Symbol of

• rebirth
• cleansing of the old
• cycle of life

All Gods

building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome

the philosophical study of design and purpose. A teleological school of thought is one that holds all things to be designed for or directed toward a final result, that there is an inherent purpose or final cause for all that exists

Greek: telos: end, purpose)

is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetypal character of literature and art.

Circe, is another half woman half divine femme fatale who turned Odysseus' men into swine

is a primordial and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess.

Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.

Hesiod's Theogony (116ff) tells how, after Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus

the Greek word for sky

Ouranos or Father Sky, is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth (Hesiod, Theogony)

Most Greeks considered Uranus to be primordial (protogenos), and gave him no parentage. Under the influence of the philosophers, Cicero, in De Natura Deorum ("The Nature of the Gods"), claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera, Air and Day.

was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Ouranos, the sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own sons, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, and imprisoned in Tartarus ^[1] or sent to rule the paradise of the Elysian Fields

was one of the Titans, the wife and sister of Kronos.

she was the mother of Demeter, Hera, Hestia, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. Zeus was the youngest, and the only one of her children who was not eaten by Kronos immediately after birth—Rhea instead handed Kronos a rock wrapped in clothing, which Kronos devoured believing it to be his infant son. Zeus, who was hidden away on the island of Crete later returned to free his siblings and overthrow Kronos and the Titans.

The Romans knew Rhea as Manga Mater (The Great Mother Goddess)

Zeus was the youngest son of Kronos. His mother, Rhea, saved Zeus from Kronos when she hid him on the island of Crete.

he tricked Kronos into regurgitating his brothers and sisters and led his generation in a battle against the Titans. Kronos was overthrown, and Zeus took control of the universe. Lots were drawn to divide the kingdom — Hades won rule of the underworld, and Poseidon took control of the Sea. The heavens and the earth went to Zeus, who became the supreme god of ancient Greek religion.

is the wife and sister of the supreme god, Zeus. she was jealous of Zeus' many other lovers—she fought often with him and sought revenge against his mistresses. She punished other unfaithful husbands.

She was worshiped all over greece, especially in Argos and Salmos where she had several temples built in her honour. She is a symbol of women, marriage, marital love and childbirth.

During the Trojan War, Hera seduces her husband in order to distract him from the events of the war, preventing him from interfering.

The Romans equated Hera with their goddess, Juno.

• as daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus, of Sparta.

• She was the mother of Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux.
• Leda also had other daughters by Tyndareus: Timandra, Phoebe, Philonoe

was the daughter of Zeus and Leda. She was the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta.

Helen was seduced by the Trojan prince Paris, and was abducted by him and taken to Troy. This event launched the Trojan War, in which Menelaus, with great help from his brother Agamemnon, laid siege to the city of Troy.

Clytemnestra (or Clytaemnestra) is the wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae.

While Agamemnon was away at the Trojan War, Clytemnestra took a lover: Aegisthus, who was Agamemnon's cousin. Some sources say that Clytemnestra waited a long time for Agamemnon to return before taking a lover, but when his ship was blown off course on return to Troy, she was eventually seduced.

When Agamemnon returned victorious after the Trojan War, Clytemnestra was furrious both for the death of her daughter and for Agamemnon's new concubine, Cassandra. She killed Agamemnon and Cassandra, and made Aegisthus King of Mycenae.

were the twin sons of Leda and Zeus/Tyndareus (Pollux's father was Zeus, Castor's was Tyndareus), the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and the half-brothers of Timandra, Phoebe, Heracles, Philonoe.

the twins shared the same mother but had different fathers which meant that Pollux was immortal and Castor was mortal. When Castor died, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together and they were transformed into the Gemini constellation

The son of Kronos and Rhea, Poseidon was the Greek god of the Sea. He won the realm of the sea when the universe was divided after the fall of the Titans.

Poseidon was known to cause earthquakes when he was angry, upsetting even Hades in the underworld.

Poseidon is most frequently depicted with his trident, and often riding a horse (sometimes on water).

Medusa, one of the three gorgons of Greek Mythology. Like her gorgon sisters, Euryale and Stheno, Medusa was a hideous fanged monster. One glance upon a gorgon would turn the onlooker into stone. Medusa also had wings (in most depictions), and hair made of snakes.

Unlike her sisters, Medusa was a mortal creature.

Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was raped by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged goddess transformed her beautiful hair to serpents and she made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn a man to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved.

She was ultimately killed by Perseus, who cut off her head. He was able to slay her by looking only at her reflection in a mirrored shield. He presented her head to the goddess Athena. Athena then took the head, which still possessed its petrification ability, and mounted it on her shield (or cloak, in some accounts).

her head was said to ultimately be buried under the agora at Argos.

was a winged horse sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa.

sprung from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus.

In psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud interpreted the creature as an expression of the primal scene

gigantic one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa, is a character in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclops. His name means "famous"

In Homer's Odyssey (Book 9), Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes during his journey home from the Trojan War. He then takes twelve men and sets out to find supplies

the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household

Hestia is one of the three Great Goddesses of the first Olympian generation

Poseidon, and Apollo of the younger generation each aspired to court Hestia, but the goddess was unmoved by Aphrodite's works and swore on the head of Zeus to retain her virginity

In Roman mythology, her more specifically civic approximate equivalent was Vesta, who personified the public hearth, and whose cult round the ever-burning hearth bound Romans together in the form of an extended family.

was the Greek goddess of harvest and fertility. She was the daughter of Kronos and Rhea and, with Zeus, the mother of Persephone

Hades abducted Persephone to be his queen of the underworld. When he did, Demeter grieved for the loss and began to search for her daughter, and the earth became barren because of her neglect.

Reason for seasons

(also Kore, Proserpina to the Romans)

Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter

Persephone's mother, Demeter, wandered the earth searching for her. Finally, she found Helios, who described what happened. In her depression, Demeter's negligence stopped all growth on earth. To restore order, Zeus sent Hermes to persuade Hades into releasing Persephone. Hades eventually gave in, but gave Persephone a pomegranate, a food of the dead, which forever binded her to the underworld. Persephone would then have to spend a portion of the year underground, during which time Demeter would again fall into depresion and the world would become temporarily infertile. The myth symbolizes the cyclical seasons, Persephone's annual return to Hades begins winter.

(also Pluto)

was the son of Kronos and Rhea. When Zeus, Poseidon and Hades divided the universe after the Titans were defeated,he became ruler of the underworld.

Hades took Persephone as his queen, and ruled over the dead.

• Demophon, a king of Athens, according to Pindar, son of Theseus and half brother of Acamas, fought in the Trojan War and was one of those to be in the Trojan Horse
• Demophon, a mythological king of Eleusis

• As Eurystheus prepared to attack, an oracle told Demophon that he would win if and only if a noble virgin was sacrificed to Persephone.

  Macaria (one of hercales children) volunteered for the sacrifice and a spring was named the Macarian spring in her hono

Greek mythology always connected with Demeter of the Eleusinian Mysteries, might be accounted the son of King Celeus of Eleusis in Attica, or, according to the Pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheca I.V.2), the son of Gaia and Okeanos—another way of saying he was "primordial man".

In the archaic Homeric Hymn to Demeter, He was briefly mentioned as one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first men to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Eleusinian Mysteries:

is the goddess of youth

She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hêbê was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles

Goddess of Birth

According to Hesiod (Theog. 922) Zeus was the father of Eileithyia, and she was the sister of Hebe and Ares. Artemis, moreover, was, like Eileithyia, a maiden divinity; and although the latter was the daughter of the goddess of marriage and the divine midwife, neither husband, nor lover, nor children of her are mentioned. She punished want of chastity by increasing the pains at the birth of a child, and was therefore feared by maidens

was the Greek god of war. He was the son of Zeus and his wife, Hera, who had three children with Aphrodite, althouh she was not his wife. His twins, Phobos and Deimos, always followed Ares onto the battlefield.

The Romans identified Ares with their own war god, Mars.

was a Greek god whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan. He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes.

Hephaestus fell for nine days and nights before landing on the island of Lemnos

Hephaestus, being the most unfaltering of the gods, was given Aphrodite’s hand in marriage by Zeus in order to prevent conflict over her between the other gods.

found out about Aphrodite’s promiscuity from Helios, the all-seeing Sun, While Aphrodite and Ares lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible and dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution. However, the gods laughed at the sight of these naked lovers and Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterer's fine. Hephaestus states in the Odyssey that he would return Aphrodite to her father and demand back his bride price: this is the one episode that links them.

was the Greek goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Different myths tell of contradictory origins—Homer said that Aphrodite was born of Dione with Zeus, while Hesoid's story, which is more popular, tells that Aphrodite was born of the foraming sea where Ouranos' severed genitals had fallen when Kronos emasculated Ouranos to free himself and his siblings. was the wife of Hephaestus, but she also bore children of Ares, Dionysus and Hermes.

The Romans equated Aphrodite with Venus.

was the god of love and sexual desire, who fired arrows of passion at both gods and humans. Sometimes he toyed with peoples hearts, wounding them.

The Roman god Cupid was derived from Eros.

was the son Erebos and Nyx (the Night), others that he was born of Ares and Aphrodite.

an archaic goddess in Greek mythology

Homer believed she was the mother of Aphrodite, and Zeus the father. The Goddess Dione was also thought to be a consort of Zeus.

Born from a tree

Adonis' mother Smyrna conceived an incestuous passion for her father, and with the complicity of her nurse shared the bed of her father (Cinyras ₁ according to some or Thias according to others). When he learned that he had been deceived by his daughter, he pursued her with a sword and, being overtaken, she prayed to the gods that she might be invisible; so the gods in compassion turned her into the tree called smyrna (myrrh). Ten months afterwards the tree burst and Adonis was born.

When Adonis was still an infant, Aphrodite, for the sake of his beauty, hid him in a chest unknown to the gods and entrusted it to Persephone. But when Persephone beheld him, she would not give him back. The case being tried before Zeus, the year was divided into three parts, so that Adonis should stay by himself for one part of the year, with Persephone for one part, and with Aphrodite for the remainder. However Adonis made over to Aphrodite his own share in addition.

Adonis met a boar and he attacked it, and the boar fought him back, wounded him and killed him. Adonis died in Aphrodite's arms, who came to him when she heard his groans. When he died she sprinkled the blood with nectar and the short-lived anemone, which takes its name from the wind which so easily makes it fall, was produced.

that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus). One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian princess and seduced him for nearly two weeks of lovemaking. Anchises learned that his lover was a goddess only nine months later, when she revealed herself and presented him with the infant Aeneas. Father of Aeneas

or Pallas

• Virgin Goddess
• pathenos
• parthenon
• Goddes of wisdom
• feminine arts (weaving and spinning)
• war (depicted with spear and helmet
• the daugher of Zeus and the Titaness Metis. She was a virgin goddess of war and crafts to the Greek people.
• thena sprang forth, fully grown, from Zeus' head after he swallowed Metis. Gaea had warned that a child born of Metis may take over, so when Metis became pregnant, Zeus swallowed her.

was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that Mètis was born of Oceanus and Tethys, of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings. Mètis was the first great spouse of Zeus, indeed his equal (Hesiod, Theogony 896) and the mother of Athena,

the goddess of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus.

AKA (Phoibos or Phoebus)

Born on the Island of Delos (=Delian god)

Worshipped at Delphi

• Son of Zeus and Letos, twin brother of Artemis
• god of -moderation, order, beauty, balance, discipline, self-knowledge, self control, light, the sun, music, prophecy, archery.