- Polytheism
- –Many gods and goddesses
- –Although gods were immortal, they were immortal, they were mot all powerful. Fate ruled over all.
- –Gods had humans trails and emotions and manipulated humans
- Gods / Zeus
- –Child of Cronus and Rhea
- –Overthrew his fater
- –King of the Gods
- –God of the sky, weather, law, etc
- Poseidon
- –Swallowed by Cronus at birth but was later saved
- –God of the sea, earthquakes and horses
- Married Amphitrite
- Hades
- –Oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea
- –God of the Underworld and precious metal under earth
- –Obtained his his wife Persephone through trickery and abduction
- –Helmet that makes him invisible.
- Gods - Hera
- –Queen of all Gods
- –Protected women and marriage
- –“Lady”
- –Amazon protector
- Married and sister to Zues
- Athena
- –Born out of Zeus’s head
- –His fav
- –Goddess of strategic war
- –Wisdom and justice
- City and ag
- Apollo
- –Son of Zeus
- Artemis
- –Daughter of Zeus
- –Vrigin Goddess of the Hunt
- –Twin to Apollo
- –Sudden death with arrow
- Ares
- –God of war, battlelust, civil order and manly behavior
- –son of zeus and hera
- –had a long affair with Aphrodite during which he had 3 sons and 1 daighter
- Plants mars is named after his roman equivilant
- Aphrodite
- –Goddess of love, beauty and fertility
- –protectress of sailors
- –born from sea foam
- –most beautiful woman in the world (paris)
- Myths
- –zeus was the son of cronos
- –Cronos was destined to be overthrown by son
- –Has a temple in Athens
- –Medusa would flaunt her beauty for she was almost as beautiful as Athena
- –Medusa made Athena angry and turned her beloved hair to snakes
- –Killed things by looking at them
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