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Goddess of love and beauty
Relationship to Zeus: daughter
3 Adjectives: beautiful, loving, promiscuos,
Symbol sea shell
Source of Information (Website URL):

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Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means "foam," and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and even occasionally presided over marriage. Although prostitutes considered Aphrodite their patron, her public cult was generally solemn and even austere.

Some scholars believe Aphrodite's worship came to Greece from the East; many of her attributes recall the ancient Middle Eastern goddesses Ishtar and Astarte. Although Homer called her "Cyprian" after the island chiefly famed for her worship, she was already Hellenized by the time of Homer, and, according to Homer, she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione, his consort at Dodona. In Book VIII of the Odyssey, Aphrodite was mismatched with Hephaestus, the lame smith god, and she consequently spent her time philandering with the handsome god of war, Ares (by whom she became the mother of Harmonia, the warrior twins Phobos and Deimos, and Eros, the god of love).

Of Aphrodite's mortal lovers, the most important were the Trojan shepherd Anchises, by whom she became the mother of Aeneas, and the handsome youth Adonis (in origin a Semitic nature deity and the consort of Ishtar-Astarte), who was killed by a boar while hunting and was lamented by women at the festival of Adonia. The cult of Adonis had underworld features, and Aphrodite was also connected with the dead at Delphi.

Aphrodite's main centres of worship were at Paphos and Amathus on Cyprus and on the island of Cythera, a Minoan colony, where in prehistoric times her cult probably originated. On the Greek mainland, Corinth was the chief centre of her worship. Her close association with Eros, the Graces (Charites), and the Horae (Seasons) emphasized her role as a promoter of fertility. She was honoured by the Roman poet Lucretius as Genetrix, the creative element in the world. Her epithets Urania (Heavenly Dweller) and Pandemos (Of All the People) were ironically taken by the philosopher Plato (in the Symposium) to refer to intellectual and common love; rather, the title Urania was honorific and applied to certain Asian deities, while Pandemos referred to her standing within the city-state. Among her symbols were the dove, pomegranate, swan, and myrtle.

Representations of Aphrodite in early Greek art are fully dressed and without distinguishing features that differentiate her from other goddesses. She first attained individuality at the hands of the great 5th-century-bce Greek sculptors. Perhaps the most famous of all statues of Aphrodite was carved by Praxiteles for the Cnidians. The first full-scale female nude, it later became the model for such Hellenistic masterpieces as the Venus de Milo (2nd century bce).

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Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means 'foam,' and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.

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God of music, poetry, art
Relationship to Zeus: Son
3 Adjectives optimistic, truthful, energetic
Symbol bow or lyre
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/summary/Apollo-Greek-mythology

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God of war
Relationship to Zeus: Son
3 Adjectives unfavored, rough, cruel
Symbol spear or war helmet
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ares-Greek-mythology

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God of Wilde animals, hunt
Relationship to Zeus: daughter
3 Adjectives favorite, warm, brave
Symbol deer
Source of Information (Website URL):https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiKsIjjm8aCAxVBkWoFHc3eBRsQFnoECBoQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftopic%2FArtemis-Greek-goddess%23%3A~%3Atext%3DArtemis%252C%2520in%2520Greek%2520religion%252C%2520the%2CArtemis%2520was%2520the%2520favourite%2520goddess.&usg=AOvVaw2pEQaSl5ABYVevvNK1Ug54&opi=89978449

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Goddess of war and wisdom
Relationship to Zeus: daughter
3 Adjectives powerful, heroic, intelligent
Symbol owl
Source of Information (Website URL):https://www.britannica.com/topic/Athena-Greek-mythology

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Goddess of harvest
Relationship to Zeus: sister
3 Adjectives loving, nurturing, kind
Symbol wheat
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiTxty7n8aCAxWBATQIHd4nARsQFnoECBIQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk%2Flearn-with-us%2Fthe-story-of-demeter-and-persephone%23%3A~%3Atext%3DDemeter%2520was%2520the%2520Ancient%2520Greek%2Clike%2520her%2520mum%252C%2520loved%2520nature.&usg=AOvVaw3vbd3PDbEAgfvN5xAbll_N&opi=89978449

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God of wine
Relationship to Zeus: son
3 Adjectives chaotic, violent, artistic
Symbol grapes
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Dionysus , Greek god of vegetation and fruitfulness, known especially as the god of wine and ecstasy. His Roman equivalent was Bacchus. He was known to the ancient Mycenaens, and he became one of the most important of all the Greek gods. A son of Zeus and (according to the standard tradition) Semele, he was brought up by the maenads, or bacchantes. The first creator of wine, he traveled widely teaching the winemaking art, with a following of satyrs, sileni ( see satyr and silenus), and nymphs. Festivities called Dionysia or (among the Romans) Bacchanalia were held in his honour; in their earlier years they were wild, ecstatic occasions, and they have often been the subject of artistic representation. Dionysus originally appeared as a bearded man, but later more often as a slim youth. His principal attribute was the thyrsus, a wand bound with vine leaves. The dithyramb, a choral hymn in his honour, is often seen as the basis of Western drama.

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Dionysus , Greek god of vegetation and fruitfulness, known especially as the god of wine and ecstasy.

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God of  the underworld
Relationship to Zeus: brother
3 Adjectives cruel, stern, aloof
Symbol skull on fire
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hades-Greek-mythology

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God of blacksmiths
Relationship to Zeus: son
3 Adjectives kind, hardworking, horrid
Symbol blacksmiths hammer and anvil
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hephaestus

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Goddess of marriage
Relationship to Zeus: sister-wife
3 Adjectives jealous, possessive, vengeful
Symbol pomegranate
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hera

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God of trade and travel
Relationship to Zeus: son
3 Adjectives troublemaker, their, traveler
Symbol caduceus
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hermes-Greek-mythology

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Goddess of  hearth
Relationship to Zeus: sister
3 Adjectives gentle, forgiving, mild
Symbol kettle torch
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hestia

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God of ocean and sea
Relationship to Zeus: brother
3 Adjectives brave, irritable, furious
Symbol trident
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Poseidon

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God of of Gods
Relationship to Zeus: himself
3 Adjectives Mature, wise, fair
Symbol lighting bolt
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zeus

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Trojan War | Myth, Characters, & Significance

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Reason for the War: caused by Paris son of Trojan king for going with Helen to Troy and Menelaus sought help and attacked Troy
Major Parties Involved: Achaean and Troy
The Trojan Horse Explained: a trick left behind by Agamemnon to make TRoy think they are sailing away but the horse was hiding a bunch of Greek warrior waiting for the Trojans to open the horse up and attack
Outcome of the War: The Trojans lost and the Greeks won
Great Heroes of the War: Agamemnon
Source of Information (Website URL): https://www.britannica.com/event/Trojan-War

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Trojan War | Myth, Characters, & Significance

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Trojan War, legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century BCE. The war stirred the imagination of ancient Greeks more than any other event in their history and was celebrated in the Iliad and the Odyss…