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Ancient sculpture of Apollo now in the British Museum

This is a list of the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. Roman Mythology uses different names, calling Zeus by the name of Jupiter, and Aphrodite by the name of Venus, for example. The Roman names are often better known to English-speaking people than the Greek names.

Primordial (First) gods

Greek name	English name	Description
Αιθήρ (Aithēr)	Aether	God of light
Χάος (Khaos)	Chaos	God of the nothingness from where everything came.
Xρόνος or Kronos	Kronos(Kronus)	God of Time and the Zodiac Wheel - Father to Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades
Έρεβος (Erebos)	Erebus	God of darkness.
Γαία (Gaia)	Gaia	Goddess of the Earth (Mother Earth), mother of Kronos, grandmother of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, etc.
Ημέρα (Émera)	Hemera	Goddess of daylight and the sun.
Ζέφυρος (Zéfuros)	Zephyr	God of the west wind.
Νύξ (Nux)	Nyx	Goddess of night.
Τάρταρος (Tartaros)	Tartarus	The darkest pit in the world at the edge of the world.
Ουρανός (Ouranos)	Uranus	God of the heavens (Father Sky) and father of the Titans.

Titans

See also Titan (mythology). The original twelve Titans:

• Koios (Coeus)
• Kreios (Crius)
• Kronos (Cronus)
• Hyperion
• Iapetos
• Mnemosyne
• Okeanos
• Phoebe
• Rhea (mother of Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Hades, Poseidon, etc)
• Tethys
• Theia
• Themis

Other Titans:

• Atlas (he holds the sky as his punishment)
• Eos (goddess of dawn)
• Helios (god of the sun)
• Epimetheus
• Menoitios
• Prometheus
• Selene (goddess of the moon and became the wife of Helios, god of sun)

The Olympians

These gods are the most important and powerful gods. The home of these gods was Mount Olympus.

Greek name	English name	Roman name	Description
Aφροδίτη (Aphroditē)	Aphrodite	Venus	Goddess of love and beauty, married to Hephaestus. Ares is her lover. Eros is her son.
Aπόλλων (Apollōn)	Apollo	Apollo	God of the Sun, music, archery, poetry, plague, healing, and prophecy. He is Artemis's twin brother, and Son to Zeus.He also drives the chariot that rises the sun.
Άρης (Arēs)	Ares	Mars	God of war, murder and bloodshed. Brother to Hephaestus, and is the son of Zeus.
Άρτεμις (Artemis)	Artemis	Diana	Goddess of the hunt,wilderness,wild animals,night, and the moon. Apollo is her twin brother. Artemis is a virgin goddess and is also protector of maidens.
Αθηνά (Athēna)	Athena	Minerva	Goddess of wisdom, weaving, the arts, warfare and reason. She is the favorite daughter of Zeus.
Δήμητρα (Dēmētra)	Demeter	Ceres	Goddess of fertility, grain and harvest. Demeter is a sister of Zeus. Her daughter is Persephone, Hades' wife.
Διόνυσος (Dionysus)	Dionysus	Bacchus	God of wine, parties/festivals, madness and merriment, he is a son of Zeus.
ᾍδης (Hades)	Hades	Pluto	God of the underworld. Brother of Poseidon and Zeus.
Ήφαιστος (Hēphaistos)	Hephaestus	Vulcan	God of fire and the forge. Ugly son of Hera and Zeus is his father in some accounts. Married to Aphrodite, but she does not love him because he is deformed and as a result is cheating on him with Ares.
Ήρα (Hēra)	Hera	Juno	Goddess of marriage, women and childbirth. Zeus' wife, and sister.
Ερμής (Hērmēs)	Hermes	Mercury	God of flight, thieves, commerce, and travellers. Messenger of the gods. Zeus's son by Titaness.
Poseidon	Poseidon	Neptune	God of the sea. His sons are the Heavenly Twins, and Triton. His weapon is a trident by which he can stir up the seas, wreck ships and drown sailors.
Ζεύς (Zeus)	Zeus	Jupiter	The father of all fathers, the wisdom and light. The king of the gods after killing his father, Kronos who ate Zeus's siblings but their mother managed to save baby Zeus. When Zeus grew up he fed Kronos a mixture of wine and mustard to make him vomit his immortal siblings who had grown up in Kronos's stomach. Zeus is the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky, thunder and lightning. Though he is married more then once, his real queen is Hera. Zeus is the father of Hermes, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Athena, Ares, Persephone, Apollo, and Artemis. Some also say that Aphrodite is a daughter of Zeus, but Aphrodite is not a daughter of Zeus. He has the power of thunder and lightning

Demeter Myth of Greeks LIfe

Minor gods

• Bia - Goddess of force
• Cratos - God of strength
• Deimos - God of fear and brother of Phobos
• Eris - Goddess of discord
• Geras - God of age
• Harmonia - Goddess of harmony
• Hebe - Goddess of youth
• Hecate - Goddess of witchcraft and magic
• Hestia - Goddess of the hearth, fireside, family, and home, was one of the Olympians until she gave up her throne on for Dionysus ( is not a minor god she still has a throne on olympus)
• Hypnos - God of sleep
• Janus - God of doors, gates and new beginnings
• Phobos - God of Phobias and brother if Deimos
• Khione - Goddess of snow (father is one of the gods of the winds)
• Leto - mother of Artemis and Apollo
• Morpheus - God of dreams
• Momus- God of blame
• Moros - God of fate
• Nemisis - Goddess of revenge
• Nike - Goddess of victory
• Persephone - Goddess of spring and flowers and wife of Hades, hence queen of the underworld
• Thanatos- God of death
• the Erinyes - otherwise known as the furies
• the Horae - actually two groups of separate goddesses worshiped in different periods: the first three were goddesses of the seasons, the second generation were goddesses of law, justice and order
• Tyche - Goddess of luck, destiny and fortune
• Zelus - God of dedication
• the Moirae: Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos - They controlled life and destiny
• the Muses - they represented the arts and sciences
• the Oneiroi: Morpheus, Phobetor and Phantasos - they were the personifications of dreams and sons of hypnos
• Pan - God of the Wild
• Iris - Goddess of the rainbow

Other pages

• List of people in Greek mythology