| A | B |
|---|
| Zeus | The king of the gods |
| Hera | Her husband/brother is Zeus |
| Poseidon | The god of the seas and water |
| Demeter | Persephone's mother |
| Hestia | she attempted to perserve the peace of the gods' homestead at olympus |
| Ares | The god of war |
| Athena | She was the goddess of wisdom,war. |
| Apollo | He is the twin brother of Artemis |
| Artemis | Goddess of the chase/hunt |
| Aphrodite | Married to Hephaestus , but had four children by Ares |
| Hermes | The messenger of the gods |
| Hephaestus | Roman name gives us the word "volcano" |
| Prometheus | chained to a rock as punishment by Zeus |
| Atlas | Carries the dome of heaven on his shoulders |
| Hades | Zeus's brother who marries Persephone |
| Nike | Goddess of victory |
| Helios | The Titan god of the sun |
| Muses | singular=a band; plural (9 of them) inspires poets |
| Pandora | the first woman created by Hephaestus |
| Cupid | God of desire and son of Aphrodite |
| Psyche | hated by Aphrodite and marries a man whome she can not see. |
| Cerebus | Hades' three-headed dog |
| Pan | half man/half goat who is the god of rustic music |
| Orpheus | musically gifted descendant of the Muses |
| the Graces | three women also known as the Charites |
| Callisto | a mortal who is made a bear and then a God |
| Hecate | mother of Scylla and Charybdis; turned into a witch by medieval people |
| Triton | the father or mermen and mermaids |
