Saturday, May 16, 2020

List of major Greek gods

This post is a list of the 14 major Greek gods. I have included the 13 gods included in the Twelve Olympians along with Hades. I have listed the gods below alphabetically.

Aphrodite - love, beauty
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Pasztilla (Attila Terbocs)
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Apollo - music, truth
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, PictureObelix
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Ares - war
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, GFreihalter
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Artemis - hunting, wilderness
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Daderot



Athena - wisdom, civilization
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Yair Haklai
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Demeter - agriculture
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta
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Dionysus - wine, festival
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Lalupa
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Hades - underworld, dead
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Jebulon



Hephaestus - blacksmith, carpenter
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Jastrow



Hermes - messenger, merchant
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Hestia - hearth, home
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, University of Cambridge



Hera - family, maternity
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Daderot



Poseidon - sea, storms
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Dornum72
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Zeus - sky, thunder
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Andrew Bossi
License: CC BY-SA 2.0