Gods and Goddesses
o Ruler of the
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Olympians
Realm: the Heavens
Weapon: Lightning
bolt
Sacred animal: Eagle
Husband to Hera (his
sister)
Liked pretty women
(a lot!)
Terrifying when
angry
o Wife of Zeus
o Mother of Haephestus
o Realm: generally
Heavens
o Guardian of marriage
o Extremely jealous of
Zeus’s girlfriends –
was often cruel to
those women
o Animal: Peacock
God of the Seas
Realm: the Oceans
Weapon: Trident
Brother to Zeus, Hades
God of Earthquakes
Percy Jackson’s father
o God of the
Underworld, the dead
o Brother to Zeus,
Poseidon
o Wife: Persephone
(Porsepine in Roman);
he kidnapped her
o Gloomy and
frightening
o He does NOT talk like
James Woods
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Goddess of wisdom and
war/strategic planning (in
Roman tradition, Minerva is
NOT the goddess of war;
only the goddess of
wisdom)
Daughter of Zeus – sprang
completely formed from
Zeus’s head, after he had a
bad headache
Protector of the city of
Athens
Prefers reason to violence
Turned Arachne into a
spider for bragging about
weaving
She carries Zeus’s shield,
Aegis
Animal: the owl
o Twin to Artemis
o God of the sun (or light).
Also of poetry, music and
medicine
o His oracles (women who
predict the future) were
famous – Oracle at
Delphi most popular
o Symbols: Golden bow
and arrows
o Wears a laurel wreath in
honor of Daphne, who
didn’t want to marry him
and was turned into a
laurel tree to get away
from him
o Twin of Apollo
o Goddess of the hunt,
chastity, the moon
o Virgin goddess
o Protector of women.,
small children
o Independent
o Doesn’t like men
o Symbols: 3 hunting
hounds; bow; fawn
o Realm: Forest. glades
o Is a Titan, not an
Olympian
o Born of the sea foam and
blood of Uranus
o Goddess of love and
beauty
o Wife of Hephaestus
o Charming, fickle, vain
and competitive
o Symbol: Cestus (magic
belt)
o Mother of Eros
o Has a relationship with
Ares
o God of science and
invention
o Messenger of the
gods
o Symbols: Winged
helmet, winged
shoes
o Said to have
invented the
alphabet, boxing
and gymnastics
o Realm: All realms
o God of war and
frenzy
o Would fight both
sides of a war if he
could
o Young, strong,
handsome
o Dressed only in
battle clothes
o Realm: battlefields
o Son of Hera
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God of the Forge;
blacksmith
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Realm: the Gods’ forge
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Born lame; the only
Olympian with a disability
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Hera threw him off Mount
Olympus when she was
angry, making his lameness
worse
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Married to Aphrodite (not a
happy marriage)
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Made Zeus’s lightning bolts
as well as most of the
famous weaponry for other
Olympians
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Was the creator of
Pandora
o Goddess of the hearth
(fireplace) and home
o Sister to Zeus
o Did not have a lot of
adventures, so she
rarely appears in art.
o Realm: the home
o Kind and gentle
o Once had a throne on
Mount Olympus, but
stepped down to allow
Dionysus the throne.
She retired to tend the
hearth.
o Goddess of the harvest
o Symbols: torch; crown;
scepter; stalk of grain
o Daughter: Persephone
o Demeter was so distraught
with the kidnap of
Persephone, she halted crop
growth. In a deal with Hades,
he agreed Persephone could
return to the world of the
living 6 months out of the year.
The other 6 months she would
stay in the Underworld. It is
during those 6 months that the
earth goes through fall and
winter
o Realm: Fields of crops
o Son of Zeus (by another
woman not Hera)
o Called “Twice Born”
o God of wine, vegetation
o Major partier!
o Taught people how to make
wine and have a good time
o Took over the throne Hestia
vacated
o Realm: Grapevines
o Maenads; “raving ones”:
Women followers of Dionysus
who drank and often times
would lose self-control and
engage in immoral behaviors
including cannibalism and
murder.