The Most Famous Characters in Geek Mythology.

The Gods

• Aphrodite: Goddess of love and beauty. Daughter of Zeus and Dione. Wifeof Hephaestus, lover of Ades.
• Apollo: God of Music and Healing, son of Zeus and Leto, twin brother of Artemis.
• Ares: God of War, son of Zeus and Era.
• Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Hunt, wilderness and animals. Daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin sister of Apollo.
• Athena: Goddess of Wisdom, Reason and Warfare, daughter of Zeus. Patron of the city of Athens.
• Demeter: Goddess of Grain, Harvest and Agriculture, sister of Zeus.
• Dionysus: God of Wine, Vegetation and Theatre, son of Zeus.
• Hades: King of the Underworld and the dead.AlsoGod of wealth,son of Cronus and Rea, brother of Zeus.
• Hephaestus:God of fire, metalworks and crafts. Son of Hera.
• Hera: Queen of Marriage and Women, Lady of the Gods. Wife and sister of Zeus.
• Hermes: God of Travel, Trade and Language. Messenger of the Gods, son of Zeus and Maia.
• Hestia: Virgin Goddess of hearth, chastity and home. Daughter of Chronos and Rea, sister of Zeus.
• Poseidon: God of the Sea and Rivers. Son of Cronus and Rea, brother of Zeus.
• Zeus: God of the sky and Kigof the Gods on Mount Olympus. Youngest son of Cronus and Rea.

The TwelveTitans

• Coeus:Titan of intellect.
• Crius: Titan of Constellations.
• Cronus:Titan of harvests and personification of destructive time. The leader of the Titans.
• Hyperion: Titan of Light, father of Helios (sun), Selene (moon) and Eos (dawn).
• Iapetus: Titan of mortality and father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, and Atlas.
• Mnemosyne:Titaness of memory and remembrance,mother of the Nine Muses.
• Oceanus: Titan of riverOceans around the earth, the fount of all the Earth’s fresh-water.
• Phoebe: Titaness of the intellect and prophecy, wife of Coeus.
• Rhea: Titaness of fertility andmotherhood. Sheis the sister and wife of Cronus.
• Tethys: Titaness of fresh-water, and the mother of the rivers, springsand clouds.
• Theia:Titaness of sight and sky. Wife of Hyperion, and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
• Themis:Titaness of order and law.

DeifiedMortals

• Achilles: Hero of the Trojan War.
• Aeolus: King of Thessaly, made immortalking of all the winds by Zeus.
• Ariadne: Cretan princess, became the immortalwife of Dionysus.
• Aristeus:Thessalian hero,hisinventionssawhimimmortalisedas the god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing, and hunting.
• Asclepius:Thessalian physician who was struck down by Zeus, was laterrecovered by his father Apollo.
• Heracles: Ascendedhero.
• Minos: king of Crete, appointedas a Judge of the Dead in the Underworld.
• Psyche:Goddess of the soul
• Semele: mortal mother of Dyonisus