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- ZEUS/JUPITER (JOVE)
- son of Cronus and Rhea
- supreme deity; sky (weather) men, oracles, married to Hera
- iconography: lighting bolt, eagle, oak(?), bull, scepter, cornucopia, aegis, ram, and lion
- children: Amphion, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Castor, Pollux Clytemnestra, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses
- HERA/JUNO
- daughter of Cronus and Rhea
- queen of the gods; special protectiveness of marriage and women, war; created the Milky Way married to Zeus
- iconography: "ox eyed," peacock, cow, crow, pomegranate
- children: Ares, Eris?, Hebe, Eileithyia?, Hephaestus
- POSEIDON/NEPTUNE
- son of Cronus and Rhea
- sea, water, horses, earthquakes, responsible for shipwrecks and drowning
- married to Amphrite
- iconography: trident
- children: Polyphemus, Arion, Otus, Pegasus, Chrysaor
- DEMETER/CERES
- daughter of Cronus and Rhea
- protectress of marriage, fertility, grain, agriculture; responsible for winter
- iconography: sheaf of grain, a conical headdress, a scepter, a torch, and a sacrificial bowl.
- children: Persephone
- ARES/MARS
- son of Zeus and Hera; or just Hera
- war, patron of husbandmen, violence
- seen with Phobos (Fear), Deimos (Terror), Eris (Strife) and Enyo (Horror)
- children: Harmonia, Penthesilea, Hippolyte
- HERMES/MERCURY
- son of Zeus and Maia (a Pleiades)
- messenger, boundaries, science, commerce, patron of travellers, rogues, vagabonds, thieves, bringing dead to the underworld (Psychopompos)
- iconography: winged shoes, caduceus, travellers hat, cape,
- children: Hermaphroditus, Tyche, Priapus, Autolycus, Myrtilus, Pan
- HEPHAESTUS/VULCAN
- kiln,
- married to Aphrodite
- children: Erichthonius
- APHRODITE/VENUS
- daughter of the sea and genitals of Uranus (after being castrated by his son, Cronus); daughter of Zeus and Dione
- love, beauty, sexuality
- married to Hephaestus
- iconography: usually depicted naked, swan, mirror, apple, dove, myrrh, dolphin
- children: Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, The Graces, Priapus, Aeneas
- ATHENA/MINERVA
- daughter of Zeus (technically Metis, too, an Oceanid, but Zeus swallowed Metis thereby becoming pregnant with Athena)
- wisdom, patroness of the arts and trades (agriculture, navigation, spinning, weaving, and needlework) Athens
- chaste/virgin but produced a son, Erichthonius, by attempted rape by Hephaestus. Half his semen fell on the ground, Gaia, so he is the offspring of all 3. He is half-snake and half-man and a mythological ancestor of the Athenians.
- iconography: with Nike, shield with Medusa's face, aegis, owl, distaff, helmet
- APOLLO/APOLLO
- son of Leto and Zeus
- archery, prophecy, music, healing, Muses (Apollo Musagetes), healing (Apollo Paeon), sun, youthful manhood, plague
- iconography: laurel, lyre, bow and arrow, tripod, omphalos
- children: Asclepius, Phaethon, Aristaeus, Orpheus
- ARTEMIS/DIANA
- daughter of Leto and Zeus
- the hunt, transitions, assist in childbirth
- chaste/virgin
- iconography: the bow and arrow
- HESTIA/VESTA
- daughter of Cronus and Rhea
- the hearth, altars, town halls and states; Rome
- chaste/virgin
- HADES/PLUTO
- son of Cronus and Rhea
- ruler of the Underworld
- married to Persephone
- iconography: crown, sceptor, key, dark haired,
- children: The Furies (Erinyes), Makaria (goddess of a blessed death
- DIONYSUS/BACCHUS
- son of Zeus and Semele and Harmonia of Thebes
- wine and drunken revelry
- iconography: ivy wreathed
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