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Apollo
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God of healing arts and light, son of Zeus and Leto, gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy, killed the Python, a dragon that guarded the oracle of Delphi
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Nike
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Goddess of Victory, usually seen as a winged messenger carrying a palm leaf or branch and garland in the other.
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Dionysus
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god of the vine, mother Semele, sewn into Zeus thigh as a fetus and carried to maturity.
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Hera
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Zeus' sister and wife, 2nd most powerful of the gods. protector of the home, marrage, and childbirth
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Hermes
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God of commerce, wealth, good luck, and roads and messenger of the Gods
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Pan
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God of herds, flocks, and rural things, Human top with goat horns and a goat lower half.
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Hades
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God of the underworld
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Demeter
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Goddess of Fruitfulness and vegetation. mother of Persephone, her absence in looking for her daughter caused the crops to die that "explains" the growing season
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Zeus
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supreme god and leader of all the others even though he shared rule with his brothers
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Hypnos
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the god of sleep, son of Nyx, brought sleep by touching heads
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Eris
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goddess of discord, night was her father and Ares, show up at a wedding with a golden apple
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Gaea
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Earth Goddess, daughter of Chaos (Titan) and the mother of Uranus and Pontus, because she was a god she was their mother and wife and made the Cyclops and the Titans with them.
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Hebe
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represented youth and grade, daughter of Zeus and Hera and the cupbearer to the gods
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Persephone
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daughter of Zeus and Demeter, taken by Hades, ate pomegranates, stayed with Hades, half the year (when the plants die)
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Pluto
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confusing... but the god of wealth from the ground (gold, crops and such) sometimes confused as Hades.
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Heracles
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a demi-god, son of Zeus and mortal Alcmene who was tricked as Zeus took the form of her husband. Hera hated him from birth, undertook 12 Labors
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Mount Olympus
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Home of the Greek Gods
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Athena
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Goddess of wisdom, Daughter of Zeus and Metis, Zeus at Metis, got a terrible head ache, they split his head open and out popped this militant goddess
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Moerae
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three old women that carried other the will of the gods in controlling all individual destinies.
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Artemis
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Apollo's twin sister, a hunter and the protector of the young, a virgin and goddess of chastity, also goddess of the moon
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