Gods - Mythology

Zues/Jupiter/Jove

Domain: Thunder/sky/order, Symbol: thunderbolt, Children: Helen of troy, Heracles, and Persephone, husband and brother to Hera, lots of escapades with mortals,

Siblings

Zues, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Demeter

Hera/Juno

Domain: marriage, women, childbirth, family, Symbol: peacock, cow, Children: Ares, Hephaestus, wife to Zues, queen of Mount Olympus, tries to get revenge for Zues’ affairs

Poseidon/Neptune

Domain: sea, earthquakes, storms, horses, Symbol: trident, Children: Theseus, Triton, Pegasus, Married to sea nymph Amphitrite, medusa

Hades/Pluto/Dis

Domain: underworld/the dead, married to Persephone, Minthe - nymph lover, Depicted with Cerberus, no real children of note,

Demeter/Ceres

Domain: harvest, agriculture, Symbol: Wheat, Children: Persephone, Zues and Poseidon lover

Hestia/Vesta

Domain: Hearth, home, domesticity, fire, Virgin Goddess, not a lot of appearances

Aphrodite/Venus

Domain: Sex, love, lust, pleasure, Children: Eros, Aeneas, parents: Zues and Dione, Lovers: Hephaestus, Ares, Chronos threw Uranus’s genital into the sea and she emerged out of a shell,

Athena/Minerva

Domain: wisdom, warfare, symbol: owl, Parents: Metis, Zues (sprang from his head), Patron of Heros, now symbol of learning/the arts

Artemis/Diana

Domain: the hunt, wilderness, nature, chastity, Parents: Zues/Leto, Apollo twin, Symbol: deer, bow/arrow, lives in woods with nymphs

Apollo

Domain: music, dance, sun, poetry, prophecy, Symbol: lyre, laurel, Children: Eurydice, Orpheus, Parents: Zues/Leto, oracles

Ares/Mars

Domain: War, courage, Parents: Zues/Hera, Sibling: Hephaestus, Lover of Aphrodite, Children: the Amazons (woman warriors), Eros, where the word “martial” comes from

Hephaestus/Vulcan

Domain: fire/volcanoes, blacksmiths, artisans, carpenters, the forge Symbols: Hammer, anvil, Parents: Hera (more commonly), Zues, Lovers: Aphrodite (divorced) Algaea, disabled, clubbed foot, thrown off mt olympus, makes cool stuff for gods

Hermes/Mercury

Domain: travelers, Merchants, heralds, Parents: Zues, Maia, Lover: Aphrodite, Messenger of the gods - shoes helped him travel from world to world

Dionysus/Bacchus

Domain: wine, ecstasy, theater, hedonism, insanity, Wife: Ariadne, Parents: Zues/Semele (sometimes aphrodite), usually repaves hestia in 12 olympians

Persephone/Proserpina

Domain: spring, nature, underworld, Symbols: pomegranate, Parents: Zues/Demeter, Wife to Hades, queen of underworld

Eros/Cupid

Domain: love, sex, desire, Parents: Aphrodite/Ares, Wife: Psyche, other gods were afraid of him, often Aphrodite’s right hand, seen as primordial god