Zeus
Roman Name: Jupiter, Jove
Duty: King, weather
Symbol: Thunderbolt, eagle
Hera
Roman Name: Juno
Duty: Queen, marriage
Symbol: Peacock, cow
Poseidon
Roman Name: Neptune
Duty: Sea, earthquakes, horses
Symbol: Trident, horse
Hades
Roman Name: Pluto, Dis
Duty: Underworld, wealth
Symbol: Bident, helmet of invisibilty
Demeter
Roman Name: Ceres
Duty: Agriculture
Symbol: Stalk of wheat
Hestia
Roman Name: Vesta
Duty: Home fire, hearth
Symbol: Hearth, fire
Ares
Roman Name: Mars
Duty: War
Symbol: Spear, dog, vulture
Hephaestus
Roman Name: Vulcan
Duty: Blacksmith
Symbol: Forge, anvil
Apollo
Roman Name: Apollo
Duty: Sun, prophecy, medicine, music
Symbol: sun, oracle at Delphi, lyre
Artemis
Roman Name: Diana
Duty: Hunting, moon
Symbol: Bow/arrow, moon
Athena
Roman Name: Minerva
Duty: Wisdom, war, handcrafts
Symbol: Owl, olive, helmet
Aphrodite
Roman Name: Venus
Duty: Love and beauty
Symbol: Dove, rose
Hermes
Roman Name: Mercury
Duty: Messengers, laughter, thieves
Symbol: Caduceus, winged sandals
Dionysus
Roman Name: Bacchus
Duty: Wine, life-giving fluids
Symbol: Grape leaves, thyrsus (stick with pine cone on top)
Persephone
Roman Name: Proserpina
Duty: Queen of underworld
Symbol: Pomegranate
Theseus
Mother: Aethra
Father: Aegeus (Poseidon?)
Perseus
Mother: Danae
Father: Zeus
Heracles
Mother: Alcmene
Father: Zeus (mortal dad = Amphitryon)
Achilles
Mother: Thetis
Father: Peleus
Aeneas
Mother: Aphrodite
Father: Anchises
Hector/Paris/Cassandra/Helenus
Mother: Hecuba
Father: Priam
Agamemnon/Menelaus
Mother: Aerope
Father: Atreus
Orestes/Electra/Iphigenia
Mother: Clytemnestra
Father: Agamemnon
Jason
Mother: Alcimide
Father: Aeson
Odysseus
Mother: Anticlea
Father: Laertes
Medea
Mother: n/a
Father: Aeetes
Daphne
Mother: n/a
Father: Peneius
Ariadne/Phaedra
Mother: Pasiphae
Father: Minos
Astyanax
Mother: Andromache
Father: Hector
Ascanius (Iulus)
Mother: Creusa
Father: Aeneas
Andromeda
Mother: Cassiopeia
Father: Cepheus
Dionysus
Mother: Semele
Father: Zeus
Hermes
Mother: Maia
Father: Zeus
Apollo/Artemis
Mother: Leto
Father: Zeus
Sarpedon/Minos/Rhadamanthys
Mother: Europa
Father: Zeus
Aeacus
Mother: Aegina
Father: Zeus
Helen/Polydeuces
Mother: Leda
Father: Zeus
Clytemnestra/Castor
Mother: Leda
Father: Tyndareus
Telemachus
Mother: Odysseus
Father: Penelope
Arachne
boasted better weaver than Athena; turned into a spider
Atalanta
fastest runner; run faster to marry her; Hippomenes used Golden Apples to beat her; forgot to thank Aphrodite - turned into lions
Midas
golden touch; said Pan was a better musician than Apollo - donkey ears - reeds
Icarus
flew too close to sun with wings dad (Daedalus) made; Icarian sea
Bellerophon
tamed Pegasus with a golden bridle; killed Chimaera; tried to fly Pegasus to Olympus
Phaethon
asked dad (sun god) to drive chariot of sun; couldn't handle horses, burned earth, etc; lightning bolt
Deucalion and Pyrrha
repopulated earth with stones thrown over their shoulders
Baucis and Philemon
hospitable to Zeus and Hermes dressed as beggars; became priests of Zeus' temple; died together - became trees (oak and linden)
Pyramus and Thisbe
Romeo and Juliet; talked through crack in wall; met at mulberry bush; he kills himself when he thinks she was eaten by a lion, then she kills herself; mulberries turn red.
Aurora and Tithonus
She is goddess of Dawn, asks Zeus for immortality for Tithonus - forgets to ask for eternal youth - grasshopper.
Meleager
son of Oeneus and Althaea; kills Calydonian Boar; gives Atalanta trophy; uncles mad - fight - he kills uncles; mom kills him by burning the log that had the same life span.
Punished in Underworld
1 IXION - spinning wheel of fire
2 TITYUS - bird eats liver daily
3 SISYPHUS - rolls boulder up hill
4 TANTALUS - eternal hunger and thirst
5 DANAIDS - 49 sisters who carry water in leaky bucket
9 Muses
1. Calliope (Epic Poetry)
2. Clio (History)
3. Erato (Love Poetry)
4. Euterpe (Music)
5. Melpomene (Tragedy)
6. Polyhymnia (Hymns)
7. Terpsichore (Dance)
8. Thaleia (Comedy)
9. Urania (Astronomy)
3 Graces (Charity)
1. Aglaia (Beauty)
2. Euphrosyne (Mirth)
3. Thalia (Good Cheer)
3 Fates (Moirae/Parcae)
1. Clotho (spinner)
2. Lachesis (allotter)
3. Atropos (cutter of the thread/inevitable)
3 Furies
1. Alecto
2. Megaera
3. Tisiphone
5 Rivers in the Underworld
1. Styx (hate/ oaths of gods)
2. Lethe (forgetfulness)
3. Plegethon (fire)
4. Cocytus (wailing)
5. Acheron (pain)
Monsters
1. Charybdis - whirlpool
2. Chimera - part lion, goat, snake
3. Cerberus - 3 headed dog
4. Centaur - Horse's body/man's torso, head, arms
5. Echidna - mother of all monsters - half nymph, half snake
6. Orthus (Orthrus) - 2 headed dog
7. Satyr - part goat,
Homeric Heroes - Greeks
1. Menelaus - King of Sparta, husband of Helen
2. Agamemnon - King of Mycenae/king of the Greeks; husband of Clytemnestra
3. Achilles - Best fighter of Greeks; son of Pelias and Thetis
4. Ajax the Greater - 2nd greatest fighter of Greeks, vied with Odysse
Homeric Heroes - Trojans
1. Priam -- King of Troy; name means "ransomed one"/ originally named Podarces
2. Hecuba - wife of Priam; mother of Hector, Priam, Cassandra, Helenus and others
3. Hector - best fighter of Trojans, killed by Achilles
4. Paris - son of Priam, "stole" Helen
Heracles Notes
Heracles was born with the name Alcides to Alcmene and Zeus (Zeus visited Alcmene as her husband Amphytrion).
Heracles has a twin, Iphicles, whose dad is Amphytrion
Hera always hated Heracles - when he was 8 months she sent 2 snakes to kill him (he strang
Jason Notes
Jason's father, Aeson, was king of Iolcus.
Then Aeson's brother Pelias took over Iolcus with his army.
Aeson sent Jason away to be raised by the centaur Chiron so he would not be killed by Pelias.
Pelias heard an oracle that he should beware the man with
Theseus Notes
His mom is Aethra, princess of Troezen, his dad is Aegeus, king of Athens (some say Poseidon). Aegeus leaves a sword and pair of sandals for Theseus under a boulder. When Theseus is old enough to lift the boulder, they are his and he should visit his fath
Perseus Notes
Acrisius put his daughter Danae in a bronze tower because he heard from an oracle that any of her children would kill him.
Zeus saw her and visited her as a shower of gold and they had a son named Perseus.
Acrisius put Danae and Perseus in a box and set i