mankind.
Cronus
Saturn
Atlas
Perseus
Gaea
Uranus
Eos
Aurora
The Heroes
Achilles
Theseus
Jason
Since the Titan Cronus was too old, Atlas led the other Titans in their 10year battle against Zeus, which is called the Titanomachy. After the gods
won, Zeus singled Atlas out for punishment, by making him carry the
heavens on his shoulders. Most of the Titans were confined to Tartarus.
Greek demigod, son of Zeus and Danae (a mortal).Best known for his clever
decapitation of Medusa, whose head turned people to stone. He also rescued
Andromeda from the sea monster.
Was the Protogenos (primeval divinity) of earth, one of the primal elements
who first emerged at the dawn of creation, along with air, sea and sky. She
was the great mother of all : the heavenly gods were descended from her
union with Ouranos (the sky), the sea-gods from her union with Pontos (the
sea), the Gigantes from her mating with Tartaros (the hell-pit) and mortal
creatures were sprung or born from her earthy flesh.
the sky god and first ruler. He is the son of Gaea , who created him without
help. He then became the husband of Gaea and together they had many
offspring, including twelve of the Titans.
Eos the goddess of Dawn was the daughter of two Titans, Hyperion and
Theia. She was the sister of Helios (the Sun) and of Selene (the Moon).
Demi-god who had exceptional strength, stamina & resistance to injury. He
was stronger, faster than most human beings, but not to a superhuman
degree—weakness was his heal.
Greek hero, especially national hero of Athens; slayer of the Minotaur.
founder-king of Athens
He is best known for his role in retrieving The Golden Fleece.
Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae, a kingdom of legendary Greece. The
leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War*, he is one of the central figures in
the Iliad, Homer's epic poem about the war. Greek writers generally portray
Agamemnon as courageous but also as arrogant and overly proud, flaws that
sometimes cause him misfortune and eventually lead to his death.
Agamemnon
Heracles
the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine
descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his
father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was
overthrown by his own sons, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, and
imprisoned in Tartarus.
Hercules
Heracles was the most famous of the Greek mythological heroes; Heracles
was compelled to perform a series of heroic tasks, or Labors. Amongst these
were slaying the many-headed Hydra, retrieving the Golden Apples of the
Hesperides and bringing the hellhound Cerberus up from the Underworld.
Heracles was also one of the Argonauts.