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Apollo ( Phoebus Apollo) | god of sun, song, prophecy |
Bacchus (Dionysus) | god of wine |
Ceres (Demeter) | goddess of agriculture |
Cupid (Eros) | god of love |
Diana (Artemis) | goddess of the hunt, moon |
Faunus (Pan) | god of flocks and shepherds |
Janus (no Greek counterpart) | god of beginnings and doorways |
Juno (Hera) | queen of the gods, goddess of married women |
Jupiter (Zeus) | king of the gods |
Lares and Penates (no Greek counterpart) | household gods |
Mars (Ares) | god of war |
Mercury (Hermes) | messenger of the gods |
Minerva (Athena) | goddess of wisdom) |
Neptune (Poseidon) | god of the sea |
Pluto (Hades) | god of the lower world |
Saturn (Cronus) | god of the harvest |
Venus (Aphrodite) | goddess of love and beauty |
Vesta (Hestia) | goddess of the hearth |
Vulcan (Hephaestus) | god of fire |
Proserpina (Persephone) | queen of the underworld |
Aurora (Eos) | goddess of the dawn |
Iris | goddess of the rainbow, messenger of the gods |
Juventus (Hebe) | goddess of youth; cupbearer to the gods |
Muses | 9 goddesses of the arts and sciences |
Fates, Parcae (Moirae) | 3 who spun the thread of life, determined the length of life, and cut the thread of life |
Furies | 3, pursued evil doers who got away with crimes |
Olympus | home of the gods |
Styx | river in the underworld |
Tartarus (Hades) | the underworld |
Elysium | place for the blessed in the underworld |
Eris | goddess of discord who threw a golden apple labeled "to the fairest" into a wedding banquet to which she was not invited |
Hecate | goddess of witchcraft |
Hymen | god of marriage |
nectar | drink of the gods |
ambrosia | food of the gods |
Calliope | Muse of epic poetry |
Terpsichore | Muse of dancing |
Atlas | a Titan who carried the world on his shoulders |