Mythology
Diego Ybarra & Anthony Thai
Cupid (God of Love)
• Mother: Venus (Goddess of Beauty) (Also referred to as
Aphrodite in Greek Mythology)
• Father: Mars (God of War)
• Spouse: Psyche
• Siblings: Anteros (God of requited love)
• Children: Voluptas (Goddess of Pleasure)
• Symbol: Bow, Arrow, Heart, etc.
• Powers: Can make anyone fall in love with the first person
they see with just a strike with an arrow to the heart.
• Weaknesses: Often careless on how he shoots his arrows,
Venus then punishes him.
Description: God of Love; Makes people fall in
love with others instantly.
Important Events: Oracle of Apollo, Psyche’s
unfaithfulness, Cupid finding Psyche.
Allusions: Being a matchmaker.
Psyche
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Mother: Unknown mortal Queen
Father: Unknown mortal King
Spouse: Cupid (God of Love)
Siblings: 3 sisters who were never identified.
Children: Voluptas (Goddess of Pleasure)
Symbol: Butterfly
Powers: N/A
Weaknesses: She believes the lies of Venus.
• Description: The youngest mortal daughter of
a Queen and King falls in love with The God of
Love, Cupid and she must go through trails
and tribulations to stay with Cupid.
• Important Events: Psyche’s trails, Psyche’s
unfaithfulness, Oracle of Apollo, Cupid finding
her.
• Allusions: The TV show “The Bachelor”
Aphrodite (Goddess of Pleasure) (Also
another name for Venus in Greek
Mythology)
• Mother: Dione
• Father: Zeus (King of all Gods)
• ***Some say she was born from the foam of
the Ocean.
• Spouse: Hephaestus (God of Metal Working
and Stone Masonry)
• Siblings: Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus
(Aphrodite was his half-sister)
• Children: Cupid, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia,
Himeros, Anteros, Pothos, Peitho,
Hermaphroditus, Eunomia & Tyche, Rhodos,
Priapus, Hymenaeus, Rhode, Herphroditus,
Beroe, Aenaes, Lyros, and Eryx.
• Symbol: Scallop shell, Dolphins, Doves, Lovebirds.
• Powers: She can make any man fall in-love with
her at first sight.
• Weaknesses: Vanity, jealousy, affairs with other
men.
• Description: A beautiful woman who married her
half-brother Hephaestus has the power to make
any man fall in-love with her at first sight.
• Important Events: Hephaestus caught her and
Ares in an unbreakable golden net and had all of
the Gods to laugh at them, and during the Trojan
War she was injured by Diomedes (A mortal).
• Allusions: Her symbol being a dove she can be
tied to “Dove Soap” because it is suppose to
make you appear more beautiful.
The Graces
• Mother: Eurynome
• Father: Zeus (King of Gods)
• Spouse: Angaela- Abas (Son of Lynceus) (Rest were not
identified)
• Siblings: Thalia, Agaela, and Euphroyne (All sisters)
• Children: Agaela had children with 2 Gods. 2 children
from Abas were Acrisuis (King of Argos) and Proetus
(King of Argos & Tiryns). 2 other children she had were
with Amythaon, and they were Melapus and Bias.
• Symbol: Flower which represents beauty.
• Powers: Spreading joy to others.
• Weaknesses: They were sometimes vindictive.
• Description: 3 sisters all with stunning beauty
were children of Eurynome and Zeus. They
always drew the eyes of men everywhere.
• Important Events: *None that included all 3
sisters.
• Allusions: A 19th century neoclassical sculpture by
Antonio Canova.
Hephaestus (God of Metalworking and
Stone Masonry)
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Mother: Hera
Father: Zeus
Spouse: Aphrodite (Half-sister)
Siblings: Ares, Eileithyia, Enyo, Athena, Apollo, Artemis,
Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Hercules, Helen of
Troy, Perseus, and Minos.
• Children: Thalia, Eucleia, Eupheme, Philophrosyne,
Cabeiri, and Euthenia.
• Symbol: Hammer, Anvil, and Tongs.
• Powers: Made all the tools and weapons for the Gods
on Mount Olympus.
• Both of his legs broke when his mother, Hera,
threw him off of Mount Olympus at birth
because he was ugly.
• Important Events: Hera throwing him off
Mount Olympus, Aphrodite thought he was
ugly so she had an affair with Ares, and he
embarrassed Aphrodite and Ares when he
caught them.
• Allusions: Hephaestus matches