The Twelve Olympians, also known as the Dodekatheon were the principal deities of the Greek pantheon, residing atop a mythical Mount Olympus. The Olympians gained their supremacy in a war of gods in which Zeus led his siblings to victory over the Titans.
The Olympians:Zeus: King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus; god of the sky, and thunder. Youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Poseidon and Hades.—- OPEN
Hera: Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage and family. Youngest daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Wife and sister of Zeus. Being the goddess of marriage, she frequently tried to get revenge on Zeus’ lovers and their children. —— OPEN
Poseidon: God of the seas, earthquakes, and tidal wave. Middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. —- Finnick Odair
Demeter: Goddess of fertility, agriculture, nature, and the seasons. Middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea. —- OPEN
Athena: Goddess of wisdom, handicrafts, defense, and strategic warfare. Daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Metis, she rose from her father’s head fully grown and in full battle armor after he swallowed her mother. — Stephanie Rogers
Apollo: God of light, knowledge, healing, plague and darkness, the arts, music, poetry, prophecy, archery, the sun, manly youth, and beauty. Son of Zeus and Leto. Twin brother of Artemis. —- Dean Winchester
Artemis: Goddess of the hunt, virginity, childbirth, archery, the moon, and all animals. Daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo. —- Katniss Everdeen
Ares: God of war, violence, and bloodshed. Son of Zeus and Hera, all the other gods (except Aphrodite) despised him. —- Jason Santiago
Aphrodite: Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. Daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Dione, or perhaps born from the sea foam after Uranus’ semen dripped into the sea after being castrated by his youngest son, Cronus, who then threw his father’s genitals into the sea. Married to Hephaestus, although she had many adulterous affairs, most notably with Ares. —- Camille Bellecourt
Hephaestus: Master blacksmith and craftsman of the gods; god of fire and the forge. Son of Hera, either by Zeus or alone. Married to Aphrodite, though unlike most divine husbands, he was rarely ever licentious. —- Gale Hawthorne
Hermes: Messenger of the gods; god of commerce, thieves, and games. Son of Zeus and the nymph Maia. The second-youngest Olympian, just older than Dionysus. —- Peeta Mellark
Hestia: Goddess of the hearth and of the right ordering of domesticity and the family; she was born into the first Olympian generation and was one of the original twelve Olympians, until she gave her throne to Dionysus in order to keep the peace, making her the most generous and gentlest of the gods. She is the first child of Cronus and Rhea, eldest sister of Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus. Also the eldest of the Olympians. —- OPEN
Dionysus: God of wine, celebrations, and ecstasy. Patron god of the art of theatre. Son of Zeus and the mortal Theban princess Semele. Married to the Cretan princess Ariadne. The youngest Olympian, as well as the only one to have a mortal mother. —-OPEN
Also Important:Hades: God of the Underworld, dead and the riches under the Earth; he was born into the first Olympian generation, the elder brother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, and Demeter, and younger brother of Hestia, but as he lives in the Underworld rather than on Mount Olympus. —- Eric
Persephone: Queen of the Underworld and a daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Also goddess of spring time. She became the consort of Hades, the god of the underworld, when he kidnapped her. Demeter, driven to distraction by the disappearance of her daughter, neglected the earth so that nothing would grow. Zeus eventually ordered Hades to allow Persephone to leave the underworld and rejoin her mother. Hades did this, but because Persephone had eaten six of the twelve pomegranate seeds in the underworld when Hades first kidnapped her, she had to spend six months in the underworld each year. This created the seasons when for six months everything grows and flourishes then for the other six months everything wilts and dies. —- OPEN
Ariadne: daughter of Minos, King of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë.She is mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus. Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made as part of reparations (either to Poseidon or to Athena, depending on the version of the myth); however, she would later help Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims. She became the bride of the god Dionysus. — Ariadne
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