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Prayer
The Titans and the 12
Great Olympians
ZEUS (JUPITER)
Zeus and his brothers drew lots for
their share of the uni- verse. The sea
fell to Poseidon, and the underworld
to Hades. Zeus became the supreme
ruler. He was Lord of the Sky, the
Rain-god and the Cloud-gatherer, who
wielded the awful thunderbolt.
ZEUS (JUPITER)
His power was greater than that of all the other
divinities together. In the Iliad he tells his
family, "I am mightiest of all. Make trial that
you may know. Fasten a rope of gold to heaven
and lay hold, every god and goddess. You could
not drag down Zeus. But if I wished to drag you
down, then I would. The rope I would bind to a
pinnacle of Olym- pus and all would hang in
air, yes, the very earth and the sea too.
ZEUS (JUPITER)
Nevertheless he was not omnipotent or
omniscient, either. He could be opposed and
deceived. Poseidon dupes him in the Iliad and
so does Hera. Sometimes, too, the mysterious
power, Fate, is spoken of as stronger than he.
Homer makes Hera ask him scornfully if he
proposes to deliver from death a man Fate has
doomed.
ZEUS (JUPITER)
He is represented as falling in love with
one woman after another and
descending to all manner of tricks to
hide his in- fidelity from his wife.
HERA (JUNO)
She was Zeus's wife and sister. The Titans
Ocean and Tethys brought her up. She was
the protector of marriage, and mar- ried
women were her peculiar care. There is
very little that is attractive in the portrait
the poets draw of her. She is called, indeed,
in an early poem,
HERA (JUNO)
But when any account of her gets down to details,
it shows her chiefly engaged in punishing the
many women Zeus fell in love with, even when
they yielded only because he coerced or tricked
them. It made no difference to Hera how
reluctant any of them were or how innocent; the
goddess treated them all alike. Her implacable
anger followed them and their chil- dren too.
POSEIDON (NEPTUNE)
He was the ruler of the sea, Zeus’s
brother and second only to him in
eminence. The Greeks on both sides of
the Aegean were seamen and the God of
the Sea was all-important to them. His
wife was Amphitrite, a granddaughter of
the Titan, Ocean. Poseidon had a
splendid palace beneath the sea, but he
was oftener to be found in Olympus.
POSEIDON (NEPTUNE)
hestia (vesta)
Eros(Cupid)
•The most important of them was the
god of Love, Eros (Cupid in Latin).
IRIS
muses
Graces Mnemosyne (Memory). "Their hearts are set upon song
Aglia (Splendor)- She married Hephaestus, they are and their spirit is free from care"
treated as separate personalities but always
* Clio- Muse of History * Urania of astronomy
together a triple incarnation of grace and beauty.
Euphrosye (Mirth) * Melpomene of tragedy * Thalia of comedy
They were the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome( *Erato of love-poetry *Polyhyme of songs to the gods
child of titan, Ocean)
*Euterpe of Lyric Poetry
The God of
Water
POSEIDON
(Neptune), was the Lord and Ruler of the Sed the
Mediterrancan and the Friendly Sea (the Buxine,
now the Black Sea). Underground rivers, too, were
his.
Nereus was called the Old Man of the Sea (the Mediterranean)
"A trusty god and gentle, "They had fifty lovely daughters, the
nymphs of the Sea, called Nereids from their father's name, one of
whom, Thetis, was the mother of Achilles. Poseidon's wife,
Amphitrite, was another.
TRITON was the trumpeter of the Sea.
Tartarus Erebus
the deeper of the two and the This is where the dead pass on
prison of the sons of the Earth. as soon as they die.
The Lesser
God Of Earth
DEMETER (CE- RES)
the Goddes of the corn, she is the
daughter, Cronus and Rhea
Pan
He was Hermes son.
a noisy, merry god, the Homeric Hymn in
his honor calls him.
He was the goatherds' god, and the
shepherds' god, and also the gay
companion of the woodland nymphs when
they danced.
Pan
Upon his pipes of reed he played melodies
as sweet as the nightingale's song. He was
always in love with one nymph or another,
but always rejected because of his
ugliness.
SILENUS
was sometimes said to be Pan's son.
He was a jovial fat old man who usually rode an
ass because he was too drunk to walk.
He is associated with Bacchus as well as with
Pan; he taught him when the Wine-god was
young, and, as is shown by his per- petual
drunkenness, after being his tutor he became
his de- voted follower.
CENTAUR,
They were half man, half horse, and
forthe most part they were savage
creatures, more like beasts than men.
GORGONS
were also earth-dwellers. There were three,
and two of them were immortal.
They were dragonlike cree tures with wings,
whose look turned men to stone.
Phorcys, son of the Sea and the Earth, was
their father.
GRAIAE
Were their sisters, three gray women who
had but one eye between them. They lived
on the farther bank of Ocean.
SIRENS
lived on an island in the Sea.
They had en- chanting voices and their
singing lured sailors to their death.
It was not known what they looked like, for
no one who saw them ever returned.
The
Dii-Consemtes
THE DII CONSENTES:
TERMINUS - Guardian of
Boundaries. He is the ancient
Roman god of borders and
protector of boundary stones.
OTHER NOTABLE ROMAN GODS:
SYLVANUS-Helper of Plowmen
and Woodcutters. He is a Roman
tutelary deity of woods and
uncultivated lands.
OTHER NOTABLE ROMAN GODS:
Aguado, Sharmaine
Bautista, Jay Ar
Biscocho, Geralyn
Biscocho, Kyle
Bruce, Kc -lyn