Greek Gods

Zeus (Greek)Jupiter (Roman)

• Head honcho• Top God (and top dog)• Master of the earth and skies• Home: Mt. Olympus• True form = pure light• Womanizer• High soaring eagle sacred to

him.

Poseidon (Greek)Neptune (Roman)

• God of the seas• Associated with water in

all forms including clouds

• Essential to agriculture• Created springs• Caused floods and tidal

waves when angered

Hades (Greek)Pluto (Roman)

• Third son of Rhea and Kronos (Saturn)

• Shared control of the world with Zeus and Poseidon

• Domain the underworld

Hera (Greek)Juno (Roman)

• God of storms• Turbulent relationship with

husband (Zeus/Jupiter)• Fertile• Fickle• Punished immoral behavior• God of marriage

Athena/Minerva And Aphrodite/Venus

• Aphrodite• God of love• Qualities of beauty and nobility

Coarseness, decadence, corruption

AthenaGod of war (defense)God of wisdomLed battles to victory in

peace and prosperityAssociated with the owl

& the shield

Artemis And DemeterDemeter

•God of the earth•Watched over the growth of grain and cereals•Hades took daughter•Taught the art of agriculture. Artemis: virgin goddess of fertility; the

protector of flocks of sheep; goddess of the hunt and the forest; identified with the moon; Apollo was her twin brother.

Dionysos And Hephaestus

Dionysos/Bacchus: god of wine and theatre; associated with joyous celebrations. His father was Zeus.

Hephaestus /Vulcan: blacksmith of the gods; personifies the fire in the earth that emerges from volcanoes; portrayed as being deformed. The son of Zeus and Hera.

Apollo

• Sun god• God of music and • Associated with youth and

strength• Physical aspect of Apollo is

also known as Helios or Hyperion.

Ares And HermesAres/Mars• God of war• Thought of

as enjoying slaughter and massacre

• Son of Zeus and Hera

• Loved war for destruction sake

Hermes/Mercury: Patron god of traders and commerce and thieves and rogues; messenger of the gods, led the dead through underworld.

PersephonePersephone: daughter of Demeter and Zeus; personification of young, blooming life taken prisoner by Hades.

Demeter's neglect of the world while she was searching for her daughter brought famine to the world. Demeter persuaded Hades to release Persephone but before she left, Demeter's daughter ate the food of the underworld which meant that she could not leave. Eventually she was forced to spend only part of the year in the underworld and that time is what we know as winter, the season of death.

The EndBy Shaleen Fullmer