Gods Flashcards
(24 cards)
How is Zeus usually portrayed?
Holding a thunderbolt and sitting on a throne with a crown and a sceptre
What are the roles and responsibilities of Zeus?
- King of the gods
- Weather (lightning and thunder)
- Justice
- Protection of foreign travellers
What are the roles and responsibilities of Hera?
- Queen of the gods
- Wife of Zeus
- Goddess of marriage
How is Hera usually portrayed?
She is usually a royal figure, wearing a crown and a long dress
What are the roles and responsibilities of Demeter?
- Goddess of crops
- Role model of agriculture
(Her daughter, Persephone was abducted by Hades)
How is Demeter usually portrayed?
Pictured alongside flowers, fruit, and grain.
What are the roles and responsibilities of Poseidon?
- God of the sea
- God of horses
- God of earthquakes
How is Poseidon usually portrayed?
Depicted alongside dolphins, holding his trident that shakes the earth
What are the roles and responsibilities of Hephaistos?
- God of metal-working
- God of fire
How is Hephaistos usually portrayed?
Believed to live in volcanoes, seen with weapons and jewellery he had made as he was a blacksmith. Usually depicted as ugly, and considered lame and unpopular with an unhappy marriage to Aphrodite.
What are the roles and responsibilities of Apollo?
- God of music, art, education, medicine, disease, prophecy, sun, archery
Also known as Pheobus
How is Apollo usually portrayed?
Handsome, young, usually holding a lyre or quiver of arrows
How is Artemis usually portrayed?
- Goddess of hunting, childbirth, childhood, moon
Twin sister of Apollo, also known as Phoebe
How is Artemis usually portrayed?
With a bow and arrow and wild animals beside her, youthful, with a short dress
What are the roles and responsibilities of Athene?
- Goddess of tactical warfare, wisdom, weaving, handicrafts
Founded Athens
How is Athene usually portrayed?
- Sacred owl
- Armour and weapons
- Special cape
- Aegis made of goat skin and fringed with images of snakes
- Picture of gorgon head in centre
What are the roles and responsibilities of Aphrodite?
- Goddess of love
Married to Hephaistos, her son Eros fired arrows into people’s hearts the make them fall in love
How is Aphrodite usually portrayed?
With a sea shell as she is supposedly born from the sea of Cyprus (sacred island). Also sometimes seen with Eros.
What are the roles and responsibilities of Ares?
- God of war and destruction
Military leaders would pray to him for help during battle
How is Ares usually portrayed?
Wearing full armour
What are the roles and responsibilities of Hermes?
- Messenger of the gods
- Protected the traders that travelled widely across the Greek world
How is Hermes usually portrayed?
Depicted with winged sandals, a winged helmet, and a special wand
What are the roles and responsibilities of Dionysos?
- God of wine, theatre, partying, growth, fertility
How is Dionysos usually portrayed?
Depicted with vines and ivy, wine and symbols of growth. Maenads (female followers who sang and danced in praise) and satyrs (bushy tails, pointed ears, snubbed noses, half man half animal creatures).
