Olympian Gods & Goddesses
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- Venus (Aphrodite)
- goddess of beauty and love, usually attended by her winged son Cupid, whose arrows strike both mortals and immortals. She was the divine mother of Aeneas, the Trojan hero and ancestor of the Romans.
- Mercury (Hermes)
- god of travelers and thieves and messenger of the gods; he carries the caduceus, a wand twined with two snakes. On his ankles and helmet are wings. He conducts the souls of the dead to the underworld.
- Apollo (Phoebus Apollo)
- god of archery, music, medicine, and oracles.His priestesses predicted the future at Delphi and Cumae
- Ceres (Demeter)
- goddess of the harvest and agriculture, whose daughter Proserpina is queen of the underworld and wife of Pluto (god of the underworld).
- Diana (Artemis)
- twin sister of Apollo, and goddess of the moon and of hunting. She is attended by a chorus of nymphs. The arc of the moon is her bow and its rays are her arrows.
- Juno (Hera)
- queen of gods and mortals, sister and wife of Jupiter, and protectress of women and marriage
- Minerva (Athena)
- goddess of wisdom, strategy in war, spinning, and weaving, creator of the olive tree, and protectress of Athens
- Mars (Ares)
- god of war, father of Romulus and Remus
- Vesta (Hestia)
- goddess of the hearth, the center of family life, and goddess of the state, symbolized by an eternal flame guarded by six maidens ("Vestal Virgins")
- Vulcan (Hephaestus)
- god of fire, blacksmith of the gods, and the forger of the thunderbolts of Jupiter and weapons of Aeneas.
- Neptune (Poseidon)
- god of waters and creator of the horse; his symbol is the trident, a three-pronged spear
- Jupiter (Zeus)
- king of gods and mortals, wisest of the divinities, wielder of thunderbolt