GREEK | ROMAN | |
Aphrodite | Venus | Goddess of love and beauty |
Apollo | Apollo | Greek god of sun |
Phoebus | Phoebus | God of music , poetry & prophecy |
Ares | Mars | God of war |
Artemis | Diana | Virgin huntress , goddess of the moon |
Asclepius | Aesculapius | God of medicine |
Athena (Pallas) | Minerva | Goddess of wisdom and art |
Cronus | Saturn | Father of the supreme god : Zeus or Jupiter |
Demeter | Ceres | Goddess of the harvest |
Dionysus | Bacchus | God of wine and fertility |
Eros | Cupid | God of love |
Hades , Pluto | Dis | God of the under-world |
Hephaestus | Vulcan | God of fire |
Hera | Juno | Queen of heaven , wife of Zeus / Jupiter, goddesss of women and marriage |
Hermes | Mercury | Messenger of the gods , god of roads , cunning , comm-erce , wealth and luck |
Hestia | Vesta | Goddess of the hearth |
Hymen | Hymen | God of marriage |
Irene | Pax | Goddess of peace |
Pan | Faunus | God of flocks and shepherds |
Persephone | Proserpina | Goddess of corn and the spring ,goddess of the dead |
Poseidon | Neptune | God of the sea |
Zeus | Jupiter , Jove | Supreme ruler of gods And Men , king of heaven and overseer of justice and destiny |
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
THE GODS OF GREECE AND ROME
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