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Hera/ Juno

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queen of gods, marriage and child-birth

often jealous, hates Troy, peacock is her bird(eyes of argus), doesn’t get apple

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Zeus/ Jupiter, Jove

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king of gods

thunderbolt, many affairs, justice

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Demeter/ Ceres

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fertile earth, grain

loves daughter Persephone, fights to get her back for 6 months

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Poseidon/ Neptune

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ocean

married to Amphitrite, affairs with Scylla and medusa

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Hades/ Pluto

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underworld

implacable, never changes mind, steals Persephone

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Apollo/ Apollo

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sun, music, prophecy, healing, illness

loves daphne–laurel, loves Cassandra, jealous of Orion

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Artemis/ Diana

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moon, hunt

punishes Acteon, loves and kills Orion, saves Iphigenia

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Athena(Pallas)/ Minerva

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wisdom, military, intelligence

punishes Arachne, blinds Tiresias, owl, patron goddess of Athens-gives olive tree

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Ares/ Mars

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war

frequently loses, rash and brutal, accompanied by disorder and strife son of Zeus and Hera, lover of Aphrodite

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Aphrodite/ Venus

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love

married to Hephaestus, lover of Area, reward Pygmalion

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Atlas/ Atlas

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Titan

holds the world aloft, Theseus tricks him

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Cronus/ Saturn

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Titan lord, father to Zeus

eats his children, overthrew his father

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Dionysus/ Bacchus

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wine, revelry

effeminate youth, accompanied by bacchantes was, represent emotion and joy

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Eris

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discord

throws golden apple, accompanies Area

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Eros/ Cupid

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Love 
loves psyche(soul), has arrows that create or block love
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Hermes/ Mercury

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messenger of the gods, commerce, traveler

trickster God, wand gives sleep, winged sandals

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Hephaestus/ Vulcan

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fire, metal working 
lame god(defend mom), married to Aphrodite, son of Zeus and Hera
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Persephone/ Proserpine

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spring

daughter of Demeter, married to hades, called Hecate when she is with hades

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Prometheus/ Prometheus

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titan

father to man, gave fire to mankind, punished by eagle that eats his liver, eventually freed

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Gaea

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element

the earth

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Uranus

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element

the sky, husband of Gaea, fathers Titans, swallows children, supplanted by son Cronus

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Pontus

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element

the harmonious sea with its sterile waves

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Nereus

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element

the old man in the sea, trident

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Rhea

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Titan

marries Cronus, gives birth to 6 gods

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Helios

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Titan

the Sun, father to Phaeton

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Empimetheus

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Titan

friend to man, brother of Prometheus, marries pandora

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Acteon

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hunter who saw Artemis naked, turned into stag, killed by his own dogs

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Amphitrite

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wife of Poseidon, jealous

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Arachne

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wonderful weaver who compared self to Athena, vied in his weaving contest Athena turned her into a spider to weave forever

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Argus

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Hera’s servant with 100 eyes, set to guard callisto(Zeus’s lover turned into bear) Hermes put his eyes to sleep and beheaded him, Hera put his eyes on the tail of peacock

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Callisto

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lover of Zeus, he turned her into a bear to hide her from Hera, eventually she and her son were placed into heaven as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

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Cassandra

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loved by Apollo, he gives gift of prophecy but takes away her power to be believed

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daphne

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loved by Apollo, he chases her and she becomes a laurel tree, he always wears a laurel wreath in her honor

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Jason

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hero who wins the Golden Fleece, married madea

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Madea

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married Jason, helps win the fleece, kills everyone when Jason leaves her

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Medusa

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seduced by Poseidon in temple of Athena, Athena turns her hair into snakes

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Niobe

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brags about her 14 children, Apollo and Artemis kills them all, she cries until she turns to stone and still cries

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Oedipus

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son of Laius and Jocasta of Thebes, marries mother and kills father, blinds self when he finds out, father of polynices, eteocles, Antigone and ismene

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Orion

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lover of Artemis, she mistakenly kills him, he becomes a constellation, great hunter

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Scylla

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lover of Poseidon, turned into sea monster by Amphitrite

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Tiresias

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sees Athena naked, she blinds him, gives him gift of sight into the future because his sin was inadvertent

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pandora

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wife given by gods to Epimetheus, out of curiosity she looks in the the box he keeps hidden, all the ills and evils of the world are let loose upon humanity, eventually she opens the box all the way to let out hope, which always flies more slowly

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