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Greek
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English
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Roman
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Description
Aφροδίτη
(Aphroditē)
Aphrodite
Venus
Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. She was married to
Hephaestus. Ares is her lover and she loves him as well.
Eros is her son.
Aπόλλων
(Apollōn)
Apollo
Apollo
God of the Sun, music, archery, poetry, healing, and
prophecy. He is Artemis' twin brother, and Son to Zeus.
Άρης (Arēs)
Ares
Mars
God of war, murder and bloodshed. Brother to
Hephaestus, and is the lover of Aphrodite and son of
Zeus.
Άρτεμις
(Artemis)
Artemis
Diana
Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild animals,especially
deer and fawns, night, and the moon. Apollo is her twin
brother. Artemis is the virgin goddess and is also
protector of maidens.
Αθηνά
(Athēna)
Athena
Minerva
Goddess of wisdom, weaving, the arts, warfare and
reason. She is the favourite daughter of Zeus.
Δήμητρα
(Dēmētra)
Demeter
Ceres
Goddess of fertility, grain and harvest. Demeter is a sister
of Zeus. Her daughter is Persephone, Hades' wife.
Διόνυσος
(Dionysus)
Dionysus
Bacchus
God of wine, parties/festivals, madness and merriment.
He is a son of Zeus.
ᾍδης
(Hades)
Hades
Pluto
God of the Underworld. Brother of Poseidon and Zeus.
Ήφαιστος
Hephaestus Vulcan
(Hēphaistos)
God of fire and the forge. Ugly son of Hera and Zeus is
his father in some accounts. Married to Aphrodite, but
she does not love him because he is deformed and as a
result is cheating on him with Ares.
Ήρα (Hēra)
Hera
Juno
Goddess of marriage, women and childbirth. Zeus' wife
and sister.
Ερμής
(Hērmēs)
Hermes
Mercury
God of flight, thieves, commerce and travellers.
Messenger of the gods. Zeus's son by Titanness.
Poseidon
Poseidon
God of the sea, . His sons are the Heavenly Tripplets,
Polyphemus and Triton and the Cyclops. His weapon is a
Neptune
trident by which he can stir up the seas, wreck ships and
drown sailors.
Ζεύς (Zeus)
Zeus
Jupiter
The father of all fathers, the wisdom and light. The king
of the gods after killing his father, Kronos, who ate
Zeus's siblings but their mother managed to save baby
Zeus. When Zeus grew up, he fed Kronos a mixture of
wine and mustard to make him vomit his immortal
siblings who had grown up in Kronos's stomach. Zeus is
the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky,
thunder and lightning. Though he is married more than
once, his real queen is Hera. Zeus is the father of
Hermes, Hephaestus, Hercules, Dionysus, Athena, Ares,
Apollo, Artemis and Persephone.
There are twelve olympians, Hades is listed on this list and is sometimes called an Olymipian,
but he is not technally one of the twelve olympians.
Minor gods
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Eos - Goddess of dawn and sister of Selene and Helios
Helios - God of the sun and brother of Selene and Eos
Selene - Goddess of the moon and sister of Helios and Eos
Ariadne - goddess of passion and mazes (was a mortal princess engaged to Theseus but was
abandoned and married to the god Dionysus and made Immortal.)
Aeolus - god of winds (at birth was mortal made Immortal)
Asclepius - god of medicine.
Bia - Goddess of force.
Cratos - God of strength and power.
Deimos - Personification of terror; brother of Phobos.
Eris - Goddess of discord.
Eros - God of love
Psyche goddess of compassion
Geras - God of old age.
Ganymede cupbearer of the Olympians.
Harmonia - Goddess of harmony.
Hebe - Goddess of youth.
Hecate - Goddess of magic, witchcraft, necromancy and crossroads.
Hestia - Goddess of the hearth, fireside, family, and home, was one of the Olympians until
she gave up her throne on for Dionysus, occupies fire on Olympus.
Hypnos - God of sleep.
Janus - God of doors, gates and new beginnings.
Chione - Goddess of snow (her father is one of the gods of the winds).
Leto - mother of Artemis and Apollo.
Metis - mother of Athena
Enyo - goddesses of war and peacekeeping
Eileithyia - goddesses of childbirth
Momus- God of blame.
Moros - God of Doom.
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Nemisis - Goddess of consequences and revenge.
Nike - Goddess of victory.
Persephone - Goddess of spring and flowers and wife of Hades, hence queen of the
Underworld.
Phobos - God of Phobias and fear in general; brother of Deimos.
Thanatos- God of peaceful death.
The Erinyes - Otherwise known as The Furies. Goddesses of revenge.
The Horae - Actually two groups of separate goddesses worshiped in different periods: the
first three were goddesses of the seasons, the second generation were goddesses of law,
justice and order.
Tyche - Goddess of luck, destiny and fortune.
Zelus - God of dedication.
The Moirae: Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos - Controllers of life and destiny.
The Muses - Representatives of the arts, sciences and songs.
The Oneiroi: Morpheus, Phobetor and Phantasos - Personifications of dreams and sons of
Hypnos.
Pan - God of the Wild.
Iris (goddess) - Goddess of the rainbow.
Triton - god of ships, prince of Atlantis
Paean - doctor of the gods.
The Keres goddesses of violent Death.
The Charites - goddesses of charm, beauty, human creativity, and fertility.
Pallas - god of warfare
Melinoe - goddess of ghosts.