Good to Know

2. Olympian deities
•Aphrodite Goddess of love, lust, beauty, seduction and
pleasure.
•Apollo God of music, healing, plague, prophecies,
poetry, and archery; associated with light,
truth and the sun.
•Ares God of war, bloodlust, violence, manly
courage, and civil order.
•Artemis Virgin goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild
animals, childbirth and plague.
•Athena Virgin goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy,
heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason.
•Demeter Goddess of fertility, agriculture, horticulture,
grain and harvest.
•Dionysus God of wine, parties and festivals, madness,
drunkenness and pleasure.
•Eros God of love, sexual intercourse, cupids, desire
and pleasure.
•Hades King of the Underworld and god of death, the
dead, and the hidden wealth of the Earth.
•Hephaestus God of fire, metalworking, stonemasonry,
sculpture and volcanism.
•Hera Queen of Heaven and goddess of marriage,
women, childbirth, heirs, kings and empires.

3. •Hermes God of travel, messengers, trade, thievery,
cunning wiles, language, writing, diplomacy,
athletics, and animal husbandry.
•Hestia Virgin goddess of the hearth, home and
cooking.
•Poseidon God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts,
earthquakes and horses.
•Zeus The king of the gods, the ruler of Mount
Olympus and the god of the sky, weather,
thunder, law, order and fate.

4. Protogenoi
•Aether God of the upper air.
•Ananke Goddess of inevitability, compulsion and
necessity.
•Erebos God of darkness and shadow.
•Gaia Goddess of the Earth .
•Hemera Goddess of daylight and the sun.
•Chaos The nothingness from which all else sprang.
•Chronos The Keeper of Time.
•The Nesoi Goddesses of the islands.
•Nyx Goddess of night.
•Uranus God of the heavens.
•The Ourea Gods of mountains.
•Phanes God of procreation in the Orphic tradition.
•Pontos God of the sea, father of the fish and other sea
creatures.
•Tartarus The darkest, deepest part of the underworld.
•Thalassa Spirit of the sea and consort of Pontos.