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Hephaestus
God of fire, metalworking, and craftsmanship.
Aphrodite
Goddess of love, beauty, desire, and fertility.
Hades
God of the underworld, the dead, and riches.
Persephone
Goddess of the underworld, spring growth, and Queen of the Dead.
Athena
Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, and handicrafts.
Demeter
Goddess of the harvest, grain, fertility, and the seasons.
Prometheus
Titan god of fire, creator of humanity, and its greatest benefactor who stole fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to mankind.
Heracles
A divine hero, son of Zeus, known for his strength and his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Odyssey
An epic poem attributed to Homer, describing the long voyage home of the hero Odysseus after the fall of Troy.
Hera
Queen of the gods, goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and family.
Hestia
Goddess of the hearth, home, and domesticity.
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece.
Dionysus
God of wine, pleasure, vegetation, festivity, and madness.
The Trojan War
A legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, caused by the abduction of Helen by Paris and resulting in the destruction of Troy.
Hermes
God of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel.
Zeus
King of the gods, god of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, and justice.
Poseidon
God of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses.
Apollo
God of the sun, light, music, poetry, healing, and prophecy.
Ares
God of war, bloodshed, and violence.
Artemis
Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild animals, the moon, and chastity.
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