Most of this class of god, however, were non-Olympian marine divinities.THE THEOI IATRIKOI were the gods of medicine and healing. These belonged to the train of Apollo and included his son the medicine-god Asclepius, and his family : Epione (Soothing), Hygeia (Good Health), Panaceia (...
POSEIDON was the Olympian god of the sea, earthquakes, floods, drought and horses. He was depicted as a mature man with a sturdy build and dark beard holding a trident (a three-pronged fisherman's spear).MYTHSAt birth Poseidon was swallowed whole by his father Kronos (Cronus), but Zeus ...
Primeval God of the Sky Ouranos was his own stepfather, and had some serious sibling rivalry with his children. Eventually a bunch of them got together and cut off his penis, after which he either died or disappeared, depending on who you ask. Aphrodite Olympian Goddess of Love Oh but that...
Aphrodite, goddess of loveHephaestus, god of fireHermes, messenger of the gods Greek Gods Genealogy & Family Tree The Greek Gods Family Tree and Genealogy and the relationships between the different generations of the principle Greek deities can be clarified by this overview of their Genealogy and...
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods is a collection of stories from Greek mythology told from the demigod Percy Jackson's point of view. The book talks about the origins of the Olympian gods (and of their ancestors, the Titans and the Protogenoi) and other storie
Rhea: Mother of the Olympian Gods Rhea, Titan goddess of fertility and motherhood, may have played only a supporting role in the famous stories of Greek mythology. Still, the classic Greek pantheon wouldn’t even exist without her. Of all the goddesses that have carried the moniker, Rhea ...
Olympian deities looked like men and women (though they could change themselves into animals and other things) and were — as many myths recounted — vulnerable to human foibles and passions.. The twelve main Olympians are: Zeus (Jupiter, in Roman mythology): the king of all the gods (and...
Unlike their Olympian descendants, who represented different aspects of humanity, the Titans were the personifications of larger elements and cosmic forces in the universe. They were the children of the primordial deities Gaia, the goddess of the Earth, and Uranus/Ouranos, the primordial god of ...
Odyssey. However, it’s worth noting that just because a god was included in the twelve Olympians does not mean they were widely worshiped—for example, there was very little worship of Hades. Conversely, some very widely worshiped figures were not in the main Olympian pantheon, like Themis...
Zeus was the leader of the Olympian gods, the ruling deities of the cosmos in ancient Greek mythology. As the god of thunder, he ruled justly over the other gods and mortals of the realm alongside his queen, Hera. Zeus was the god of: thunder the sky law and order the weather A marb...