Ancient

Greek

gods

Charlie Betz

May 2012

zeus

• Zeus is king of the gods and god of thunder and lightning. He is the son of Gaia and the Titan Kronos. He took Kronos’s power.

Poseidon

• Poseiden is the god of the sea and storms. He is the brother of Zeus.

hades

• Hades is god of the dead and lives in the underworld. He is also the brother of Zeus. All the great Gods are sons of Kronos and Gaia.

aries

• Aries is the god of war. He is the son of Zeus. He is very vain.

dyonisis

• Dyonisis is god of wine. He loves to party. In Percy Jackson books he likes playing PacMan!

athena

• Athena is goddess of wisdom. She is the daughter of Zeus. And she is the goddess of battle strategy. She is tough. Her symbol is the owl because owls are said to be wise.

hera

• Hera is queen of the gods, wife of Zeus, and mother of Athena and Aries. She is the goddess of marriage and family. Hera interferes a lot. But she’s not really bad.

Artemis

• Artemis is goddess of hunting and the moon. She is the twin on Apollo. She travels with the hunters of Artemis who are all girls. She doesn’t like men.

Hermes

• Hermes is god of trickery and medicine and he is the messenger of the gods. He has a staff with two snakes on it called a caduceus.

Apollo

• Apollo is god of the sun, poetry and literature, music and dance. He drives a golden chariot like Helios the old god of the sun but in the Percy Jackson books he drives a sports car.

Hestia

• Hestia is goddess of the hearth which is a fireplace. In the old days families spent a lot of time there talking so Hestia would know lots of secrets.

Aphroditi

• Aphroditi is goddess of love. Her symbol is a dove. She is married to Hephaestus but she loves Aries. She is a lot more than beautiful.

hephaEstus

• Hephaestus is god of the forge. He makes weapons and armour for the gods. The cyclops works for him. He has a black beard and is always dirty. When he was a baby Hera dropped him off the edge of Olympus because he was ugly.

This is Olympus

The Gods live here!