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Greek Myths Major Gods and Goddesses Flashcards

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King of the underworld and the dead. God of wealth

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Hades

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Not often identifiable in Greek art, she appeared as a modestly veiled woman

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Hestia

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She is often depicted as a young woman dressed in a short knee-length chiton and equipped with a bow and a quiver of arrows

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Artemis

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Her sacred animals include the heifer, the peacock, and the cuckoo

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Hera

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Goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires

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Hera

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Virgin goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals and young girls

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Artemis

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Her symbols are the cornucopia, wheat-ears, the winged serpent, and the lotus staff

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Demeter

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He was depicted as a beardless youth, either nude with a helmet and spear or sword, or as an armed warrior

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Ares

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She had many lovers, most notably Ares, to whom she bore Harmonia, Phobos, and Deimos

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Aphrodite

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His Roman counterpart is Mercury

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Hermes

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Virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and chastity

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Hestia

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He was depicted either as a handsome and athletic beardless youth, or as an older bearded man

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Hermes

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He was the lover of Medusa, leading to her transformation into a Gorgon and to the birth of their two children, Pegasus and Chrysaor

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Poseidon

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His consort is Persephone

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Hades

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His consort is Amphitrite

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Poseidon

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Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure

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Aphrodite

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She was born from Zeus’s forehead, fully formed and armored

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Athena

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He is often in the company of his thiasos, a group of attendants including satyrs, maenads, and his old tutor Silenus

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Dionysus

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His Roman counterpart Vulcan was feared for his destructive potential and associated with the volcanic power of the earth

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Hephaestus

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Her Roman counterpart is Venus

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Aphrodite

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Her attributes include hunting spears, animal pelts, deer and other wild animals

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Artemis

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She is the oldest child of Rhea and Cronus

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Hestia

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Her symbols are the hearth and kettle

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Hestia

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Her sacred animal is a deer

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Artemis

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His sacred animals include the horse and the dolphin
Poseidon
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Goddess of grain, agriculture, harvest, growth, and nourishment
Demeter
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His Roman counterpart is Jupiter, also known as Jove
Zeus
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Her symbols include myrtle, roses, and the scallop shell
Aphrodite
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He is is depicted as young, beardless, handsome and athletic
Apollo
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God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery
Apollo
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Her sacred animals include doves and sparrows
Aphrodite
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He is the son of Zeus and Leto
Apollo
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God of boundaries, travel, communication, trade, language, thieves and writing
Hermes
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Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, and handicrafts
Athena
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Some late Roman and Greek poetry and mythography identifies him as a sun-god, equivalent to Roman Sol and Greek Helios
Apollo
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His sacred animals include the eagle and the bull
Zeus
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She is usually depicted as a nude or semi-nude beautiful woman
Aphrodite
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She is the twin sister of Apollo and both use a bow and arrow
Artemis
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His consort is Ariadne
Dionysus
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His sacred animals include the screech owl
Hades
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Her Roman counterpart Vesta was a major deity of the Roman state
Hestia
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He was usually depicted as a bearded, crippled man with hammer, tongs, and anvil
Hephaestus
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He is the twin brother of Artemis and both use a bow and arrow
Apollo
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His Roman counterpart Mars was considered to be the ancestor of the Roman people
Ares
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She is the wife and sister of Zeus
Hera
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He is depicted as either an older bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth
Dionysus
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His sacred animals include roe deer, swans, and pythons
Apollo
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His sacred animals include dolphins, serpents, tigers, and donkeys
Dionysus
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Her Roman counterpart is Ceres
Demeter
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She gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians in favor of Dionysus
Hestia
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Her Roman counterpart is Diana
Artemis
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Her Roman counterpart is Minerva
Athena
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God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes
Poseidon
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Her sacred animals include pigs and snakes
Demeter
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His Roman counterpart was Pluto
Hades
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His attributes are the drinking horn or cornucopia, key, sceptre, and the three-headed dog Cerberus
Hades
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His sacred animals include vultures, venomous snakes, dogs, and boars
Ares
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Poets describe her as grey-eyed or having especially bright, keen eyes
Athena
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King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus
Zeus
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His most famous temple is in Delphi, where he established his oracular shrine
Apollo
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His attributes include the thyrsus, a drinking cup, the grape vine, and a crown of ivy
Dionysus
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He is the twice-born son of Zeus and Semele
Dionysus
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The son of Zeus and Maia
Hermes
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His attributes include the herald's wand or caduceus, winged sandals, and a traveler's cap
Hermes
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God of fire, metalworking, and crafts
Hephaestus
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Zeus snatched him from his mother's womb and stitched him into his own thigh and carried him until he was ready to be born
Dionysus
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He is depicted as a mature man of sturdy build, often with a luxuriant beard, and holding a trident
Poseidon
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She is commonly shown as being accompanied by her sacred animal, the owl
Athena
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Homer portrays him as moody and unreliable, and as being the most unpopular god on earth and Olympus
Ares
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In the mystery religions and Athenian literature, Plouton ("the Rich one") was his preferred name
Hades
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She is a sister of Zeus, by whom she bore Persephone
Demeter
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The youngest son of Cronus and Rhea
Zeus
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She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto
Artemis
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He is the husband of the adulterous Aphrodite
Hephaestus
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Queen of the gods
Hera
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God of wine, fruitfulness, parties, festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, vegetation, ecstasy, and the theater
Dionysus
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The son of Zeus and Hera and brother to Hephaestus
Ares
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Bacchus was another name for him in Greek, and came into common usage among the Romans
Dionysus
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She is depicted as being crowned with a crested helm, armed with shield and spear, and wearing the aegis
Athena
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His signs and symbols include the laurel wreath, bow and arrow, and lyre
Apollo
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His Roman counterpart is Neptune
Poseidon
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She was also a lover to Adonis and Anchises, to whom she bore Aeneas
Aphrodite
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The son of Zeus and Hera and brother to Ares
Hephaestus
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She was usually depicted as a regal woman wearing a diadem and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff
Hera
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Her symbol is the olive tree
Athena
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God of the chaos of war, bloodshed, and violence
Ares
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His sacred animals include the donkey, the guard dog, and the crane
Hephaestus
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In Hesiod's Theogony, she was born from sea-foam and Uranus' severed genitals
Aphrodite
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He is the messenger of the gods and a guide who leads the souls of the dead into the afterlife
Hermes
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Her Roman counterpart is Juno
Hera
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His usual attributes are the royal scepter and the lightning bolt
Zeus
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In Homer's Illiad, she is daughter of Zeus and Dione
Aphrodite
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God of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice
Zeus
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She is depicted as a mature woman, often crowned and holding sheafs of wheat and a torch
Demeter
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She was married to Hephaestus, but bore him no children
Aphrodite
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He is often accompanied by the Muses
Apollo
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His sacred animals include the tortoise, from whose shell he invented the lyre for Apollo
Hermes
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He is known for having an affair with his brother's wife Aphrodite
Ares

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