Mythology Terms
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- Hercules/Heracles
- Strength, victory, lions skin, club, son of Jupiter and Alcmene, wife-Deianire who accidently killed him, repented for killing his family by 12 labors
- Diana/Artemis
- Nature, fertility, childbirth, hunting, bow and arrow, cresent moon, twin of Apollo, turned Actaeon into a stag and made his hounds kill him
- Vesta/Hestia
- home, hearth, domestic, sacred fire, donkey, fire was maintained by Vestal Virgins
- Jupiter/Zeus
- king of gods, lighting bolt, defeated father, many children and multiple affairs
- Ceres/Demeter
- Agriculture, grain, mother/child love, scepter, basket of fruit/flowers, snake, pig, daughter--persephone
- Juno/Hera
- Queen of gods, protector of women, childbirth, marriage, peacock, cow, guarded finances
- Cupid/Eros
- Love, bow and arrow, son of Venus and Mars
- Mercury/Hermes
- Messenger of Gods, Thieves, Luck, Trade, Caduceus, Money, winged sandals, talaria and petasus, Father of Pan (1/2 goat 1/2 man) Stole Apollo's cattle, created first lyre, guide for souls to underworld
- Venus/Aphrodite
- Godess of Love and Beauty, mirror, rose, dove, born from Uranus' blood, mother of Aeneas, ancestor of Julius Caesar
- Saturn/Cronus
- Agriculture, sowing seeds, sickle, swallowed kids and overthrown by Zeus, associated w/ Golden Age, holiday= Saturnalia
- Neptune/Poseidon
- Sea, Horses, earthquake, trident, dolphin, competed against Athena to name Athens
- Mars/Ares
- war, spring, crested helmet, shield, wolf, father of Romulus and Remus
- Vulcan/Hephaestus
- metalworking, fire, anvil, fire, married to venus, deformed and lame, sought revenge on mother and made a magical thrown she got stuck on
- Apollo
- music, sun, prophocy, lyre, sun, wolf, arrows, parents--jupiter and latona, god of light laurel tree
- Minerva/Athena
- War, Wisdom, Science, Owl, Aegis,Godess of victory, born from Jupiter's head, invented numbers and musical instruments
- Pluto/Hades
- god of underworld, death & wealth, cerberus, helmet, abducted Persephone, wealty b/c he enriches himself with tears
- Proserpina/Persephone
- underworld, pomegranate, abducted by hades, changes of seasons