Greek Gods

Primeval Gods

Gaia, c. 410-100 BCE

Titans

Kronos and Rhea, c. 475-435 BCE

Olympian Gods

Zeus, c. 470-460 BCE

Hera, c. 500-475 BCE

Poseidon, 3rd c. CE

(Hades), c. 330-310 BCE

Demeter, c. 350-340 BCE

(Hestia), c. 6th c. BCE

Aphrodite, 1st c. CE (Pompeii)

Athena, c. 525 BCE

Hephaistos, c. 430-420 BCE

Apollo, c. 470 BCE

Artemis, c. 500-459 BCE

Ares, c. 515-500 BCE

Hermes, c. 500-450 BCE

Dionysus, c. 410-100 BCE

Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days

Early 7th c. BCE

The Golden AgeLucas Cranach the Elder, 1530

Prometheus, c. 530 BCE

Hephaistos Creates Pandora, c. 475-425 BCE

Cultic Worship

Offering in the Form of a Temple from the Temple of Apollo, Dreros, c. 750s BCE

Heracles and Apollo Struggle for the Delphic Tripod, c. 520 BCE

Ritual Vessel on a Tripod, 1st c. CE

Votive Offerings from Olympia, 8th-7th c. BCE

Votive Statues from Ayia Irini Sanctuary, Cyprus, c. 700-550 BCE

Boar Sacrifice, c. 510 BCE

Parthenon Frieze, 447-443 BCE

Mystery Cults

Demeter and Persephone and the Eleusinian Mysteries

The Rape of PersephonePeter Paul Rubens, 1636

The Rape of ProserpinaGian Lorenzo Bernini, 1622

Demeter Mourning PersephoneEvelyn de Morgan, 1906

ProserpinaDante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

The Return of PersephoneFrederic Leighton, 1891

Persephone, c. 330-310 BCE

Great Eleusis Relief: Demeter, Triptolemos, Persephone, c. 440-430 BCE

The Dionysian Mysteries

The Villa of Mysteries

Pompeii, 1st c. CE

The Bacchanal

Bacchanal on a Roman Sarcophagus, 2nd c. CE

BacchanalTitian, 1519

Midas and BacchusNicolas Poussin, 1630

The Triumph of BacchusNicolas Poussin, 1636

Dance of the PeasantsPeter Paul Rubens, 1638

Oracles

Priestess of DelphiJohn Collier, 1891

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