Olympian Greek gods and other Deities

greek gods  Meet the Olympian Gods · 1 Zeus Zeus was the God of the sky and lightning · 2 Poseidon Poseidon was also the son of Titans Cronus and Rhea, The Greek Gods and Goddesses: Key Points to Remember · Zeus, king of the gods and god of storms · Hera, wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage and childbirth, the

The other gods in the Pantheon were Zeus‟s children; three of them were also Hera‟s These were Ares, the god of war; Hephaestus, the smith-god, forger of The Greek gods ruled over every aspect of Hellenic existence—from war to love, from childbirth to the afterlife Commonly depicted in human form,

According to Herodotus it was the poets Homer and Hesiod, writing in the 8th century , who gave the Greeks their gods Herodotus, who lived Olympian Greek Goddesses · Aphrodite · Artemis – Goddess of Hunting · Athena · Demeter · Hera