Myth Exam 2 Divinities/Demigods/Monsters

Aphrodite

goddess of love, husband to Hephaestus, lovers are Ares, Adonis, Anchises

Apollo

god of disease, healing, poetry, music, parents are Zeus and Leto, twin sister Artemis

Ares

god of war, lover to Aphrodite

Artemis

goddess of hunting, death of women, parents Zeus and Leto, twin brother is Apollo, virgin goddess

Athena

goddess of cities, crafts, wisdom, war, parents are Zeus and Metis (born from Zeus head), virgin goddess

Bull of Heaven

monster sent by Inanna to kill humans, killed by Gilgamesh & Enkidu

Centaurs

half man/half horse divinities

Charon

ferryman across river Styx in the Underworld, parents are Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night)

Cybele

Phygian fertility goddess, her priest is Attis

Demeter

fertility goddess of crops, mother of Persephone with Zeus (also her brother), parents are Cronus and Rhea

Dionysus

fertility god of wine, son of Zeus and Semele

Eros

Love, primordial force/son of Aphrodite

Gorgons

monsters with large eyes, apotropaic in art

Gilgamesh

king and legendary hero of Mesopotamia

Hades

god of the dead, parents Cronus and Rhea, wife is Persephone

Helen

most beautiful woman in the world, daughter of Zeus, marries Menelaus (king of Sparta), then Paris (prince of Troy)

Hephaestus

god of metalworking, crafts, fire, mother is Hera, spouse is Aphrodite

Hera

goddess of marriage, parents are Cronus and Rhea, husband is Zeus

Hermes

god of travelers, thieves, messengers, oratory, parents Zeus and Maia

Hestia

goddess of hearth, daughter of Cronus and Rhea

Humbaba

monster guarding a cedar forest, killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu

Inanna/Ishtar

Mesopotamian goddess of love/war

Io

daughter of river Inachus, loved by Zeus, turned into a cow, tormented by gadfly

Isis

Egyptain goddess, wife of Osiris, mother of Horus

Medusa

woman turned into a snake-haired monster, her stare turns to stone

Minotaur

half man/half bull, child of Minos and Pasiphae

Nymphs

minor goddesses of nature

Osiris

Egyptian god, husband of Isis, killed by Seth and dismembered

Pasiphae

daughter of Helios (sun), wife to Minos, mother to minotaur

Persephone

daughter of Zeus and Demeter, stolen by Hades, queen of underworld

Perseus

son of Zeus and Danae, kills Medusa and sea monster

Poseidon

god of the oceans, wife is Hera, parents are Cronus and Rhea

Satyrs

goat/men divinities who follow

Semele

daughter of Persephone, stolen by Hades

Sphinx

woman/lion hybrid monster who kills travelers to Thebes

Thetis

Nereid, mother of Achilles

Titans

children of Gaea and Uranus, fought the Olympian gods

Zeus

storm god, king of the Olympians, enforces justice, hospitality, wife is Hera, parents Cronus and Rhea