| 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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