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Saturday, May 16, 2020

List of major Greek gods

This post is a list of the 14 major Greek gods. I have included the 13 gods included in the Twelve Olympians along with Hades. I have listed the gods below alphabetically.

Aphrodite - love, beauty

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Pasztilla (Attila Terbocs)

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Apollo - music, truth

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, PictureObelix

License: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

Ares - war

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, GFreihalter

License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Artemis - hunting, wilderness

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Daderot

Athena - wisdom, civilization

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Yair Haklai

License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Demeter - agriculture

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Dionysus - wine, festival

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Lalupa

License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Hades - underworld, dead

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Jebulon

Hephaestus - blacksmith, carpenter

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Jastrow

Hermes - messenger, merchant

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Jebulon

Hestia - hearth, home

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, University of Cambridge

Hera - family, maternity

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Daderot

Poseidon - sea, storms

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Dornum72

License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Zeus - sky, thunder

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Andrew Bossi

License: CC BY-SA 2.0