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- Most Elder gods
- Sons and daughters of Gaea and Ouranos
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- Father of Zeus
- Greatest of the Titans
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- Savior of mankind through fire
- Name means "forethought"
- Bound with adamantine chains to a rock in the Caucasus
- Red eagle feasts on his liver
- Represents rebellion against tyranny
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- Supreme ruler of gods
- Son of the titan Cronus
- Unfaithful to his wife
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Chronus had been told he would be overthrown by one of his sons, so he ate each one up as they were born, but his wife Rhea secretly snuck him off to Crete when he was born and replaced the baby with a giant rock, which Ceonus ate instead.
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- wife of Zeus
- always jealous
- Protector of marriage
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- Zeus's brother
- Ruler of the sea
- Rode over sea in golden car
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- Brother of Zeus
- Ruler of the underworld
- Stole Persephone away to be his wife
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- Daughter of Zeus, sprang from his head
- Battle-goddess
- Protector of civilized life, handicraft, and agriculture
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- Son of Zeus and Leto
- Master musician of Olympus
- Taught men the healing arts
- God of truth and light
- God of the Oracle at Delphi
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- Twin sister of Apollo
- Maiden goddess
- Lady of Wild Things
- Prevented Greek fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her
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The trinity of Godesses: - moon,
- huntress,
- the darkness
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- Goddess of Love and Beauty
- Born of foam off the coast of Cyprus
- Often seen as wife of Hephaestus
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- Son of Zeus
- Messenger god
- Swiftest and most cunning god
- The Master Thief
- God of Commerce and the Market
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- Son of Zeus and Hera
- God of War
- Sister is Discord, Strife her son
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- Son of Zeus and Hera
- God of Fire and the Forge
- The Armorer and Smith of the gods
- Husband of Aphrodite
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- Zeus's sister
- Virgin goddess
- Goddess of the Hearth
- Hearth dedicated to her in every city, where fire cannot go out
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- God of Love
- Usually son of Aphrodite
- Lover of Psyche
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- Goddess of the rainbow
- Messenger of the gods
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- Daughters of Zeus
- Nine in number
- "We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know, when we will, to utter true things."
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- Water nymphs
- Live in brooks, springs, fountains
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The deeper area of the underworld The area where the dead pass as soon as they die |
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The aged boatman who ferries souls into the land of the dead |
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- Lulled to sleep by Orpheus's harp
- Eats a cake from Psyche and lets her pass
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- Punish evildoers in the underworld according to Virgil
- Also called "The Furies"
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- Son of Hermes
- Invented the reed pipe
- Born in Arcady
- Goatherds' and shepherds' god
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- Jovial fat old man
- Companion of Pan and Bacchus
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Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces) |
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- Brothers who lived half time in earth, half time in heaven
- Protectors of sailors
- One mortal born of Leda and Agamemnon; one immortal born of Leda and Zeus
- Rescued Helen from Theseus
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- Part man, part horse
- Seen on many Greek vases
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- Goat men
- Lived in the wild places of the earth
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Aeolus Boreas Zephyr Notus Eurus |
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- King of the Winds
- North Wind
- West Wind
- South Wind
- East Wind
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Centaur known for his goodness and wisdom |
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Moirae/Parcae: Clotho Lachesis Atropos |
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The Fates: The Spinner The Disposer of Lots The Cutter of the Thread |
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- God of good beginnings
- One young and one old face
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- Goddess of the corn
- Lost her daughter to the land of the underworld
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- Born in Thebes
- His mother was struck dead by lightning as he was born
- God of the Vine
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- She was a heifer, he was bound to a rock
- Both in this position because of Zeus
- She was mother of the man who would set him free
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- Born by a bull across the sea
- Mother of two great kings who became the judges of the dead
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- Cyclops who was tricked by Odysseus
- Cared for sheeps and ram
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