Spheres of Influence

Zeus/Jupiter

sky & weather

Hera/Juno

women in their roles as wives and mothers

Athena/Minerva

cunning, battle, weaving, crafts, fertility of olive tree

Poseidon/Neptune

sea, earthquakes, horses

Aphrodite/Venus

sexual desire, human and animal fertility

Hephaestus/Vulcan

metalworking and other crafts, fire as basis of technology

Ares/Mars

war

Eros/Cupid

sexual desire

Apollo/Apollo

purification, interpretation of religious law, prophecy, healing and plague, music and poetry

Artemis/Diana

hunting and fertility of wild animals, childbirth, women's transition from virginity to sexual maturity

Hermes/Mercury

stone heaps and pillars, travel, theft, luck

Hestia/Vesta

the hearth fire

Dionysus, Bacchus/Liber

vine, vegetation, drama

Demeter/Ceres

grain, hope of happy afterlife

Persephone, Kore/Proserpina

grain, queen of underworld

Hades, Pluto/Dis

king of underworld