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Lit: Greek Deities
Greek / Roman deities and their areas of reign
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |