His myth is very different. Asclepius is said to have been killed by Zeus as Asclepius had brought back Hippolytus back from the dead in exchange for gold. This angers Hades who asks Zeus to kill him. Zeus kills him with his thunderbolt. Who is the fastest Greek god? Who was the youngest Greek god? Who are the 14 Olympian gods? Terms in this set 14 Zeus. Jupiter or Jove. Who is the oldest of the gods?
Zeus matured safely until he was old enough to force his father to regurgitate his five siblings Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia. Kirk points out in The Nature of Greek Myths, with the oral rebirth of his brothers and sisters, Zeus, once the youngest, became the oldest. Who is Athena? Athena, also referred to as Athene, is a very important goddess of many things. She is goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.
Accounts differ as to the birth of Hephaestus. Some name him the son of Zeus and Hera, others say he was conceived by Hera alone in order to get back at Zeus for the birth of Athena. However, Hephaestus was horribly ugly — at least by the standards of gods and goddesses.
Repulsed by his appearance, Hera hurled him from Olympus, which left him permanently lame. His forges produce the fire of volcanoes. Hephaestus married the unrivaled beauty, Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Zeus may have arranged the marriage to stop the Olympian gods from fighting over her. However, a popular tale says that Hephaestus trapped his mother in a specially crafted throne in anger for her treatment of him, and only agreed to release her when he was promised the hand of Aphrodite.
She preferred the wild and rough Ares. He placed an invisible web of chains around his bed and trapped Aphrodite and Ares, naked, in the midst of one of their amorous meetings. He summoned the other gods and goddesses, who joined him in mercilessly mocking the ensnared lovers. When they were finally freed, they both fled Olympus in humiliation for a short time. Aphrodite also enjoyed a number of flings with mortal humans, and is perhaps best known for promising the beautiful, already married Queen Helen to the youth Paris and thus kicking off the legendary Trojan War.
Ares was the god of war, but in direct contrast to his sister, Athena. Where Athena oversaw strategy, tactics, and defensive warfare, Ares reveled in the violence and bloodshed that war produced. His aggressive nature and quick temper made him unpopular with the other Olympians, with the exception of Aphrodite, and he was equally disliked among mortals. His cult of worship was far smaller than other gods and goddesses, though he was quite admired by the war-like Spartans of southern Greece.
Despite his association with war, he is often described as a coward, running back to Olympus in a sullen fury every time he received the slightest wound. Hermes had a very diverse collection of skills, as the god of trade, eloquence, wealth, luck, sleep, thieves, travel, and animal-raising. He is also always characterized as mischievous. He was constantly in search of fun and entertainment.
As the messenger of the gods, Hermes ran many errands, including killing the monster Argos to release Io, rescuing Ares from his imprisonment by giants, and talking Calypso into freeing Odysseus and his men from her clutches.
It was also his duty to escort souls into the underworld. As the god of wine, wine-making, merriment, theater, and ritual madness, Dionysus was an easy favorite among Olympians and mortals alike. Hephaestus Hephaestus was the god of fire, metalworking, and building.
He was responsible for building many of the weapons of the gods and also crafted furniture and jewelry. He mostly kept to himself in his workshop. Apollo Apollo was the god of the sun, music, poetry, archery, and healing. He could predict the future and put an oracle in a temple in the city of Delphi that told the future to those who asked. Artemis Artemis was the goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and the moon.
She was the protector of little children and animals and could cause either disease or healing with her arrows. She could turn herself and others into animals. Athena Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war and was the chief goddess of the city of Athens, which was named for her. She was a great warrior. He is often described as a big, strong man with long, curly, hair.
He was usually drawn with a beard and carried his trusty thunderbolt at all times. But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone wrapped in baby clothes for Cronus to swallow.
She hid Zeus in a cave on the island of Crete.
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