Bust of Athena, type of the “Velletri Pallas” (inlaid eyes are lost). Copy of the 2nd century CE after a votive statue of Kresilas in Athens (ca. 430–420 BC)
Greek Mythology

Athena (Minerva)

Athena, also referred to as Athene, is the Olympian goddess of wisdom, handicraft and war and the adored patroness and protectress of the city of Athens. In her role as protector, she was also revered in many other major cities, notably as patron of Sparta, as the founder of Thebes in Boeotia, and at Corinth where she appeared on the city’s coins. She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors.

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Greek Mythology

Hera (Juno)

Who is Hera? Hera (Roman name: Juno), is the Queen of the Greek gods and is the wife and sister of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family.

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Zeus and Hera Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology

Zeus (Greek Mythology)

The Greek god Zeus was the sixt and last child of Cronus and Rhea. Cronus would swallow his own newborns because he feared that children would overthrow him as he did unto his father Uranus. In an effort to save her last child Zeus, Rhea gave birth in a cave and made her husband swallow a stone instead of Zeus.

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Greek Mythology

The Creation of Humankind (Greek Mythology)

Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man The classic Greek Five Ages of Man came from an 8th century BCE poem written by a shepherd named Hesiod, who along with Homer became one of the earliest of Greek epic poets. Hesiod to write the 800-line epic poem called Works and Days. In it, Hesiod tells a Greek creation story that traces the lineage of mankind through five successive “ages” or “races” including the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, the Heroic Age, and the present Iron Age.

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Zeus and Hera Greek Mythology
Roma Mitolojisi Yunan Mitolojisi

Zeus (Yunan Mitolojisi), Jupiter (Roma Mitolojisi)

Makale: Özhan Öztürk ZEUS (Yunanca Ζεύς) Yunan Mitolojisinde Olympos tanrılarının efendisi ve insanoğlunun babası olup, Roma panteonundaki Jupiter’in karşılığıdır (Hesiodos, Theogonia 886).

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