Greek Mytholgy list
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aphrodite | Greek Goddess of Love & Beauty, perhaps born from sea foam |
| Apollo | Sun god; god of medicine; music, poetry, dance, math, and prophecy |
| Ares | God of war |
| Artemis | Goddess of the moon & hunting, wild animals, childbirth, chastity |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom & war, Greek goddess sprang from Zeus's head fully grown and wearing armor |
| Demeter | Goddess of agriculture, threatened barren Earth if daughter not returned. |
| Dionysus | god of fertility, wine, revelry, theater |
| Hephaestus | Hera and Zeus' crippled son, god of fire, forge, metal working |
| Hera | Queen of the gods; goddess of women and motherhood |
| Hermes | Messenger of the gods, god of invention, science, commerce, protector of travelers, thieves, gamblers |
| Hestia | Goddess of the hearth, the kindest and most peaceful of the Olympians. |
| Zeus | King of the gods |
| Eros | god of love,son of Aphrodite, created physical attraction |
| Hades | god of underworld, God of the dead |
| Persephone | goddess of the underworld |
| Poseidon | god of sea, earthquakes, and horses |
| Tartarus | lowest region of underworld |
| Atlas | Titan condemned to hold up the heavens |
| Pandora | The first mortal woman, sent to Earth as a punishment to man for Prometheus's theft of fire. She brought with her a box containing all human ills, wich escaped into the world when she opened the box. |
| Paris | Son of the king of Troy (Priam), would lead to the death of the Trojans, prince of Troy, abducts Helen from Sparta, begins and is the cause of the war |
| Prometheus | the god that invented fire, he was chained to a rock on the caucasus Mountains where a vulture gnawed at him all day. |
| Cronus | the King of the Titans |
| Olympians | The 12 Greek gods that lived on the top of Mt. Olympus |
| Heracles | a hero noted for his strength, mortal son of Zeus, strong and brave but lacks self-control, rises to Olympus after death |
| Sisyphus | a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and he was forced to start again |
| Nike | the ancient Greek goddess of victory. |
| Ajax | Greek warrior in the Trojan War |
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