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Zeus was the king of all Greek gods and the ruler of Mount Olympus. He is the sky and thunder god in Greek religion. He was the child of Cronus and Rhea. He was married to his sister Hera with whom he fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. Zeus was notorious for his many erotic escapades.

Hera was the queen of all Greek gods and goddesses. She was the wife and sister of Zeus, and the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was the goddess of women and marriage in Greek mythology.

Poseidon was the Greek god of sea. He was the son of Cronus and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus and Hades. He was also associated with disasters like floods, droughts, and earthquakes.

Hades was one of the three sons of Cronus and Rhea. He is the Greek god of the underworld and the dead.

Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of beauty, love, desire, and fertility. She was born from Uranus’s severed genitals. She had many like lovers – most notably, Ares, Adonis, and Anchises.

Ares, the son of Zeus and Hera, was the Greek god of war and destruction. He was the most unpopular Olympian god. He was notorious for his affair with his brother Hephaestus’s wife Aphrodite.

Eros was the child of Aphrodite and Ares.

Hephaestus was the Greek god of craftsmen, artisans, and crafts. He is also associated with fire and volcanoes. He was the son of Zeus and Hera. His symbols are hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.

Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto. He was the Greek god of music, art, poetry, archery, knowledge, plague, and healing. He was a symbol of manly beauty. His most popular symbols are bow and arrow, and lyre.

Artemis is his twin sister. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She is the goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and childbirth. She was depicted as a huntress wielding a bow and arrow, accompanied by a deer.

Athena was the goddess of war and female counterpart of Ares. She was also associated with wisdom, skill, and strategy. She was known for her striking grey eyes. The city of Athens is named after her.

Her symbol was the olive tree and she is commonly depicted as accompanied by an owl.

Demeter was a Greek goddess who presided over the fertility of earth through grains and harvest.

Dionysus was often depicted as the youngest of the twelve Olympian gods and the only god born of a mortal mother. He was the Greek god of wine, parties, and ecstasy.

Hermes was the son of Zeus and Maia. He was the messenger of gods, and was depicted as quick and cunning. He was the Greek god of borders, communication, travel, and writing. He was often shown wearing winged sandals and a traveler’s hat.

Hestia was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Since she was the virgin goddess of hearth, home, and purity, she was given the first offering at every sacrifice in a household.

Vocabulary bank:

Ruler - noun a person who rules or commands; measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

religion - noun a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; an institution to express belief in a divine power

erotic - adj. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing; noun an erotic person

escapade - noun any carefree episode; a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

associate - adj. having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; noun any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; a person who joins with others in some activity; a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies; a person who is frequently in the company of another; verb make a logical or causal connection; bring or come into association or action; keep company with; hang out with

disaster - noun an act that has disastrous consequences; an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune

flood - noun a large flow; the act of flooding; filling to overflowing; light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography; the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; an overwhelming number or amount; the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); verb cover with liquid, usually water; become filled to overflowing; supply with an excess of; fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

drought - noun a shortage of rainfall; a prolonged shortage

earthquake - noun shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity; a disturbance that is extremely disruptive

underworld - noun the criminal class; (religion) the world of the dead

desire - noun an inclination to want things; the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state; something that is desired; verb feel or have a desire for; want strongly; express a desire for; expect and wish

fertility - noun the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring; the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

genital - adj. of or relating to the external sex organs

destruction - noun the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists; an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something; a final state

notorious - adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation

affair - noun a vaguely specified social event; a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship; a vaguely specified concern

craftsman - noun a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft; a creator of great skill in the manual arts; a professional whose work is consistently of high quality

artisan - noun a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

craft - noun a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception; skill in an occupation or trade; people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; the skilled practice of a practical occupation; verb make by hand and with much skill

volcano - noun a mountain formed by volcanic material; a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

symbol - noun something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

anvil - noun a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering; the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes

poetry - noun literature in metrical form; any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

archery - noun the sport of shooting arrows with a bow

plague - noun an annoyance; any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God); any epidemic disease with a high death rate; a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal; a swarm of insects that attack plants; verb annoy continually or chronically; cause to suffer a blight

manly - adj. possessing qualities befitting a man; characteristic of a man; adv. in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man

lyre - noun a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment

twin - adj. being two identical; very similar; noun a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho; either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy; a duplicate copy; (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini; verb give birth to twins; grow as twins; duplicate or match; bring two objects, ideas, or people together

wilderness - noun a bewildering profusion; a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War; (politics) a state of disfavor

childbirth - noun the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child

depict - verb give a description of; show in, or as in, a picture; make a portrait of

wield - verb handle effectively; have and exercise

accompany - verb go or travel along with; perform an accompaniment to; be associated with; be a companion to somebody

counterpart - noun a duplicate copy; a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another

wisdom - noun the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight; the quality of being prudent and sensible; ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight; accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment; an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

strategy - noun the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war; an elaborate and systematic plan of action

striking - adj. having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; noun the act of contacting one thing with another; the physical coming together of two or more things

common - adj. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; commonly encountered; being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; of or associated with the great masses of people; to be expected; standard; common to or shared by two or more parties; lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; of low or inferior quality or value; noun a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

harvest - noun the season for gathering crops; the gathering of a ripened crop; the consequence of an effort or activity; the yield from plants in a single growing season; verb remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation; gather, as of natural products

mortal - adj. unrelenting and deadly; subject to death; causing or capable of causing death; involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; noun a human being

ecstasy - noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; a state of elated bliss; street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

messenger - noun a person who carries a message

cunning - adj. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; showing inventiveness and skill; marked by skill in deception; noun crafty artfulness (especially in deception); shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

border - noun a strip forming the outer edge of something; a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge; a line that indicates a boundary; the boundary of a surface; the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary; verb lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; provide with a border or edge; extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; enclose in or as if in a frame; form the boundary of; be contiguous to

winged - adj. very fast; as if with wings; having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind

sandal - noun a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot

virgin - adj. being used or worked for the first time; in a state of sexual virginity; noun a person who has never had sex; the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22; (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo

hearth - noun home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built

purity - noun the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil; being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material; a woman's virtue or chastity

sacrifice - noun (sacrifice) an out that advances the base runners; the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity; personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective); a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.; verb kill or destroy; make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals; endure the loss of; sell at a loss