Titans

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Titans
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Uranus

• Sky god and first ruler
• Son of Gaea, who created him without help
• Married Gaea produced 12 of the Titans
• Cronus father

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Cronus

• Married to Rhea
• Produced the first of the Olympians
• Ate his children
• Rhea tricked him into eating a rock instead of
  Zeus
• Zeus would grow up to revolt against his father
  and banish the Titans to Tartarus in the
  underworld
• Cronus managed to escape to Italy where he ruled
  as Saturn

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Rhea

• Wife of Cronus
• Mother of Zeus

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Prometheus

• The Wisest Titan
• Name means forethought
• Could tell the future
• Fought with Zeus against Titans
• Known as the protector of man
• Gave mankind fire tricked Zeus into allowing
  man to keep the best part of the animals
  sacrificed to the gods
• Punishment chained to a rock with an eagle
  tearing out his liver

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Epimetheus

• The Stupid Titan
• Accepted the gift of Pandora from Zeus, which
  lead to the introduction of evil into the world

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Atlas

• Brother to Prometheus and Epimetheus
• Led and fought with Titans against Zeus
• Punishment carry the weight of the world

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Metis

• The wisest Titaness
• Presided over all wisdom and knowledge
• Seduced by Zeus and became pregnant
• Zeus ate her and the baby she carried
• Athena was born from the forehead of Zeus

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The Olympians

• Zeus
• Poseidon
• Hades
• Hestia
• Hera
• Ares

• Athena
• Apollo
• Aphrodite
• Hermes
• Artemis
• Hephaestus

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Zeus

• Roman god - Jupiter
• Supreme ruler of the gods
• Ruled the sky
• Weapon of choice thunderbolt
• Married to Hera

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Poseidon

• Roman name Neptune
• Ruler of the seas
• Weapon of choice trident

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Hades

• Roman Pluto
• Ruler of the underworld
• God of wealth due to the precious metals mined
  from the earth
• NOT UNHAPPY in the underworld
• Wife Persephone
• Has a helmet that makes him invisible

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Hestia

• Roman Vesta
• Virgin goddess
• Goddess of the hearth (fireplace)
• Each city had a fireplace sacred to Hestia where
  the fire was never allowed to go out

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Hera

• Roman Juno
• Married to Zeus
• Tricked into the marriage
• Sacred animals are the cow and the peacock

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Ares

• Roman Mars
• Son of Zeus and Hera
• Disliked by both
• God of war
• Coward
• Bird is a vulture

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Athena

• Roman Minerva
• Daughter of Zeus
• Sprang full grown, in armor from the forehead of
  Zeus after Zeus ate her mother (Metis)
• Favored by Zeus
• Known for knowledge and wisdom
• Fierce and brave in battle, but doesnt like to
  fight

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Apollo

• Roman Apollo
• Son of Zeus and Leto twin sister named Artemis
• God of truth and healing
• Thought to be the god who harnessed his horses to
  the sun and brought the sun over the earth daily

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Aphrodite

• Roman Venus
• Goddess of love, desire, and beauty
• Married to Hephaestus, affairs with many
  (including Ares)
• Born from the sea foam from Uranus castration OR
  from Zeus and Dione (??)
• Her son is Eros (AKA Cupid)

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Hermes

• Roman Mercury
• Zeus messenger
• Has wings on his helmet, shoes, and back
• Fastest god his winged shoe is the symbol for
  track today
• Guide to the underworld

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Artemis

• Roman Diana
• Twin to Apollo
• Huntress of the gods
• Associated with the moon
• Virgin goddess

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Hephaestus

• Roman Vulcan
• Son of Zeus and Hera
• Crippled and ugly
• Two stories of how he became crippled 1) when he
  was born he was so ugly that Hera threw him from
  Mount Olympus, 2) After trying to break up a
  fight between his parents, Zeus hurled him off of
  Mt. Olympus

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