Aphrodite: goddess of love, beauty, sexual pleasure and fertility.
- she's insatiable and unattainable
- born near the coast of Cythera, out of the foam (aphros) of Uranus' castrated genitals
- married to Hephaestus, has had affairs with every Olympian except Zeus and Hades. she's most commonly linked to Ares
- romances with two humans, Anehises and Adonis
Apollo: god of sun, light, music, poetry, healing, plagues, prophecy and knowledge, order, beauty, agriculture and archery
- harmony, reason and moderation personified
- perfect blend of physicla superiority and male virtue
Ares: god of war
- represents destructive capacity of war
- personification of sheer violence and brutality
- hated by all gods and humans, with the exception of Aphrodite
- sons: Deimos and Phobos
Artemis: goddess of hunt, moon, chastity, childbirth and nature
- very protective of her and her priestesses innocence
Athena: goddess of wisdom, war, peace and handicrafts
- adored patronus of the city of Athens
Hades: god of the Underworld
- abducted Persephone and forced her to eat fruit from his garden so she couldn't leave (this is the most common myth)
Hephaestus: god of blacksmiths and fire
- husband of Aphrodite
- unclear if he was born lame, lamed after Hera threw him off of Olympus because of his looks or after Zeus threw him off of Olympus for taking Hera's side in an argument
Hera: goddess of marriage, family and welfare of women and children
- queen of Olympus, wife of Zeus
- jealous and vengeful, in a very unhappy marriage to Zeus
Hermes: god of roads, flocks, commerce and thieves
- winged herald and messenger of the Olympian gods
- only Olympian able to cros border between the living and the dead
Hestia: goddess of the hearth
- one of the original twelve Olympians
- Cronus and Rhea's first born, pure and peaceful
- later replaced in the Pantheon by much wilder Dionysus
Poseidon: god of the sea
- violent and ill-tempered, hot-blooded
- provoker of earthquakes, creator of horses
Zeus: god of the sky and thunder
- king of all gods and men
- Hephaestus, Hebe and Ares are his only legitimate children with Hera
- Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Dionysus, Heracles, Helen of Troy and The Muses are all results of his countless affairs
Dionysus: god of wine, grape vine, fertility, festivity, ecstasy, madness and resurrection
- patron god of art and theater
- youngest Olympian god
- only god to have a mortal mother
