Greek/Roman Mytho

• Goddess of love
• marriage, lust, venal love, essence of feminine beauty
• Daughter of Zeus
• Roman-Venus

• sun-god, god of light, cultivated/protected crops, divination and prophecy, music, archer
• Son of Zeus and Leto
• Roman-Apollo

• god of war, blind, brutal courage, bloody rage/carnage
• Son of Zeus and Hera
• Roman-Mars

• agriculture, chase, forest, moonlight, archer
• Apollo's twin sister
• Daughter of Zeus and Leto
• Roman-Diana

• warrior goddess, arts of peace, prudent intelligence
• born fully armed, from skull of Zeus
• Roman-Minerva

• whirlpool that swallowed ships
• dwelt in Sicillian sea with Sirens
• Daughter of Poseidon and earth

• once a beautiful woman->monster with 6 ugly heads
• dwelt in Sicilian sea with Sirens

• Son of titans, married his sister Rhea
• 3 daughters (Hestia, Demeter, Hera)
• 3 sons (Poseidon, Hades, Zeus)
• Roman-Saturn

• goddess of earth and underworld, motherhood/fertile, cultivated soil, earth mother
• Daughter of Cronus and Rhea
• Roman-Ceres

• god of wine and pleasure
• Son of Zeus
• Roman-Bacchus

• youngest god, winged child, gracious and rebellious, armed with bow/arrows->fall in love
• Son of Aphrodite
• Roman-Cupid

• god of underworld, invisible, buried treasure, agricultural wealth.
• Son of Cronus/Rhea, brother Zeus
• Roman-Pluto

woman whose beauty launched 1k ships and began the Trojan war, wife to Menelaus, carried off by love struck Paris

• Zeus's wife, feminine existence, marriage, maternity, idealized wife
• Roman-Juno

• not a god but a hero, physical strength, founder of Olympic Games, 12 superhuman labors
• Son of Zeus and mortal woman
• Roman-Hercules

• god of travelers, conducts souls of dead to underworld, commerce and profit, tireless runner, messenger of Zeus
• Son of Zeus and Maia
• Roman-Mercury

• Apollo's habitual companions, goddesses of memory, poetic inspiration
• Clio-history, Euterpe-flute, Thalia-comedy, Melpomene-tragedy, Terpsichore-lyric poetry and dance, Erato-love poetry, Polyhymnia-mimic art, Urania-astronomy, Calliope-epic poetry and eloquence

• son of King of Thebes, killed his father and married his mom->blindness
• answered riddle of the Sphinx

• beautiful giant, hunter, has a dog (Sirius), lives in the sky, constellation
• son of mother eye

Son of Apollo, played lyre, voyage of Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece

• Son of Hermes, not a satyr but half-goat
• shepherd god of woods and pastures, protector of shepherds and flocks

first woman, unleashed terrible afflictions that spread over the earthc

• daughter of Demeter, wife of Hades
• seasons of year, myths of regeneration
• Roman-Proserpina

son of mortal woman and Zeus, not a god but a hero, killed Medusa and killed a sea monster to save Andromeda (princess)

• god of sea, water, vegetation, fecundity
• son of Cronus
• Roman-Neptune

created humans from earth and water, titan but allowed to live on Olympus

Dionysus, elementary spirits of the forests and mountains, Half man/goat, sensual and lascivious

sea monsters with birds bodies and women's heads, sang sweetly to lure travelers then killed them

• not a god but a hero, destroyed the Minotaur on Crete
• son of a mortal woman/man and Poseidon

first divine race, ancestors of humans, invention of arts and magic

• strange sea creatures, half men/fish, scales/sharp teeth/claws/fins/forked tails
• Hedonistic and lascivious

• supreme god, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, ruled according to fate and own will
• lived on Mt. Olympus
• Roman-Jupiter

• Son of Odin and Frigg
• beautiful, wisest and favorite of gods
• Norse

Frey's sister, lived in Folkvang, commander of Valkyries

• Njord's son
• peaceful, benevolent, mighty. A Vanir. Lived among the Aesir.
• powerful horse, sword, and golden boar

Aesir. Odin's wife. most revered of goddesses. Friday derived from her name. Posessed great wisdom and foresight. aka Frija

Frey's wife. daughter of a giant

god of light. ambiguous beginnings of things. Guardian of all the gods.

goddess who owned magic apples. gave gods/goddesses eternal youth/immortality

earth goddess. Thor's mother

mingled saliva of 2 races of gods Aesir and Vanir. Surpassed all men in wisdom. Blood mixed with honey->drink->Sage and poet

superior demon. handsome and attentive to goddesses. Thor's blood brother. mischievious

Thor's sons. Magni=strength Modi=anger

water demon. Odin's uncle, wise counselor, lived by Yggdrasil (world tree) ash tree in a fountain were all wisdom and knowledge were hidden

• a Vanir. peaceful, benevolent, mighty. Greatest of the Vanir.
• provided fields and pastures with sun and rain. god of harvest, game, riches, commerce, and navigation. Guarantor of oaths

• Aesir. principal god of Teutonic peoples. Wednesday derived from him= frenzy and fury.
• decided human's fates, handsome and eloquent, magician, god of spiritual life. warlike, but didn't fight, lived in Valhalla
• aka Woden

hero not a god. mortal descendant of Odin. pulled sword out of tree trunk

• Sigmund's son, inheritor of his sword
• aka Siegfried

• Njord's wife
• Daughter of a giant

• Aesir, god of thunder and war, Thursday comes from him, greatly feared
• chariot wheels=thunder and thunderbolts= fiery weapons
• rude, simple, noble, represented with a hammer
• aka Donan

• sky god, governs battles. spear=sign of judical power, Tuesday derived from him
• aka Tyr

supernatural women who lived in valhalla. guards/servants to gods, domestic/marital duties