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Gods, Heroes, and Wars, Oh My!

The myths and stories of the ancient Greeks are some of the oldest and most well-known in the world. Greek mythology touches on a myriad of themes ranging from the world's conception to outlandish creatures to legendary wars. In this article, I list and discuss what I consider the 10 most impactful stories from ancient Greek mythology. Each myth listed here is discussed in more detail in the sections below.

The 10 Best Ancient Greek Myths and Legends

1. Heracles and the 12 Labors

2. Prometheus and the Theft of Fire

3. Narcissus and Echo

4. Sisyphus' Punishment

5. Perseus' Slaying of Medusa

6. Orpheus' Attempted Rescue of Eurydice

7. Theseus and the Labyrinth

8. Icarus' Flight

9. Oedipus and the Oracle's Prophecy

10. The Trojan Horse

1. Heracles (Hercules) and the Twelve Labors

Heracles, the greatest of the divine heroes in Greek mythology (known in the west by his Roman name Hercules) was the son of the god Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. There are many stories of Heracles' strength and heroism, but the most well-known centers around the twelve labors he was forced to perform. Driven mad by the goddess Hera, Heracles slew his own children, and to atone for his crimes, he had to perform 10 tasks or labors set out by his archenemy Eurystheus, who eventually raised the number to 12.

The Twelve Labors of Heracles

1. Slay the Nemean Lion: With his bare hands, Heracles killed a lion that was attacking the city of Nemea, wearing its fur as a cloak afterward to demonstrate his victory.

2. Slay the Hydra: The Hydra-a fire-breathing monster with the body of a lion and nine serpent heads-was considered unbeatable. Heracles, along with Iolaus, was able to kill it, but it was not easy. Every time they cut off a head, two more would grow in its place. Eventually, Heracles and Iolaus cut off all of the heads and sealed the wounds with fire, preventing the Hydra from regenerating.

3. Capture the Golden/Ceryneian Hind: Instead of killing the hind, Heracles had to capture it alive and present it to Eurystheus. He chased it for over a year, and upon catching it, was told to hand it over to the king. When he released his hold on it, however, it bounded back from whence it came.

4. Capture the Erymanthian Boar: A wild and powerful boar was on the loose and had to be captured and brought to Mycenae. Heracles successfully captured the beast after listening to advice from Chiron.

5. Clean the Augean Stables in One Day: King Augeas had a stable of divine cattle whose feces were poisonous and voluminous. By rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus, Heracles was able to accomplish the seemingly impossible feat of cleaning them in a single day.

6. Slay the Stymphalian Birds: Sacred to Ares, the Stymphalian birds had beaks of bronze and were incredibly violent, overrunning Arcadia. Since the birds had migrated into a swamp, Heracles had to get creative, utilizing a rattle given to him by Hephaestus to scare the birds into the air and then shoot them down with his bow and arrow.

7. Capture the Cretan Bull: A wild bull was causing havoc on the island of Crete, and Heracles was tasked with capturing the beast. With his bare hands, he wrestled the bull to the ground, successfully capturing it and sending it back to the mainland.

8. Steal the Mares of Diomedes: King Diomedes of Thrace had trained his horses to eat human flesh, and Heracles was tasked with bringing these mares back to King Eurystheus. Heracles headed to Thrace and stayed awake all night until Diomedes fell asleep before cutting the bronze manger the horses were tied to. Heracles chased the mares to the end of the peninsula before digging a ditch around them, creating an island. Eventually, Diomedes appeared, and Heracles slew him, feeding him to the mares and calming them down so that he could sew their mouths shut and take them back to Eurystheus.

9. Obtain the Belt of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons: Next, Heracles was tasked with retrieving the belt of the queen of the Amazons, a fearsome group of warrior women. Hippolyta was impressed with Heracles' exploits and was ready to give him the belt. However, Hera, who despised Heracles, had appeared before the Amazons, saying that someone wanted to steal the queen away. The Amazons confronted Heracles, who then believed this had all been a plot by Hippolyta to kill him. Heracles killed the Amazons, including Hippolyta, and took the belt.

10. Obtain the Cattle of the Monster Geryon: On Eurystheus' orders, Heracles traveled west to steal cattle from the massive giant, Geryon. The giant attacked Heracles but was no match for his archery skills. One of Heracles' arrows pierced Geryon's forehead. Heracles obtained the cattle, and despite interference from Hera, was able to take them back to Eurystheus.

11. Steal the apples of the Hesperides: Eurystheus claimed that slaying the Hydra (because Iolaus helped him) and cleaning the Augean stables (because the rivers did the work) did not count and gave Heracles two more labors. Heracles was tasked with stealing the apples of the evening nymphs (the Hesperides). After finding the garden of the Hesperides, Heracles found the god Atlas there holding up the heavens. Since Heracles could not reach the apples himself, he asked Atlas to grab them while he held up the heavens. Atlas agreed and got the apples. However, he then decided that he did not want to return to holding up the heavens. Heracles tricked Atlas into giving him the apples, saying that he would remain to hold up the heavens but first he needed Atlas to hold the heavens while he adjusted his cloak.

12. Capture and Bring Back Cerberus: For the final labor, Heracles was tasked with bringing back the three-headed dog, Cerberus, who guarded the gates of the underworld. Heracles asked Hades if he could bring Cerberus with him, and the god agreed that he could, so long as he was able to subdue the beast with only his bare hands. Heracles was successful and slung Cerberus on his back before returning from the underworld to present the beast to Eurystheus.

2. Prometheus and the Theft of Fire

Prometheus was one of the original Titans who was overthrown by Zeus and the other Olympians. He was also one of the few to survive being banished to Tartarus.

Prometheus constantly came into conflict with Zeus, and after Zeus withdrew the use of fire from mortals, Prometheus famously stole the fire and gave it back to humanity. As punishment for his transgressions, he was chained to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains for eternity.

Every day, an eagle (the symbol of Zeus) would fly to the rock and eat Prometheus' liver. Since he was immortal, his liver would regenerate, only for the cycle to repeat the next day. Eventually, Heracles freed Prometheus from his prison.

3. Narcissus and Echo

Narcissus was known far and wide for his amazing beauty, and one day in the forest, the mountain nymph Echo saw him and fell in love with him. Narcissus felt that someone was following him and called out to Echo, shouting "who's there?" again and again, only to have Echo repeat his words. Eventually, Echo showed herself and tried to embrace Narcissus, only to have him reject her and send her away, leaving her heartbroken.

This angered Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, who then lead Narcissus to a pool deep in the woods where he gazed upon a reflection of himself as a young man. He did not realize it was his own reflection, and he fell in love with it, unable to leave.

Fun Fact

The personality trait of narcissism, which is defined by Oxford Dictionary as "excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance," is named after Narcissus because of his legendary vanity.

4. Sisyphus

Sisyphus was the king of Ephyra, and he was known for his massive ego and cunning. He defied the gods on many occasions, cheating death through means of trickery and deceit.

This angered Zeus, who forced Sisyphus to roll an immense boulder up a hill. Just when the boulder got to the top of the hill, it would roll back down to the bottom, consigning Sisyphus to an eternity of unending frustration. This punishment was devised by Zeus as retribution for Sisyphus' hubris against the gods in thinking that he, a mortal, could be more clever and cunning than they.

5. Perseus' Slaying of Medusa

There are many great myths about the legendary hero Perseus, but the most famous would have to be the slaying of Medusa.

King Polydectes of Seriphos wished to marry Danae, Perseus' mother. Perseus did not approve of this, and it caused a rift between the two men, so Polydectes plotted to send Perseus away in disgrace. At a lavish dinner party, Polydectes asked every guest to bring a horse as a gift, and since Perseus did not have any gift to give, he asked Polydectes what he wanted. In an attempt to do away with Perseus for good, Polydectes asked him to bring him the head of Medusa, whose gaze turned people to stone.

After receiving a polished shield, a knapsack for Medusa's head, an adamantine sword, and Hade's helm of darkness (giving him invisibility), Perseus headed out to slay Medusa. Using his polished shield to view Medusa's reflection as he approached, he was able to safely cut off her head and put it in the knapsack.

Fun Fact

Famous designer Giani Versace used a likeness of Medusa's head as a symbol for his popular high-end fashion brand.

6. Orpheus' Attempted Rescue of Eurydice

Orpheus was known as a great musician, and it was said that trees would bend to listen to his music. Eventually, he fell in love with and married Eurydice, but on their wedding day, she was bitten by a snake and died.

Orpheus was so sad that he only played mournful music, which was itself so sad that it touched the Gods, who felt sorry that he had lost his wife. Eventually, Hermes arrived and advised Orpheus to travel to the underworld and convince Hades and Persephone to let Eurydice come back to the world of the living.

Through his music, Orpheus was able to charm Hades and Persephone to allow Eurydice to come back with him. However, they gave him a stipulation-Orpheus would have to walk ahead of Eurydice as they left the underworld, and he could not turn and look back at her until they had returned to the world of the living. Sadly, Orpheus could not overcome his anxiety, and he turned to look back at Eurydice just as he cleared the doorway to the underworld, causing Eurydice to fade away instantly.

7. Theseus and the Labyrinth

Theseus was a legendary hero and one of the founders of Athens. One of the most famous stories of his heroism was his slaying of the Minotaur and escape from the labyrinth.

Pasiphae, the wife of King Minos of Crete, had an illegitimate son with a Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull. Instead of killing the monster, King Minos put him in a maze called a labyrinth in which he would also imprison his enemies, who were typically unable to escape and would become food for the Minotaur. The Athenians were forced to send seven men every year as a sacrifice to the Minotaur, which greatly distressed Theseus.

Eventually, against his father's wishes, Theseus went to Crete to slay the Minotaur and end the cycle of violence. There, he met Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, who fell in love with him and decided to help him. She gave him a long thread and told him to unravel it in the labyrinth so that he could find his way out after killing the Minotaur. Theseus was able to slay the beast, escape the labyrinth, and return to Athens with Ariadne.

Fun Fact

Labyrinths styled after King Minos' legendary maze have been used for worship in certain Christian churches since about 1,000 CE.

8. Icarus' Flight

Daedalus, who had constructed the labyrinth, was imprisoned in a tower on Crete with his son Icarus by King Minos so that he would not divulge the true nature of the Minotaur. Eventually, Daedalus devised a brilliant plan to escape the tower. He would collect feathers and use wax to glue them together to create wings. Eventually, he made two sets of wings-one for himself and one for Icarus. Daedalus warned his son to not fly too close to the sun, lest the wax melts from the heat and cause the wings to fall apart.

Icarus did not listen to his father, as he was too consumed by the wonder of being able to fly. He flew too close to the sun, his wings broke apart, and he plummeted into the sea.

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Ancient Greece produced some of the wildest and most memorable folklore known to humanity. Famous films like "Hercules" and "Troy" derive their storylines from some of these aged legends. Here are my picks for the 10 best stories from ancient Greek mythology.

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This website is a good option for understanding mythological games for that time period. It explains the type of ancient games that were very popular at the time. It also mentions how the Olympic Games were a cultural highlight of the Ancient Greek times for a while. It provides readers with the history and events within the games, which was a huge part in Greek mythology.

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The oldest myth which concerns the beginning of the Olympic Games is that of Idaios Daktylos Herakles. According to other myths, Zeus, the father of humanity, fought and defeated Cronus in a struggle for the throne of the gods. Finally, the well-known demigod Herakles is mentioned. He staged games in Olympia in honour of Zeus, because the latter had helped him conquer Elis when he went to war against Augeas.

Zeus was considered the most important of all the Olympic gods. He was originally worshipped as a god of meteorological change. He quickly became the god of fertility however, and was worshipped as Zeus the "infernal" (hthonios) or "farmer" (georgos). As Zeus the possessor (ktisios), he offered a good harvest; as Zeus the father (pater), he protected the family and all who lived nearby.
Hera
Hera was the sister and wife of Zeus and was worshipped all over Greece, but especially in the region of Argos. She was thus also called "Argeia". The epithets "perfect", "balanced" and "wedded" were used to describe her because she was considered the protector of marriage and the marital bond. Homer depicts Hera in her dual capacity as the most important female deity, but also the official spouse of the father of the gods.
Athena
The ancient Greeks believed that Athena was miraculously born out of the head of Zeus. She was first worshipped in the palaces of the Achaean rulers in the Pre-Hellenistic period. In Homer's work, she is depicted as a warrior goddess wearing full armour from the prehistoric era. She was as important as Aris, the god of war, and favoured the prudent outcome of confrontations.
Apollo
Apollo was the god of moral order and music, but his main capacity was to protect the art of divination. This is revealed by the plethora of oracles in various regions of Greece, the most famous being the oracle of Delphi, in Fokis. Apollo is also seen as a pastoral god, protecting his flock from the wolves. He was worshipped by the farmers as the god of the harvest. From Antiquity onwards, he had the reputation of a god of healing.

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This page gives a small look into the minds of ancient Greeks. This pagd helps readers understand the Greeks and their motives. It give readers look into what drove Greeks  to do some of the strange and unique events in their culture. Understanding their gods can help one understand their culture and actions.

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This website includes the origin of Greek Mythology. It also contains the different figures. It explains the background of it. It is very helpful in the true understanding of Greek Mythology.

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"Myth has two main functions," the poet and scholar Robert Graves wrote in 1955. "The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'...The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs." In ancient Greece, stories about gods and goddesses and heroes and monsters were an important part of everyday life. They explained everything from religious rituals to the weather, and they gave meaning to the world people saw around them.

Greek Mythology: Sources

In Greek mythology, there is no single original text like the Christian Bible or the Hindu Vedas that introduces all of the myths' characters and stories. Instead, the earliest Greek myths were part of an oral tradition that began in the Bronze Age, and their plots and themes unfolded gradually in the written literature of the archaic and classical periods. The poet Homer's 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. They do not, however, bother to introduce the gods and goddesses who are their main characters, since readers and listeners would already have been familiar with them.

Did you know? Many consumer products get their names from Greek mythology. Nike sneakers are the namesake of the goddess of victory, for example, and the website Amazon.com is named after the race of mythical female warriors. Many high school, college and professional sports teams (Titans, Spartans and Trojans, for instance) also get their names from mythological sources.

Around 700 BC, the poet Hesiod's Theogony offered the first written cosmogony, or origin story, of Greek mythology. The Theogony tells the story of the universe's journey from nothingness (Chaos, a primeval void) to being, and details an elaborate family tree of elements, gods and goddesses who evolved from Chaos and descended from Gaia (Earth), Ouranos (Sky), Pontos (Sea) and Tartaros (the Underworld).

Later Greek writers and artists used and elaborated upon these sources in their own work. For instance, mythological figures and events appear in the 5th-century plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and the lyric poems of Pindar. Writers such as the 2nd-century BC Greek mythographer Apollodorus of Athens and the 1st-century BC Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus compiled the ancient myths and legends for contemporary audiences.

Greek Mythology: The Olympians

At the center of Greek mythology is the pantheon of deities who were said to live on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. From their perch, they ruled every aspect of human life. Olympian gods and goddesses looked like men and women (though they could change themselves into animals and other things) and were-as many myths recounted-vulnerable to human foibles and passions.

The twelve main Olympians are:

Zeus (Jupiter, in Roman mythology): the king of all the gods (and father to many) and god of weather, law and fate

Hera (Juno): the queen of the gods and goddess of women and marriage

Aphrodite (Venus): goddess of beauty and love

Apollo (Apollo): god of prophesy, music and poetry and knowledge

Ares (Mars): god of war

Artemis (Diana): goddess of hunting, animals and childbirth

Athena (Minerva): goddess of wisdom and defense

Demeter (Ceres): goddess of agriculture and grain

Dionysos (Bacchus): god of wine, pleasure and festivity

Hephaistos (Vulcan): god of fire, metalworking and sculpture

Hermes (Mercury): god of travel, hospitality and trade and Zeus's personal messenger

Poseidon (Neptune): god of the sea

Other gods and goddesses sometimes included in the roster of Olympians are:

Hades (Pluto): god of the underworld

Hestia (Vesta): goddess of home and family

Eros (Cupid): god of sex and minion to Aphrodite

Greek Mythology: Heroes and Monsters

Greek mythology does not just tell the stories of gods and goddesses, however. Human heroes-such as Heracles, the adventurer who performed 12 impossible labors for King Eurystheus (and was subsequently worshipped as a god for his accomplishment); Pandora, the first woman, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind; Pygmalion, the king who fell in love with an ivory statue; Arachne, the weaver who was turned into a spider for her arrogance; handsome Trojan prince Ganymede who became the cupbearer for the gods; Midas, the king with the golden touch; and Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection-are just as significant. Monsters and "hybrids" (human-animal forms) also feature prominently in the tales: the winged horse Pegasus, the horse-man Centaur, the lion-woman Sphinx and the bird-woman Harpies, the one-eyed giant Cyclops, automatons (metal creatures given life by Hephaistos), manticores and unicorns, Gorgons, pygmies, minotaurs, satyrs and dragons of all sorts. Many of these creatures have become almost as well known as the gods, goddesses and heroes who share their stories.

Greek Mythology: Past and Present

The characters, stories, themes and lessons of Greek mythology have shaped art and literature for thousands of years. They appear in Renaissance paintings such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Raphael's Triumph of Galatea and writings like Dante's Inferno; Romantic poetry and libretti; and scores of more recent novels, plays and films.

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Greece: Home of olives, democracy, the Olympics -- and a really awesome set of deities. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Greek Gods. Special thanks to our users Ira Sutton, Pogiboyee, AMP Storm, Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Pérez and talkingwithtrevor for submitting the idea on our Suggest Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest!

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The most complete version of the Greek creation myths that survives is a poem called the Theogony ("Birth of the Gods") by a poet named Hesiod, who lived in the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. (that is, the low-numbered 700s or high-numbered 600s BC). Not much is known about Hesiod except that his dad lost all of his money when his ship sank, and his brother tried to rob him of his inheritance. These two facts may account for the tone of what you're about to read.

Remember that this is just one version of the Greek creation myth - a particularly good and complete one, but by no means the only one. And fans of the Hercules and Xena TV series will certainly recognize many of the names.

In the beginning, there was Chaos. Darkness covered the earth. Hesiod's creation story doesn't involve something being created from nothing; there was stuff (Chaos), but it was shapeless, mixed-up, and dark.

The first generation of gods

After Chaos, five divinities came into being (it isn't clear how) and began giving shape to things, separating the muddle into specific places and times, and to set the stage for more creation. The divinities were: Gaia (the mother Earth), Tartarus (the underworld), Erebus (the darkness that covers the underworld), Night (darkness that covers Earth), and Eros (Love).

Night and Erebus got together and had some children: Hemera (Day), Phôs (Light), and (a cheery set of quintuplets) Doom, Death, Misery, Deceit, and Discord.

Discord later gave birth to the following other forces: Murder, Slaughter, Battle, and Crime.

The earth is born

Earth held the Sky up above itself. Or rather "herself," because Earth, called "Gaia," was female, and the Sky, called "Uranus" (Earth's child), was male.

Gaia and Uranus had a bunch of kids. First, they had a bunch of monsters; then, perhaps having worked out the kinks in the system, they produced some gods known as Titans.

Our children are real monsters!

Gaia and Uranus's first three kids were monsters with 100 hands (Hekatoncheires) and 50 heads each, which must have been a bit surprising to their parents.

The next three were the Cyclopes, giants with one eye in the middle of their foreheads. They were as big as mountains and immensely strong. The three Cyclopes were

Steropes ("Lightning Flash")

Eventually, these three would get jobs manufacturing the thunderbolts that Zeus (their nephew who hadn't been born yet) used to blow folks up.

The word Cyclops means round-eyed or wheel-eyed. The first part of the word is in the modern words "cycle," "bicycle," and "encyclopedia"; the second part gives us words such as "optical," "optician," and "myopia" (nearsightedness). If you have only one of these round-eyed monsters, you have a "Cyclops," which rhymes with "high-tops"; if you have a bunch of them, you have "Cyclopes," which rhymes with "high-top, please."

Meet the Titans, the second generation of gods

Uranus and Gaia had many more children, but their most famous batch of kids was the Titans. They were big and strong, too. Uranus hated all these kids, and as each one was born, he shoved it back up into Gaia. Gaia didn't like that. Nevertheless, the Titans, their six sons and six daughters, were

Thetis: Sister and wife of Oceanus.

Theia: Sister and wife of Hyperion.

Themis: An earth goddess.

Mnemosyne: Goddess of Memory.

Iapetus: No notable responsibilities.

Coeus: No notable responsibilities.

Phoebe: No notable responsibilities.

Crius: No notable responsibilities.

Cronos : The brightest, strongest, and cleverest of all.

These Titans were the generation before the better-known Olympian gods - Zeus and others.

Gaia's sweet revenge and the prodigal son

Gaia was understandably mad about Uranus shoving her kids back up into her body (they were still alive in there), so she asked her other children, the Cyclopes and the Titans, to help her out. One of her sons, the Titan Cronos, agreed to attack his dad for her. Gaia made a huge sickle out of flint and gave it to Cronos with some pretty explicit instructions.

When Uranus came to have sex with Gaia, he found a nasty surprise waiting for him. Cronos (who was, remember, inside Gaia's womb) reached out with the sickle and attacked Uranus, or specifically, that part of Uranus that was nearest at hand. Cronos cut off his father's genitals and threw them into the sea. From the blood were born several more monsters: the Giants and the Furies.

As Uranus's genitals fell into the water, the sea foamed up like certain headache remedies, and the foam produced the goddess Aphrodite. Her name means "gift of the sea foam." She floated around in the sea for a while, and then came to shore on the island of Cyprus, which is why she is often called Cyprian Aphrodite.

The third generation of gods: The Olympians

The third generation of Greek gods were known as the Olympian Gods, because they eventually made their home on Mount Olympus.

After Cronos castrated his father Uranus, Cronos set himself up as king of Heaven. He married his sister, the Titan Rhea, and they had a bunch of kids.

Like his father, Cronos didn't want all of his kids to live. He had heard a prophecy that one of his sons would dethrone him and he had no intention of allowing that to happen. So every time Rhea had a baby, he swallowed it whole.

Rhea, like Gaia, wasn't at all happy to see all of her children eaten by their father. So she did what you would expect a young bride to do: She asked her parents, Gaia and Uranus, for help. Gaia and Uranus had some experience in these matters (and apparently had gotten over any lasting bitterness from their own marital difficulties), so they came up with a plan.

When Rhea had her sixth child, Zeus, she smuggled him away to the island of Crete and gave her husband a baby-sized rock wrapped in a blanket instead. Cronos obviously didn't know much about babies, because he swallowed the stone and never gave it another thought.

First among equals: Zeus

After his mother smuggled him away, Zeus grew up safely on Crete. The Nymphs gave him milk from a magical goat named Amalthea, and the Curetes, minor gods who had the job of protecting him, banged their spears against their swords every time baby Zeus cried, and that way Cronos never heard him.

Zeus had no particular reason to love his dad, so he got together with his grandmother Gaia and they made Cronos throw up the children he had eaten. The first thing Cronos tossed was the stone Rhea had given him instead of Zeus, so he knew he had been tricked. The other five babies had grown up in his belly, and they emerged as full-fledged deities. These deities were the Olympians:

Hera: Goddess of marriage.

Hades: God of the underworld.

Hestia: Goddess of the hearth.

Demeter: Goddess of crops and the harvest.

During his fight with his father, Zeus cut off Cronos's genitals - like father like son! - which dropped into the sea just as Uranus's privates had.

Dirty Harry feels lucky: Zeus punishes the Titans and battles the Giants

After castrating his father Cronos, Zeus bound the Titans in Tartarus, the underworld. He sentenced Atlas, Prometheus's brother, to hold up the sky on his shoulders.

Zeus gets his thunderbolts

Gaia had one more baby, the monster Typhon. Typhon had 100 heads and was covered with flame. But Zeus by now had taken control of thunder and lightning, and shot down Typhon with his thunderbolt. Typhon's hopes of terrorizing the universe were ended, but he still needed a job, so he moved to Sicily, where he supplied the volcanic magma for Mount Etna.

Cool thrones for everybody!

After this, the Giants (the ones born when Cronos cut off Uranus's testicles) rebelled against Zeus's control. Zeus and his siblings, aided by the hero Heracles (a.k.a. Hercules, a.k.a. Kevin Sorbo), beat the Giants and sent them down to the underworld. Now, Zeus and his brothers and sisters were the ultimate rulers of heaven and earth.

Zeus really showed his stuff in the way he escaped the fate of his father, Cronos, and his grandfather, Uranus. After the dust had settled from the Battle with the Titans, Zeus married Metis (a goddess who was the personification of "Cunning Intelligence").

Just like his father before him, Zeus received a prophecy that his wife would bear a child who would become King of the Gods. Instead of waiting for the child to be born, Zeus was proactive, and swallowed his wife. The child was born anyway, but it came out of Zeus's head - thus avoiding the important detail of the prophecy that Metis would bear the child. The baby was Athena, the wise goddess, who, although she was Daddy's girl, had a lot of her mom's cunning intelligence in her.

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Understanding the Origin of the Greek Gods - dummies

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The most complete version of the Greek creation myths that survives is a poem called the Theogony ("Birth of the Gods") by a poet named Hesiod, who lived in the late eighth or early seventh century B.C. (that is, the low-numbered 700s or high-numbered 600s BC).

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https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/greek-gods.html

This website has the  godesses and gods listed as the type/element they control. It has the sun gods in one place and the  sky gods in one place.   It also contains basic information about the gods and godesses.  If one wants to learn about Artemis, then they only have to click her name. Same goes for any of the other gods and godesses.

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https://owlcation.com/humanities/Why-Ancient-Greek-Mythology-is-Still-Relevant-Today

Greek mythology might seem like a thing of the past, but it is definitely not. This site shows and explains how society is influenced by Greek myths. One such example is Nike. They are named after the Greek goddess of victory. Another one is the Starbucks logo. The site states that the logo is supposed to represent the irresistibility of the coffee, like the alluring siren creature. The website also details the backstories, relevance, and other interesting topics in Greek mythology.

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-mythology
This website is good because it explains what greek mythology is in detail. It also explains the main greek story’s in great detail. For example it tell about, “Llaid, Obyssey, Theogony, and Works and Days

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This video is good for understanding greek mythology because it explains many things in very deep detail. For example it explains the families and who everyone is. It shows how each and every person came to be and their stories along with it.

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A Beginners Guide to Greek Mythology - The Story of Creation

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https://www.teachervision.com/heroes-role-models/top-10-heroes-greek-mythology
There are many heroes in Greek Mythology, but the website I chose shows you the top 10. As they list these Greek heroes, it also gives a brief backstory on them telling you about what they did. It gives about a paragraph for each story with an acceptional amount of information.

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https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/myths/
This is the best site because it tells the story or the background of each god or goddess. You can also view each person individually to learn more about them. This site tells many important things about each god and goddess. You can view the relationships between them and learn a alot of things about them. This website helps to understand Greek Mythology and to understand the story’s behind the gods and goddesses

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https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/
This site really helps people understand a little known topic. It gives information on the first Greek myth and how is can be used today. And it also talks about the different gods and who they are.

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https://www.theoi.com/
This is the best in my opinion because it has tiles that link to the different points of interest you may have. This website talks about the titans who played a huge role in Greek mythology. Personally, I believe this website is just cool and interesting too.

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https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/greek-mythology

This is the best website because it tells of many types of different Greek Mythology. History mentions gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters. It talks about the main twelve Olympians and a few of the monster and heroes. There is also sources of where Greek Mythology came from. The website gives a slight background of how Greek Mythology began. History.com has given the best background on Greek Mythology.

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https://www.greekmythology.com/
There are many Greek gods and goddesses and this website shows all of them. It gives a brief summary about the most popular gods and goddesses with the stories behind them. On the website there is an option to click on the names of many gods, titans, and Olympian gods. It gives a lot of information, so therefore it is a good cite to visit when looking into Greek mythology.