12 Olympian Gods : One Of The 12 Olympian Gods

She was the great Olympian goddess of wise counsel, war, and was heroic. She is known as Athena, she is the daughter of Zeus and when she was born she did not have a mother, because from stories they say she was born from Zeus’s head. Athena since she was the goddess of wisdom and war she never lost a battle ever, she always made her own decisions to everything. After her battle strategies and being not so friendly on the field she did have compassion. By teaching woman to weave and pottery she was very nice. Athena has a very interesting history when it comes to everything she does such as how she was born, battle skills, and compassion.

The Goddess Persephone was a very beautiful and well worshiped goddess, she was loved by all, do to how she was very kind and caring as well as being able to bring warmth to the earth also known as spring. Persephone is the daughter of Zeus the king of all gots and the daughter of Demeter the goddess of the harvest. Indeed she was very beautiful, or at least enough to catch the eye of the ruler of the underworld. He then fell instantly in love with her and knew he had to have her. So he devised a plan to take her as his own. One day Persephone was picking flowers for her mother Demeter when she noticed a beautiful scent and decide to follow it. After wandering off from the field she looked up at birds fluttering and suddenly the sky began to

Dionysus, son of Zues and Semele and Apollo, son of Zues and Leto, both were born under strange conditions. Dionysus was born from the thigh of Zues after being fully grown, and Apollo's mother, Leto, was in labor for nine days with him because Hera did not want him to be born and would not give Leto a safe place for the child to be

And off they went, they left from the port of Piraeus, and travelled through the Atlantic Seas, to Cape Town, Africa and kept sailing.They travelled for thirty-four days on the Italian “Kirina”. “The boat was so small we almost drowned and the seas were very rough” said my grandmother in a sad tone.My γιαγιά hated the trip and could not wait to be free in Australia, she didn’t enjoy the trip, she was never allowed out of the cabin because she was too ‘young’.

“Go in peace” she replied, “and be happy in your daughter; I have lost mine.” (Bulfinch’s Mythology, pg 54, para 1). The farmer and his daughter sat with Demeter and cried with her. They invited her to stay for the night and introduced her to the sick son of the farmer. Demeter healed the boy and tried to make him immortal, but was stopped by the farmer’s wife. Demeter left the farm still searching for Persephone. Demeter came across a river nymph that knew what happened to Persephone. She dared not to tell, because she fears Hades. The nymph did give Demeter the girdle that Persephone dropped. Demeter sure her daughter was dead blamed the earth. Blaming the earth Demeter stopped fertilizing the land. The cattle died, the crops weren’t growing, there was too much sun and rain. Seeing this the nymph told the goddess what she saw. The goddess Demeter heard this and rode her chariot to meet Zeus. Zeus agreed to help,

• Eithinoha – daughter of Iagentci or better known as the goddess who fell from the sky

Mother and daughter were finally reunited. Ceres sensing that something was wrong questioned her daughter. Finally Proserpina admitted to being trick in to eating the food of the underworld. Demeter again was distraught because she know to eat the food of the underworld means that person must return to the underworld. Jupiter powerless to do anything decreed that Proserpina spend 1/3 of the year in the underworld with her new husband and the other 2/3 she was allowed to return to earth or Olympus. She would now be known as the goddess of the underworld. With this compromise Ceres restore to order the growing of crops and put an end to the famine and starvation. From the union of Proserpina and Pluto came Plutus the god of wealth.

Hera: Queen of all the gods and goddesses, she is the goddess of marriage and family. Her symbols are the Peacock and the Cow. Hera is sister to Hades, Poseidon, and also wife of Zeus. Zeus had an affair with a mortal and had a kid named Heracles. When Hera heard about it she got mad so she decided to punish Heracles for it and sent snakes to attack him in his crib.

However, Odysseus’s crew gets curious and says that since we could see Ithaca, we will just open it now, but then it is written in the text afterwards, “Odysseus’s men open the sack, letting loose a storm that derives them back to Aeolia”(Homer 576). The god of wind then sends the crew to the Island of Laestrygonians, and its creatures on destroy all the ships but one. The king of Ithaca, Odysseus, and his men escape and reach to a different island with a sorceress-goddess named Circe and she turns the crew into swine but does not work on Odysseus because Hermes gave him a magical herb before, and then Odysseus demands Circe to turn his men back human. She does so and before they leave, Circe says to go to the underworld and meet the prophet Tiresias. She says to Odysseus “I see destruction for ship and crew”(Homer 579).

Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus who suffered the most from his everlasting curse on his family. Before the curse was put on Tantalus’ family, she lived a happy life with her husband, Amphion, along with their seven daughters and seven sons. One day, there is a ceremony held in honor of Leto and Niobe becomes jealous of her. Niobe thought that she should be honored because she had fourteen children while Leto only had two, Apollo and Artemis. Niobe’s envy got the best of her and she began to brag to mislead the gods. When Apollo and Artemis found out that Niobe had been disrespecting their mother, they decided to punish Niobe by shooting all fourteen of Niobe’s children with a deadly aim leaving all fourteen children dead. Seeing her children die, Niobe was left devastated and she sank in a stony grief turning her whole body into stone. Today, Niobe is still a stone, which is wet with tears of Niobe’s eternal mourning. This myth demonstrates that one’s arrogance can lead to tragedy if they let it take over them. Niobe let her ego defy the gods, which led to the death of her own

Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo and the daughter of Zeus and Leto. Her mother gave birth to her on the island of Ortygia and after she was born she immediately helped her mom give birth to her twin brother and with that“...becoming the protector of childbirth and labour.” (Megas, 1997-2017)

Another way Diana contributed to the Ancient world was by devoting herself to never marry. She was not the only virgin goddess though. Athena and Hestia are some others. Diana was worshipped in her temple in Ephesus, and you can even see some of her worship in

One day, Zeus heard humans talking about her beauty, and the way that she ignored all the men. He came to the Earth to see by himself. In the same day, Tisk, the mother of

She and all the people in the land including Prometheus had now had hope. As time passed the people were able to pass hardships with hope inside them. Zeus was present on how the people prospered so as a result, he let Prometheus go from the chains that were attached to a

Pluto’s care. Mercury is honored with the Matralia festival, that took place during the summer. It is said that only four hours after he was born Mercury found the shell of a turtle and made a musical instrument out of it with nine cords to honor the nine Muses. Mercury later fell in love with a woman named Larunda. Laranda told Juno of Jupiter’s affair with a nymph and as punishment he cut out her tongue. On his way to escort Laranda to the underworld Mercury fell in love with her, and she later had their two children. Mercury hid them away on earth in a cottage so Jupiter would not find them and finish what he started. Mercury also later had a son named Pan, and he was on the council of gods.