gods/doddesses Flashcards
(32 cards)
Uranus
The first one, Cronos’ father killed by his sun, prophesiedthat his son would also be killed by one of his children
Cronos
Father of Gods, gave his name to time, married Rhea, swallows Hestia, Demeter,and Hera
Rhea
Goddess of earth, saved Zeus from cronos, helped zeuspreparedrink that forced cronos to vomit up his other children
Zeus
Father-god, God of the sky.
Hera
Mother-goddess, tricked by zeus into marriage
poseiden
god of the seas/ river and lakes #water
Hades
God of the under world/ dead
Demeter
Goddess of all useful fruits, grasses, and grains
Persephone
Demeter’s daughter, unhappily married to Hades
Hephaestus
god of goldsmiths, jewelers, blacksmiths ,masons and carpenters, son of Zeus and Hera, broke his leg when Zeus threw him over the walls of Olympus, wore a golden leg iron.
Athene
Goddess of wisdom, Battle goddess, believed to have been born from Zeus’ head
Aphrodite
Goddess of Love, married unhappily to Hephaestus
Ares
Tall, handsome, cruel, loved fighting for its own sake, flirted with Aphrodite, and no manners, no learning, and the worst taste.
Apollo
God of music, poetry, medicine, archery, and young unmarried men. Son of Zeus and Leto
Artemis
Goddess of hunting and of unmarried girls, of any mortal happened to see her without clothes, she used to change him into a stag and hunt him to death.
Daphne
Chased by Apollo, changed into a laurel tree.
Hermes
God of merchants, bankers, thieves, fortune-tellers, and heralds, born in Arcadia, son of Zeus and Maia, invented the alphabet.
Hestia
Goddess of the home
Dionysus
Son of Zeus and Semele, (mortal woman), Hestia offered him her seat on the council (thirteen Olympians would have been an unlucky number) just to keep the peace.
Heracles
Olympian porter
Eris
Goddess of quarrells
Iris
Hera’s messenger who used to run along the rainbow.
Nemesis
Kept a list for the Olympians of proud mortals due to be punished
Hebe
Goddess of youth who married Heracles.