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Artemis (Diana)

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Artemis a Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Forests and Hills, the Moon, Archery.

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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)

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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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Demeter (Ceres)

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Demeter, who was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, was the goddess of cereal grains, earth and fertility of the World. Her name indicates that she is a mother. The best sources for the principal myth of Demeter are the “Second Homeric Hymn,” and the fifth book of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” where, naturally, the names of the main protagonists are changed to their Roman counterparts: Ceres, Pluto, and Proserpine.

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Poseidon (Neptunus)

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Poseidon, in Greek religion and mythology violent and ill-tempered god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses. One of the Twelve Olympians he is distinguished from Pontus, the personification of the sea and the oldest Greek divinity of the waters. Poseidon had many disputes with both gods and men, most famously with Athena and Odysseus. Poseidon’s name is very old, and its meaning is lost but various authors have tried to translate it as either“ means either “husband of the earth” or “lord of the earth.”

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Hera (Juno)

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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 (Greek Mythology)

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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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