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Lit: Greek Deities
Greek / Roman deities and their areas of reign
Question | Answer |
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Aphrodite / Venus | love |
Apollo / Phoebus | intellect, healing, arts, light, the sun |
Ares / Mars | war |
Artemis / Diana | chastity, childbirth, the moon |
Athene / Minerva | wisdom, battle strategy |
Kronos / Saturn | last ruling Titan god |
Demeter / Cyrus | fruitfulness, vegetation |
Dionysus / Bacchus | vines, alcohol |
Eileithyia / Lucina | childbirth |
Eos / Aurora | dawn, the sunrise |
Eumenides / Furies | three Titan sisters, daughters of Gaea |
Eris / Discordia | discord |
Eros / Cupid | love |
Gaea / Tellus | Earth |
Hades / Pluto | the underworld |
Hebe / Juventas | cupbearer to the gods, symbol of youth |
Hecate / Trivia | Titan depicted as sinister, associated with ghosts and witches |
Hephaestus / Vulcan | craftsmanship, architecture, weaponry |
Hera / Juno | home, marriage, childbirth, second among the deities |
Hermes / Mercury | commerce, wealth, good luck, roads, dreams |
Hestia / Vesta | the hearth, peace, family |
Hypnos / Somnus | sleep |
Leto / Latona | Titaness, mother of Artemis and Apollo |
Mount Olympus | mountain on which the gods resided |
The Moerae / Parcae (The Fates) | three old women who carried out the will of the gods in controlling all human destiny |
Nike / Victoria | victory |
Pan / Faunus | herds, flocks, rural areas |
Persephone / Prosperina | fertility, death |
Pluto / Dis, Plutus, Orcus | Hades (place, god, wealth from the ground) |
Poseidon / Neptune | oceans, waters, the Sea |
Rhea / Ops | wife of Kronos / Saturn |
Selene | moon, not a hunter or a virgin |
Tyche / Fortuna | good fortune |
Zeus / Jupiter | supreme god, sky |
Coeus | Titan, husband / brother to Phoebe |
Crius | minor Titan |
Hyperion | most beautiful / radiant Titan |
Iapetus | father of Prometheus, Atlas, and Epimetheus |
Mnemosyne | memory |
Oceanus | Titan, pictured as a limitless stream |
Phoebe | Titan, grandmother of Apollo |
Rhea | Titan, wife of Kronos |
Tethys | Titan, mother of rivers, sister of Oceanus |
Thea | Titan, wife of Hyperion |
Themis | justice, order, mother of the seasons and the Fates |