ENGLISH GREEK

• titans - earliest group
• Zeus - ruler of all divinities in Mount Olympus; the god of the sky

  and thunder
• Poseidon - god of the sea and earthquakes; Zeus’s brother
• Hades - god of the underworld, death, and wealth; Zeus’s brother
• Apollo - god of the sun, music, poetry, and purity; son of Zeus and

  Leto (daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe)
• Ares - god of war
• Hephaestus - god of fire;
• Hermes - god of commerce, travelers, and thieves;
• Hestia - goddess of the hearth
• Hera - goddess of marriage;
• Athena - goddess of wisdom and war;
• Aphrodite - goddess of love and beauty;
• Artemis - goddess of the hunt and the moon;
• Olympians - the most powerful group.
• Eros – god of love; also known as Cupid in Latin
• Dionysus – god of wine;
• Nymphs – beautiful maidens who were in charge of guarding various parts of nature
• Naiads freshwater nymphs
• Nereids and Oceanids - sea nymphs
• Oreads mountain nymphs
• Hamadryads tree nymphs
• Dryads - tree nymphs; oak trees
• Fates – three goddesses who controlled the destiny of men
• Clotho - spun the thread of life
• Lachesis - assigned each man his destiny
• Atropos - cut the thread of life
• Furies – responsible for punishing evildoers in the afterlife;
• Tisiphone - avenger of murder
• Megaera - punisher of crimes especially marital infidelity
• Alecto -punisher of moral crimes
• Muses – nine goddesses of different arts and sciences
• Clio - muse of history
• Urania - muse of astronomy
• Thalia - muse of comedy
• Melpomene - muse of tragedy
• Terpsichore - muse of dance
• Erato - muse of love poetry
• Calliope - muse of epic poetry
• Euterpe - muse of lyric poetry
• Polyhymnia - muse of songs to the gods