Per 8 Gods and Goddess Defintions

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Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War

Definition: Athena Example: Athena, also referred to as Athene, is a very important goddess of many things. She is goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.

Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Moon, and Archery

Definition: Artemis Example: she a dealy hunter and shy

Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Moon, and Archery

Definition: Artemis Example: artemis

Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty

Definition: Aphrodite Example: Aphordite

Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty

Definition: Aphrodite Example: Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus, which is named after the Roman goddess Venus, with whom Aphrodite was extensively syncretized.

Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty

Definition: Aphrodite Example: represents love and beauty on the inside and out. men pray to this god for a pretty wife.

Greek God of Sun, Prophecy, Music, and Poetry

Definition: Apollo Example: His parents are Zeus and Leto. Artemis is his twin sister. Gives knowledge to mortals sometimes. he is a Greek god of the sun, prophecy, music, ans the god of poetry. He often appears in human form, though his look is never the same. He has appeared as a tall, muscular, tanned, and extremely handsome twenty something with long wavy blond hair pulled back in a messy man bun, as an outdoorsy teenager with sandy hair and laughing blue eyes, and even as a disheveled homeless man in filthy clothing. Apollo is more harmless than harmful. He treats his demigod children with kindness and visits Camp Half-Blood more often than most gods. Apollo will never admit to having made mistakes, but beneath his cheerful, sunny disposition lies a sadness rooted in regret for lost loves and injuries given.

Greek God of Sun, Prophecy, Music, and Poetry

Definition: Apollo Example: The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.

Greek God of Sun, Prophecy, Music, and Poetry

Definition: Apollo Example: When someone died suddenly, he was said to have been struck down by one of Apollo's arrows.

Greek God of Sun, Prophecy, Music, and Poetry

Definition: Apollo Example: he is mr.sun

Greek God of War

Definition: Ares Example: Greek God of War. Ares is the god of war, one of the Twelve Olympian gods and the son of Zeus and Hera. In literature Ares represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war, which is in contrast to Athena who represents military strategy and generalship as the goddess of intelligence.

Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Moon, and Archery

Definition: Artemis Example: Apollo is the son of zeus and leto and twins with artemis

Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War

Definition: Athena Example: Distinguishing Features: Dark hair, striking grey eyes, casual yet fashionable clothes (except when she's going into battle; then it's full body armor). Athena is always accompanied by at least one owl, her sacred (and fortunately housebroken) animal. Now: You're likely to spot Athena at an American university, sitting in on lectures about military history or technology. She favors people who invent useful things, and will sometimes appear to reward them with magical gifts or bits of useful advice (like next week's lottery numbers). So start working on that revolutionary new bread slicer! Then: Athena was one of the most active goddesses in human affairs. She helped out Odysseus, sponsored the entire city of Athens and made sure the Greeks won the Trojan War. On the downside, she's proud and has a big temper. Just ask Arachne, who got turned into a spider for daring to compare her weaving skills to Athena's. So whatever you do, DO NOT claim that you fix toilets better than Athena. There's no telling what she'll turn you into.

Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War

Definition: Athena Example: She is goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.

Greek Goddess of Agriculture and Harvest

Definition: Demeter Example: As goddess of the harvest, Demeter was worshiped by the people of Greece as they depended on good crops for food and survival.

Greek Goddess of Agriculture and Harvest

Definition: Demeter Example: Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and presides over grains and the fertility of the earth. Although she was most often referred to as the goddess of the harvest, she was also goddess of sacred law and the cycle of life and death.

Greek God of Wine, Grapes, and Theatre

Definition: Dionysus Example: Dionysus rescued Ariadne after she had been abandoned by Theseus. Dionysus also saved his mother from the Underworld, after Zeus showed her his true nature as storm god and consumed her in lightning.

Greek God of Wine, Grapes, and Theatre

Definition: Dionysus Example: Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, fertility, ritual madness, theater, and religious ecstasy. His Roman name was Bacchus.

Greek God of the Underworld

Definition: Hades Example: Hades was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and brother of the deities Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia. He is the god of the under world. Hades rarely leaves his obsidian palace in the Underworld, probably because of traffic congestion on the Fields of Asphodel freeway. He oversees a booming population among the dead and has all sorts of employment trouble with his ghouls and specters. This keeps him in a foul mood most of the time.

Greek God of the Underworld

Definition: Hades Example: if you get on this gods bad side you may die faster than you expect.

Greek God of Fire and Blacksmiths

Definition: Hephaestus Example: He was the son of Zeus and Hera and married to Aphrodite by Zeus to prevent a war of the gods fighting for her hand.

Greek God of Fire and Blacksmiths

Definition: Hephaestus Example: Hephaestus

Greek God of Fire and Blacksmiths

Definition: Hephaestus Example: this god is vary good with his hands

Greek Goddess of Marriage, Women, and Childbirth

Definition: Hera Example: childbirth and mirage and relationship and we u do the kisses whit some one

Greek Goddess of Marriage, Women, and Childbirth

Definition: Hera Example: this god punishes the children of her husband if they are not her own. she is also big on revenge.

Greek God of Strength, Heroes, and Sports

Definition: Heracles Example: Heracles

Greek God of Strength, Heroes, and Sports

Definition: Heracles Example: Heracles, Greek Herakles, Roman Hercules, one of the most famous Greco-Roman legendary heroes. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene (see Amphitryon), granddaughter of Perse

Greek God of Strength, Heroes, and Sports

Definition: Heracles Example: I am done drawing

Greek God of Travelers, Trade, and Thieves

Definition: Hermes Example: Hermes was the emissary and messenger of the gods. He is described as moving freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, and was the conductor of souls into the afterlife.

Greek God of Travelers, Trade, and Thieves

Definition: Hermes Example: if you make this god mad you may come home to an emty house

Greek God of Travelers, Trade, and Thieves

Definition: Hermes Example: shepherd, messenger for the gods

Greek Goddess of the Hearth, Home, and Family

Definition: Hestia Example: Every Greek had a fireplace in their home for cooking that they never let go out. Even when they moved, they took an ember from one home to another to continue the fire, honoring this goddess. The Olympics continues this tradition, bringin gthe fire from Olympia.

Greek Goddess of the Hearth, Home, and Family

Definition: Hestia Example: In Ancient Greek religion, Hestia (/ˈhɛstiə, ˈhɛstʃə/; Greek: Ἑστία, "hearth" or "fireside") is a virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family, the home, and the state. In Greek mythology, she is a daughter of Kronos and Rhea.

Greek Goddess of the Hearth, Home, and Family

Definition: Hestia Example: this godess is the reason you have a family

Greek God of the Sea, Earthquakes, Storms, and Horses

Definition: Poseidon Example: you do not want to go on a boat when this god is angree

Greek God of Justice, Sky, Lightning, and Thunder

Definition: Zeus Example: His symbols include the lightning bolt, the eagle, the bull, and the oak tree.He was married to the goddess Hera.

Greek God of Justice, Sky, Lightning, and Thunder

Definition: Zeus Example: Zeus was the king of the Greek gods who lived on Mount Olympus. He was the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols include the lightning bolt, the eagle, the bull, and the oak tree. He was married to the goddess Hera.


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