REALM OF AUTHORITY
The sky and weather
Parents: Cronus and
Rhea
Birth: tricked Dad into eating a rock so he could come back and conquer him later
Guest-Friendship
(Hospitality)
Married to Hera/
Juno
Plants and Symbols
The Eagle
The Oak Tree Thunderbolt

REALM OF AUTHORITY
Marriage
Parents:
Cronus and Rhea
Birth: was swallowed by her father, but late saved by Zeus!
Childbirth
Married to Zeus/
Jove
Plants and Symbols
The Peacock The pomegranate

Famous Connections….
The tale of Io and Argus

Parents:
Cronus and Rhea
Birth: was swallowed by his father, but later saved by Zeus!
Realm of authority: underworld wealth?
Plants and Symbols:
Cerberus
Cypress Tree
Married to
Persephone
Cap of invisibility
Famous Connections:
Kidnapping Persephone Orpheus & Eurydice

REALM OF AUTHORITY
Harvest
Seasons
Parents:
Cronus and Rhea
Birth: was swallowed by her father, but later saved by Zeus!
SINGLE! 
Plants and Symbols
Wheat The Torch
A lion

Famous
Connections…
The Abduction and Search for Persephone
& the Eleusinian Mysteries

Plants and Symbols
The hearth
(fireplace)
Pigs and Donkeys
*Most sacred of the gods
REALM OF AUTHORITY
Hearth
Home
SINGLE
Parents:
Cronus and Rhea
Birth: was swallowed by her father, but later saved by Zeus!
*eldest

Famous Connections
Vestal Virgins of Rome
(priestesses in charge of guarding the city’s sacred flame)
- Honored in society and had great privileges
- Punishment for letting the flame go out breaking the vow was burial alive!

REALM
OF
AUTHORITY
Parents:
Cronus and Rhea
Birth: was swallowed by his father, but later saved by Zeus!
Sea
Married to
Amphitrite
Earthquakes
Trident
Plants and Symbols
Horses
Bull
Dolphins

Famous Connections
Foundation of Athens
Poseidon
& a fountain of salty water
VS.
Athena
& an olive tree

Single!

REALM OF AUTHORITY wisdom
War strategy arts
Plants and Symbols
Armor/spears Olive Tree
The Owl The Aegis

The Birth of Athena: Parents: Zeus and Metis
Famous Connections:
Arachne The Parthenon

Realm of authority:
War
Parents:
Zeus and Hera
Birth: Juno bore him alone (one version)
(Agriculture – Romans)
Plants and Symbols:
Spear
Boar
Single!
Famous Connections:
Father of Romulus and Remus Trapped with Venus

Plants and
Symbols
Doves/swans
Shell
Myrtle -->
Magic Girdle
REALM OF AUTHORITY
Love
Married to
Hephaestus
Beauty
Parents: formed out of sea foam – or in other versions, Zeus and Dione

Famous Connections:
(Many!)
Pygmalion and Galatea
Adonis
Cupid (Eros) and Psyche

REALM OF AUTHORITY blacksmiths And Forges
Technology
Fire
Volcanoes
Parents:
Zeus and Hera
Birth: thrown from
Mt Olympus? = crippled leg
Married to
Venus
Plants and Symbols
Hammer, Anvil, and an axe
Famous Connections: being thrown from Mt.
Olympus; Achilles’ shield

SINGLE
Parents:
Zeus and Leto
Birth: Leto was shunned from every land due to Hera’s jealousy and gave birth on the island of
Delos
REALM OF
AUTHORITY
Sunlight
Archery
Medicine
Prophecy
Music/poetry/Art
< Lyre
Plants and Symbols
Bow and Arrows
Python Laurel Wreath

Famous Connections: the Python
&
The Delphic
Oracle
Niobe 
Daphne and Apollo

REALM OF AUTHORITY
The Hunt
Wilderness
(The moon)
Maidenhood
Plants and Symbols
Stags and Bears
Bow and Arrows
Hunting Dogs cypress tree
Single!
Parents:
Zeus and Leto
Birth: Leto was shunned from every land due to
Hera’s jealousy and gave birth on the island of
Delos

Famous Connections: Orion
Callisto
(Ursa Major and Ursa Minor)
Actaeon and Diana

Single
Plants and
Symbols
Caduceus >
Tortoise
Winged Sandals
REALM OF AUTHORITY
Commerce thieves
Borders travel
Messenger of the gods
Parents:
Zeus and
Maia

Famous Connections: Stealing the cows of Apollo and inventing the lyre!

REALM OF AUTHORITY
Wine
Rebirth
Theatre
Married to
Ariadne
Parents:
Zeus, Semele (and
Persephone)
Birth: 3 different birth stories!
merriment
Fertility
Plants and Symbols
Thyrsus
Grapevines
Leopard Skin and wild cats
Maenads

Famous Connections:
Saving Ariadne
Dionysus & the Pirates
King Midas
Pentheus