This book deals specifically with sixteenth-century depictions of the Olympian deities, the twelve supreme deities of ancient Greece and Rome ... This form of depicting the Olympians, or the pagan ...

all of them related to Gaia - the Creator the Earth - and Ouranos - the God of the sky and the stars. Twelve of the most import gods are called The Olympians, named after Mount Olympus ...

12 gods, called the Titans; three one-eyed giants, called the Cyclopes; and three creatures called the Hecatoncheires, each with 50 heads and 100 hands. Gaia loved all of her strange offspring ...