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The Olympians
Anthony, Leigha, Matt, Madeline, Shane, Mary Jess, Jaclyn, Mikayla,
and Katie V.
Gods
The gods were created so when something went wrong on Earth the people would
"blame" it on the gods. They had a huge impact on humans because the humans would worship and give offerings to the
gods, so that the gods would help them with their troubles, or not give anymore
punishments.
Zeus
God of the gods and of the sky, pictured with a
thunderbolt or lightning in his hand, Zeus was the most
powerful god. He had overturned his father Cronus
and seized power, and everything was ultimately in
his hands. Zeus was a weather god, as well as the
protector of the law, the state, the society, the city, the
family and strangers.
Hera
Zeus' sister and wife, daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Hera was the
queen of heaven and the gods and goddess of women and marriage.
She was generally described as an avenging goddess, punishing those that had displeased her severely. Her husband Zeus was constantly
unfaithful to her, and she had a lot of persecuting to do because of this.
Her children were Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe and Illyria and the Romans
called her Juno. Hera was the patron goddess of the landscape Argolis. In
Olympia her temple is even older than that of Zeus, and games to her honor were held there for women.
Poseidon
Poseidon is god of the sea and protector of all waters. Poseidon
is the brother of Zeus and Hades. When their father died they drew lots for shares of the earth. His prize was to become
lord of the sea. He was worshiped by seamen.
Poseidon married Amphitrite. Poseidon’s weapon is the
trident, which can shake the earth, and shatter any object. He is second to Zeus in power amongst the gods. Poseidon is
very greedy. He had some fights with other gods when he tried to
take over their cities.
Hades
Hades is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. When three
brothers drew lots of the world, Hades got the worst pick, the
underworld. He is now the god of the underworld, ruler of the
dead. He is also the god of wealth, due to the precious
metals mined from the earth. He has a helmet that makes him invisible. He rarely leaves the
underworld. His wife is Persephone whom Hades
abducted.
Aphrodite
Aphrodite [Roman name Venus] was the goddess of
love, beauty and fertility. When the Trojan prince
Paris was asked to judge which of three Olympian goddesses was the most
beautiful, he chose Aphrodite over Hera and Athena. She is the wife of
the ugliest of the gods, Hephaestus.
Cupid
Cupid was the god of love in Roman mythology. It was
commonly believed that Cupid was the son of Venus - the
Roman goddess of love . The ancient Romans often depicted Cupid as winged child or baby who carried a bow and quiver full of arrows. One story about
Cupid story is his relationship with the beautiful woman named Psyche. His Greek
name is Eros.
Apollo
Apollo is the god of the sun and he is the patron god of musicians and poets. Son of Zeus and Leto, twin
brother of Artemis. He is considered the ideal of manly beauty. He replaced the Titan Helios as the Sun god. He was
believed to bring about epidemics of disease.
That is because Artemis and Apollo were believed to shot arrows at
people to make them sick. So they would pray to Apollo and hope that
the epidemic would be stopped.
Ares
Ares (or Mars) has a planet named after him. The third
month of the year, March, in his honor. He was also a
god of agriculture. He is the patron god of the Romans because they were warlike people. He was a god who
took a savage delight in slaughter, and the hordes of
slain upon the battlefield filled him with a fierce joy. (He loved war and killing
others.)
Artemis
Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Apollo. Artemis is the great Olympian goddess of hunting, wilderness and wild animals. She is also a goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage. Artemis is also bringer of sudden death and disease, she targeted mostly females.
Athena
Daughter of Zeus, and only by him. She leaped from the head of Zeus, already adult, dressed with her armor. Zeus chose Metis as his first wife. As she was about to give birth to Athena, Zeus deceived his pregnant wife with cunning words and took her into his own body. She is, above all, the Goddess of the City, the protectress of civilized life, of artesian activities, and of agriculture.
Hephaestus
Hephaestus was the God of fire, especially a blacksmith's
furnace. He made all of the armor and weapons for the
gods. He was a very peaceful man. He was the son of Zeus
and Hera. He married Aphrodite but she never fully committed
herself to him. Hephaestus was also called Vulcan, son of
Jupiter and Juno. He was the God of fire and of volcanoes. He
was the husband of Maia and Venus.
Hestia
Hestia was the most gentle and charitable of all the gods. She is the goddess of the hearth, and doesn't play a role in any of the
myths. She was the sister of Zeus and the oldest of the Olympians.
Her Roman name was Vesta. Vesta was just like Hestia, but
she also was the goddess of the personification of the ceremonial flame. Vestal virgins took a vow of chastity for 30 years during
which they honored her.
Hermes
Hermes supposedly invented boxing and
gymnastics. He was the son of Zeus and the constellation Maia. He was the fastest of all the gods. Hermes carries around a magic wand and
wears a winged sandals and hat. His roman name is Mercury. Hermes is the
messenger god. He was a trickster and a friend of
thieves.
Demeter
Demeter is the goddess of harvest. Her Roman
name is Ceres. She was the sister of Zeus. Her
daughter is Persephone. Her daughter lives with Hades each winter and
during that time no crops will grow.
Persephone
Persephone is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus (before Zeus' marriage with Hera). Her sisters are Athena and Aphrodite. After
she was kidnapped, Hades (Zeus' brother) tricked her into eating a pomegranate, which made her
Queen of the dead. Also by eating it, it meant she couldn't return to
her mother, so she made a compromise she would visit her
mother occasionally, but when she was in the underworld, it was
winter- which her mother made terrible because of her grief of her
daughter. She was married to Hades.
Dionysus
Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele (a mortal). God of wine
and festivities. Dionysus is called "twice born. "He is called this
because of the unusual manner in which he grew, which was in the
womb, and the thigh. Hera tricked Semele to prove her knowledge of Zeus being a God. So, Zeus had no choice but to reveal himself.
The lightning brightness that was his divinity killed Semele, but first,
Zeus took the unborn from her womb and sewed it inside his thigh. There it developed until it was time
for birth. His symbols are ivy, snakes, and grapes.
PanPan was the son of Hermes and
Penelope in some myths and the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto in
others. He was the god of flocks and shepherds. He is mostly human in
appearance but with goat horns and goat feet. He is a musician and plays the pipes. He is merry and playful. He
is at home in any wild place but is favorite is Arcady where he was born. He is always in pursuit of one of the
nymphs but always rejected because he is ugly.
His name is the basis for the word "panic". There are two differing
explanations for this. The first is that he was present when Zeus defeated the Titans and claimed that it has his yelling that caused the Titans to flee. However, this seems at odds with his being Hermes son. The second is that he created the noises in the woods at
night the scared travelers.
Janus Janus was used to symbolize change
and transitions. Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as marriages, births and other beginnings. He was representative of the middle ground between barbarity and civilization, rural country and urban cities, and
youth and adulthood. They had many children, including Tiberinus. Janus and his later wife, Juturna, were the parents of Fontus. Another wife was
named Jana. Historically, however, he was one of the few Roman gods who
had no ready-made Greek counterpart, or analogous mythology.
As the sole ruler of Latium, Janus heralded the Golden Age, introducing money, laws and agriculture (making
him a culture hero).
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