A | B |
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 (popular!) |
Mercury (Hermes) | messenger of the gods |
Minerva (Athena) | goddess of wisdom) |
Neptune (Poseidon) | god of the sea |
Pluto (Hades) | god of the underworld |
Saturnus (Cronus) | A Titan, Uranus' son, Jupiter's father, ate his kids (Jupiter etc.), rock made him vomit them up. |
Venus (Aphrodite) | goddess of love and beauty |
Vesta (Hestia) | goddess of the hearth |
Vulcan (Hephaestus) | god of fire, blacksmith of the gods |
Proserpina (Persephone) | queen of the underworld, Ceres' daughter, kidnapped by Pluto |
Aurora (Eos) | goddess of the dawn |
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 (mountain) |
Styx | river in the underworld |
Tartarus (Hades) | the underworld - one level for dead people, one level for the banished Titans |
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 |
Atlas | a Titan who carried the world on his shoulders |
Uranus | heaven, father of Saturnus (Cronus) and Rhea (Ops), overthrown by his son Cronus/Saturnus |
Gaea | earth, original mother of gods, wife of Uranus, children were the Titans |
Ops (Rhea) | Saturnus' wife, mother of Jupiter and some of the other Olympians |