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Greek Mythology

Greek Mythology
Western civilization.
Greeks had many deities, including 12 principal ones, who lived on Mt. Olympus. The
myths are all things to all people a rollicking good yarn, expressions of deep

They serve a timeless universal need, and have inspired great literature, art and music,
human behavior.
No-one has the definitive answer as to why or how the myths came into being, nut many
are allegorical accounts of historical facts.
The Olympian family were a desperate lot despite being related. The next time you have a
“cereal” for products of corn or edible grain derives from the goddess Roman name,
Ceres. In Greek the word for such products is demetriaka. Demeter was worshipped as
the goddess of earth and fertility.
statues he appears holding one.

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Ares, god of war, was a nasty piece of work fiery tempered, bloodthirsty, brutal and
virgin forever.
Hera was not a principal deity; her job was a subservient one she was Zeus cupbearer.
(complete with helmet, armor and spear) from Zeus head, with Hephaestus acting as
clay and water, and, as everyone knows, she had a box, from which sprang all the evils
afflicting humankind.
Apart fro one misdemeanor, Hephaestus character seems to have been exemplary. During
the Trojan War Athena asked the god to make her a new suit of armor. Poseidon, on
away, and Gaea, who happened to pass by, was inadvertently fertilized. When Gaeas
unwanted offspring was born, Athena brought him up, and he eventually became King
Erichthonius of Athens.
Apollo, god of the sun, and Artemis, goddess of the moon, were the twins of Leto and

goddess of childbirth and protector of children; yet, paradoxically, she asked Zeus if he
to hunt stags!
Hermes was born of Maia, daughter of Atlas and one of Zeus paramours. He had an
everyone fall in love with its wearer. The girdle meant she was constantly pursued by both

Hades dominion was the vast and mysterious underworld (Tartarus). He was the
once journeyed, ever returned.
A number of the countless lesser gods were powerful but never made it to Zeus inner
circle. Pan, the son of Hermes, was born with horns, beard, tail and goat legs. His ugliness
his shepherds pipe and watched over the pastures, shepherds and herds. Dionysos, son of
Hera and Zeus, was even more hideous at birth horned and crowned with serpents. His
parents boiled him in a cauldron, but he was rescued by Rhea, and banished to Mt. Nysa in
drunken revelries and married Ariadne, daughter of King Minos.
In addition to the gods the Ancient Greeks revered many beings who had probably once

mountain springs; they were believed to inspire poets, artists and musicians.
sometimes called the Furies whose job it was to deal with grievances from mortals, and
punish wrongdoers. They had dogs heads, snakes hair, bloodshot eyes, coal black bodies
and bats wings and carried brass-studded scourges. It was considered unlucky to call
them by name they had to be called Eumenides the kindly ones!
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