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MAJOR GODS Mythology

Zeus (Jupiter) God of the sky, lightening, hospitality. Attributes: lightening bolt, eagle

Poseidon (Neptune) God of the sea, earthquakes, horses and bulls. Attributes: trident and a sea chariot.

Hades (Pluto) God of the Underworld, Zeus’s brother. Attributes: invisibility cap

Demeter (Ceres) goddess of fertility and crops, goddess of the earth, mother of Persephone (Proserpina) Attributes: cornucopia

Hera (Juno) wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage and (sometimes) childbirth, persecuted Zeus’s mistresses. Attributes: peacock

Hermes (Mercury) messenger of Zeus, god of boundaries, thieves, commerce, escorts souls to the Underworld. Attributes: wand with a snakes, winged sandals.

Athena (Minerva) Virgin goddess of arts and crafts, war, calculated, rational warfare. Attributes: armor, breastplate with Gorgon, owl.

Aphrodite (Venus) goddess of love, beauty, desire, wife of Hephaestus Attributes: doves, beauty.

Hephaestus (Vulcan) god of smiths, metalwork, craftsman, creative divinity. Attributes: smith, works metal, lame god.

Ares (Mars) god of war and strife, reckless, uncalculated fighting. Attributes: totally jacked.

Artemis (Diana) virgin goddess of chase and hunt, loves animals, hates men Attributes: bow and arrows, a deer

Apollo (Apollo) God of the sun, medicine, prophecy, music, rational thinking. Attributes: bow and arrows, swans

Dionysus (Bacchus) God of wine, revelry, irrational thinking, was born of Zeus’s thigh. Attributes: wine cup, long wand covered with ivy (thyrsus), panther, tigers

Hestia (Vesta) Goddess of the hearth (home fire), in Rome symbolized eternal fire of Ancient Rome, tended by the Vestal Virgins.

Know answers to the following questions… 1.What did Cronus do to his own children? Why did he do this? 2.How did Cronus’s wife Rhea trick her husband and save her son Zeus? 3.Why did Cronus regurgitate his children? 4.How did Zeus defeat the Titans? 5.Who made the thunderbolt for Zeus (Jupiter)? 6.How did Hera react to Zeus’s infidelity?

Know answers to the following questions… 7.Who won in the contest between Poseidon and Athena? How? 8.What is the Spring of Lethe? 9.What happened to Demeter’s daughter Persephone? 10.How was Athena born?