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Apollo

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Olympian god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases

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Artemis

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Olympian god of wild animals and the hunt. Twin sister of apollo. Daughter of Leto and Zeus

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Ares

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Olympian god of war

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Hermes

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Olympian messenger god. Helps guide to the dead

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Heracles

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God of strength and heroic endeavor

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Dionysus

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Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy

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Iris

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Personification of the rainbow

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Styx

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One of the rivers of the underworld

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Hekate

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Goddess of Witchcraft & Necromancy

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Perses

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Human, brother of Hesiod

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Metaneira

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Queen of Eleusis

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Keleos

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One of the original priests of Demeter to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult

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Gold generation

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Kronos’s rule. Mortals lived among the gods

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Silver generation

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Beginning of Zeus’s rule. Humans became inferior to the gods, and the period ended when humans would not worship.

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Bronze generation

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Filled with hard people who loved war. Ended up killing themselves

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Heros generation

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As the name implies, this is the age of heroes. Trojan War was fought during this time

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Iron generation

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During this age, humans live an existence of toil and misery.

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Okeanos

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Titan God of freshwater