Ancient Greek gods and goddesses

Grace Dow

Zeus

• King of all gods and all things• Married to Hera • Youngest of his siblings• His weapon was a thunder bolt• Son of Reah and Cronus• He saved his siblings from his fathers

stomach• Inheirited all the power from his father

and shared it with his brothers and sisters

Hera

• Queen of the gods• Married to Zeus• Very jealous of Zeus's other children

and wives

Hestia

• Goddess of the Hearth (the hearth is a house fire in a fire place)

• Daughter of Reah and Cronus• Saved by Zeus

Hades

• God of the underworld

Demeter

• Goddess of agriculture

Aphrodite

• Goddes of love and beauty• Married to Ares• Mother of Cupid• The fairest of all gods

Hermes

• Messenger for the gods• One of the only gods that got in and

out of the underworld• Had flying shoes• The shoes had wings

Poseidon

• God of the sea• Brother of Zeus