The Olympian divinities are the Greek divinities who, according to the mythology, resident on the Mont Olympe.

They nourish ambrosia and of Nectar, and generate other gods. They go down sometimes on Ground among the mortals, in order to help them, to punish them, but also to link itself, thus generating demigods.

The twelve Olympian ones

Traditionally, the Olympian gun is limited to twelve, six gods and six goddesses. The list of these divinities however varied according to the times, and in account in all fourteen different. Zeus, Héra, Poséidon, Ares, Hermes, Héphaïstos, Athéna, Apollo and Artémis is always counted among the twelve. They are supplemented by Hestia, Déméter, Aphrodite, Dionysos and Hadès, whose presence is variable.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the goddess of the love, the desire and the beauty. According to Hésiode, it was born from the seed of Ouranos thrown in the sea: the representations often show it emerging from the floods. Its preferred residence is Cyprus. It is often accompanied by her son Eros. Married to Héphaïstos, it has many adventures extraconjugales, as with Arès, god of the war, or with Adonis…

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Apollo

Apollo, wire of Zeus and Léto, is the god of the beauty, the reason, arts and the music. Driver of the Muses, it handles the quadrant as well as the arc. It can be shown without pity with those which defy it: the satyr Marsyas, skinned sharp, or Niobé, whose children are massacred. Under the name of Phœbus, he is the god of solar clearness.

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Ares

Ares, wire of Zeus and Héra, is the god of the war. Brutal and sanguinary, it délecte in the massacres. For this reason, the other gods hate it. Thus, it is often in competition with Athéna, another goddess of the war. Only Aphrodite testifies some affection to him.

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Artémis

Artémis, girl of Zeus and Léto, is the twin sister of Apollon, with which it divides many common features, like the arc. Goddess of hunting and wild nature, it saw surrounded by her troop of nymphs and her dogs. Its favorite animal is the hind. It is also a virgin goddess, who punishes hard those which make an attempt on its decency. Under the name of Séléné, it is also the goddess of lunar clearness.

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Athéna

Athéna, girl of Zeus and Mongrel, is the goddess of wisdom and the war. It left cranium of her father very armed by pushing a terrifying war cry. Preferred girl of Zeus it handles like him it the aegis and the lightning. It is the enemy natural one of Poséidon, god of the seas. It is also the protective one of Athens, to which it gives its name, and the adviser of hero like Ulysses. Its emblem is the owl.

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Déméter

Déméter is the girl of the Titan S Cronos and of Rhéa, which makes of it the sister of Zeus, Poséidon, Hadès, Héra and Hestia. She is the goddess of the fertility and the work of the ground. It is it which shows the men how to cultivate corn.

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Dionysos

Dionysos is the son of Zeus and Sémélé, a princess thebaine. It is the only god to have known a life of mortal before going up on Olympe. It is associated with the vegetation, and particularly the vine, which produces the wine and is responsible for intoxication and mystical fright. It is a god primarily wandering, traditionally accompanied by a noisy procession of Satyre S and Ménades.

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Hadès

Hadès is the Master of the Enfers. This attachment in the underground world returns its bond with Olympe apparently rather thin, but there remains one of the principal divinities, brother of Zeus and Poséidon, and husband of Perséphone, which spends six months of the year among the Olympian ones.

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Héphaïstos

Wire of Zeus and Héra, it is called “the Lame one”: one day that it took the defense of his mother in an argument with Zeus, this last throws it top of Olympe. God of fire and the volcanos, it often resides on the mount Ida where its forging mill is. It is thus him which forges the marvellous weapons of Achille, hero of the Trojan War. He can also carry out skilful inventions, as bronze thrones moving in the air. The popular tradition makes of it the husband of Aphrodite.

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Héra

Girl of Cronos and Rhéa, Héra is at the same time the sister and the wife of Zeus. She protects the marriage and the women. Its demonstrations of jealousy towards the other women and children of her Zeus husband are terrible.

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Hermes

Wire of Zeus and Maïa, Hermes is the god of ingeniousness and the trade (but also of the robbers). Messenger of the gods, it protects the travellers and guides the heroes. Its attributes are the Caducée, the Pétase (round hat) and the winged Sandales.

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Hestia

Sister of Zeus, of Héra, Hadès and Poséidon, Hestia is the goddess of the domestic hearth. She protects the families and the cities. Like Artémis or Athéna, it is a virgin goddess. Its attributes are the horn of plenty and crowned fire.

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Poséidon

Brother of Zeus and Hadès, Poséidon is the god of the seas and the storms. It is him which creates the horse and teaches art to go up to the mortals. He faces Athéna to receive sovereignty on Athens, but the goddess carries it because she offered to the Athenians an olive-tree, symbol of peace. Its attribute is the three-pronged fork.

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Zeus

Zeus, wire of Cronos and Rhéa, reign on the gods, armed with the the lightning and the aegis, manufactured for him by the Cyclops S. It is especially known for its many adventures and, consequently, for its very many offspring. Its attributes are the eagle and the lightning.

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