Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...
Eris was the personification of strife and discord in Greek mythology, said to delight in ... after Ouranos’s castration to the primordial goddess of night, Nyx. She was one of several siblings ...
In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...