Greek Olympians - Mythopedia
2022年12月9日 · The twelve Olympians consist of most of the major gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon. Immortals who ruled their human subjects from on high, they were constantly fighting, fooling, and having affairs with each other, often with dire consequences.
Leto – Mythopedia
2022年12月7日 · Leto was the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, two of the original twelve Titans (though Hyginus called her a daughter of Polus). Her sister was Asteria, the mother of Hecate. Leto was one of Zeus’ many lovers. Together they had Apollo and Artemis, two of the twelve Olympian gods. Family Tree. Parents
Titans - Mythopedia
2023年3月13日 · In the most widely accepted account—known above all from Hesiod’s Theogony—the Titans were the twelve children of the primordial gods Uranus and Gaia. Their siblings included the Cyclopes (Brontes, Arges, and Steropes) and the Hecatoncheires (Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges), as well as many other important early gods and creatures.
Giants - Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Roman authors, meanwhile, tended to conflate the Giants with other fearsome opponents of the Olympian gods, including the Titans and the Aloads. Iconography. Beginning in the early to mid-sixth century BCE, the Giants and their war against the gods (the Gigantomachy) became extremely popular subjects in ancient Greek art.
Greek Titans - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · The Titans were immortal deities who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians. The original twelve Titans—the children of the primordial gods Gaia (earth) and Uranus (heaven)—assumed power by overthrowing their tyrannical father, only to become tyrants themselves. Cronus, the youngest Titan, became king after usurping Uranus.
Apollo – Mythopedia
2023年4月11日 · Like the other Olympian gods, Apollo had a rich temple cult and was honored with regular festivals throughout the Greek world, including the Pythian Games at Delphi. He was also worshipped in connection with aspects of everyday life, such as health and medicine. Ritual invocations called paeans were sung to Apollo in various contexts.
Hestia - Mythopedia
2023年4月14日 · On the other hand, the altar of the Twelve Olympians—also, incidentally, in the city of Athens—included Hestia but not Dionysus. For some, Dionysus’ presence among the Twelve Olympians is yet another sign of Hestia’s peaceful and generous nature: she may have given up her seat to the younger Dionysus in order to prevent conflict among ...
Heracles (Play) - Mythopedia
2023年3月6日 · The Heracles is a tragedy by Euripides, usually dated to around 415 BCE. In the play, Heracles returns home after completing his Twelve Labors, just in time to save his family from a violent usurper. But he is driven mad by the gods and ends up killing the wife and children he has just saved.
Hermes - Mythopedia
2023年4月17日 · His status among the other Olympian gods was a complex one: though one of the Twelve Olympians himself, Hermes was also the messenger of the gods, representing communication between the powerful, remote gods and the mortals whose lives were often at …
Artemis - Mythopedia
2023年4月13日 · The Twelve Gods of Greece and Rome. Leiden: Brill, 1987. Petrovic, Ivana. “Transforming Artemis: From the Goddess of the Outdoors to City Goddess.” In The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations, edited by Jan Bremmer and Andrew Erskine, 209–27. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.