 | Term | Definition |
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Gaia |
Earth |
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Ouranos |
Sky |
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Kronus |
Titan, Zeus' father |
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Rheia |
Titan, Zeus' mother |
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Zeus |
Lord of the Sky, Rain-god, Cloud-gatherer |
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Hera |
protector of marriage |
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Poseidon |
God of the Sea, Earth-shaker |
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Hades |
King of the Dead, God of Wealth |
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Athena |
Goddess of the City, battle-goddess |
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Apollo |
God of Truth, God of Light, healer, archer-god, master musician, Sun |
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Artemis |
Lady of Wild Things, Hunstman-in-chief, protectress of dewy youth. Hectate, Moon |
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Aphrodite |
Goddess of Love and Beauty |
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Hermes |
Zeus' messenger, master-thief |
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Ares |
God of War |
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Hephaestus |
God of Forge and Fire, kind, peace loving |
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Hestia |
Goddess of the Hearth |
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Demeter |
goddess of the corn |
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Dionysus |
god of wine/ the vine |
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Persephone |
Demeter's only daughter, maiden of the Spring |
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maenads |
followers of Dionysus |
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Castor and Pollux |
Gemini twins, Castor is mortal while Pollux may be immortal |
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Cerberus |
3- headed, dragon-tailed dog that guards the underworld gate |
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Silenus |
taught Dionysus then became his follower, jovial fat old drunk man, son of Hermes, rides an ass, to drunk to talk |
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Proteus |
ancient of the sea salt, Poseidon's son or attendant, shape shifter, psychic |
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Aeolus |
King of the Winds |
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Erinyes |
Tisiphone, Magaera, and Alecto; female punishers of evildoers in Hades; inexorable but fair |
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Graces |
Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia; queens of song, dance to Apollo's lyre; treated as 1 personality |
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Muses |
9 happy, "free from care", "set upon song", companions of Apollo and the Graces |
