Greek Gods and GoddessesBy JeongMin

The Beginning Well, according to a book called The God and Goddess of Olympus by Aliki, in the

beginning of time, Gaea, the Mother Earth was born in a dark space called Chaos. There she gave birth to Uranus the sky. They had 12 Titans, 3 Cyclops and 3 Heca-toncheires as their children but Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires were thrown into Tar-tarus for Uranus hated them because they were ugly. Gaea was furious for the fact that she loved all her children equally and urged the Titans to overthrow their fa-ther and save their brothers. Cronus, the youngest, was up for the job. He overthrew his father and made himself the Lord of the Universe but he did not save his broth-ers. Cronus married his sister and they had 6 Children, the gods and goddesses. He was anxious that one of his children will overthrow him like he overthrew his own father so he swallowed every one of his children except Zeus. He was taken cared by the nymphs until grown up. When he was grown up, Rhea wanted him to get rid of him but Zeus’s wife Metis said he needed help for Cronus had the Titans in his side. Rhea got her sons and daughter out of Cronus’s belly and they got ready for the bat-tle of their lives. They rescued their uncles and they build weapons such as thunder bolt for Zeus, trident for Poseidon, and Helm of Darkness for Hades. At the end they won the battle and threw Titans into the Tartarus. Then Zeus declared himself as the King of the Gods and Gods of heaven and Earth. Poseidon became the God of the Sea and Hades became God of the Underworld.

ZeusKing of the GodsGod of Heaven and EarthSon of Cronus and RheaWeapon: Thunder boltAnimal: Eagle

SHORT DISCRIPSION OF ALL THE 12 GODS AND HADES AND HESTIA

PoseidonGod of the Sea and EarthquakeSon of Cronus and RheaWeapon: TridentAnimal: Horse

HadesGod of the UnderworldSon of Cronus and RheaWeapon: Helm of Darkness

HeraGoddess of Marriage and ChildbirthDaughter of Cronus and RheaAnimal: Peacock

HephaestusGod of Fire and BlacksmithsSon of Zeus and Hera

AphroditeGoddess of Love and BeautyAnimal: Dove, Swan and Sparrow

AresGod of WarSon of Zeus and HeraWeapon: AnythingAnimal: Dog

AthenaGoddess of Wisdom, War, and Arts and CraftsDaughter of Zeus and MetisWeapon: Her brainAnimal: Owl

HermesMessenger of ZeusHerald of the GodsSon of Zeus and nymph Maia

ArtemisGoddess of the Moon, Wildlife, Hunting and ChastityDaughter of Zeus and the Goddess LetoTwin sister of ApolloWeapon :Bows and arrows

ApolloGod of the sun, Music Archery, Healing, and ProphecySon of Zeus and goddess LetoTwin brother of ArtemisWeapon :Bows and arrowsAnimal: Dolphin and Crow

DemesterGoddess of the Harvest, Grain, and FertilityDaughter of Cronus and RheaMother of Persephone

DionysusGod of Wine and VegetationsSon of Zeus and mortal princess Semele

HestiaGoddess of the HearthDaughter of Cronus and Rhea

Short description on few of the Titans

CronusKing of the TitansSlayer of UranusSon of Gaea and UranusFather of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demester, Hera

RheaWife of CronusDaughter of Gaea and UranusMother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demester, Hera

OceanusTitan of the sea

HyperionTitan of light, sun, moon , dawn

MnemosyneTitan of memory

ThemisTitan of justice and order

CoeusTitan of intelligence

PhoebeTitan of the Moon

MetisTitan of WisdomMother of Athena

AtlasKnown for holding the earth on his back

PrometheusKnown for giving mankind fire

Other Gods

Persophone Nemisis Eros PanThere are more but these are the most knownones.

FAMILY TREE

Cronus Rhea

PoseidonZeus Demeter Hades Hestia

AresHephaestus

Zeus

Zeus

Zeus

Persephone

Aphrodite

Married

Married

Leto

ApolloArtemis

Maia

Hera

Hermes

Metis

Athena

Zeus Semele

Dionysus

Few of my favourite storiesAthena’s BirthWell, if you remember the Family tree, you will recognize that Athena’s mom was Metis, but Metis did not give birth to Athena. Here is how the story goes. Well, Zeus and Metis got married then Zeus got the news that he will be overthrown by Metis’ son. Geae told him that her first ild will be a girl and but the second child will be a boy. After hearing this horrific news, Zeus calmed Metis down and then swallowed her.Soon a horrible headache hit Zeus. Hephastus was ordered to cut through Zeus’ skull and there Athena came out.

Perseus and MedusaWell to begin the story, Perseus is Zeus and Danae’s son. Medusa is a monster who was once Poseidon’s girlfriend but was turned into a mon-ster by Athena. If anybody looked at them di-rectly, they would be turned into stone.Perseus was a strong man and was challenged to bring Medusa’s head for a wedding present. He accepted the challenge. With the present from Athena, which was a shield which should be used to ‘see’ Medusa, and Hermes, a winged shoes used to travel quickly and the sickle to kill Medusa.With a few help from Graeae, three people who had to share 1 eye, he located the gorden and went inside it. Afterwards, he cut Medusa’s head and used that to petrify everyone in the wedding except his friends.

Story of Hermes Hermes is probably known for this story. Just few seconds after Hermes’ birth, Hermes killed a tortoise and made a lute out of it. Then, Hermes stole all of his half brother, Apollo,’s cows and hid him. After Apollo figured out that Hermes stole his cows, he was going to punish him for his misdeeds. Because Hermes know Apollo’s love with music, he gave his

lute in trade for his cows. Apollo gave him all his cows and more and left happily with the lute. Then he lured Zeus to give him a throne then he will not trick people a lot and then he was the messenger of the gods.

God Picture God Picture

Zeus Demester

Hera Apollo

Poseidon Artemis

Athena Aphrodites

Hermes Dionysus

Ares Hephaestus

Symbols for twelve Greek God

Bibliography

http://www.greekmythology.com/ The Gods and Goddessese of Olympus by

Aliki All the pictures from clip art

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