A | B |
Chaos | gaping void in the beginning |
Tartarus | underworld |
Titans | children of Uranus and Gea |
Uranus | the sky |
Gea | mother earth |
Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty, born from castrated parts of Uranus |
Cronus | son of Uranus and Gea who castrates Uranus and loses in the Titanomachy |
Prometheus | "fore-thought"; created humans |
Epimetheus | "after-thought" |
Hestia | goddess of the hearth and home |
Demeter | goddess of grain |
Hera | wife of Zeus |
Hades | god of the underworld |
Poseidon | god of the sea |
Hephaestus | god of fire; blacksmith |
Pandora | first woman; means "all gifts" |
Persephone | daughter of Demeter; married to Pluto |
Ares | god of war |
Muses | goddesses of artistic inspiration |
Delphi | city founded by Apollo; populated by Cretans |
Pan | satyr; yelled loudly |
Hermes | messenger god; made the lyre; stole cattle of Apollo |
Athena | born from the head of Zeus; goddess of wisdom |
Actaion | hunter who sees Artemis bathing--turned into stag and killed by his own hunting dogs |