The Greeks thought in lots of Gods (and a lot of generations of Gods) and considered they had each supernatural powers and human weaknesses. In all probability the biggest beings in Greek Mythology are the twelve Olympian Gods who took their title from the place of their dwelling – Mount Olympus.

Zeus
The ruler of the Olympian Gods and God of the sky, thunder and justice. His weapon is a thunderbolt. Married to Hera.

Poseidon
The God of the sea, earthquakes and horses. His weapon is a trident and he is next in ability to Zeus.

Hades
God of the underworld and prosperity. Lord of the useless.

Hestia
Goddess of the hearth and home. The sister of Zeus.

Hera
The Goddess of ladies, relationship and childbirth. The reigning female Goddess of Olympia since she was married to Zeus.

Aris
The God of war. The son of Zeus and Hera.

Athena
The Goddess of knowledge, cause, smart activity, arts and literature. A daughter of Zeus.

Apollo
The God of the sunshine, light, therapeutic, drugs, songs, poetry, prophecy, archery and fact. Son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis

Aphrodite
The Goddess of like, motivation, splendor and fertility.

Hermes
The quickest of the Gods and messenger to all the other Gods. God of commerce, robbers, trade and travellers. The son of Zeus and Maia.

Artemis
Goddess of chastity, virginity, childbirth, the hunt, the forest, the moon and the all-natural environment. The daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo.

Hephaestus
The God of fire and the forge. The son of Zeus and Hera and spouse of Aphrodite.

Daedalus and Icarus
Daedalus was a well-known sculptor and builder who developed a great maze called “The Labyrinth” less than the Palace of Knossos in Crete in which King Minos saved a monster: half person 50 percent bull (the Minotaur) in. The composition consisted of this sort of a difficult tangle that it was not possible to get out of it. Just after the maze was finish, King Minos did not want Daedalus to be ready to inform it’s key to everyone else, so he imprisoned him and his only son Icarus in a tall tower. Daedalus and Icarus did not like getting prisoners, so started out hoping to consider of methods to escape. Right after observing the birds from the windows of the tower, Deadalus decided to make wings out of fowl feathers and wax for him and his son so they may possibly fly absent and be absolutely free. When tying the wings to his son Daedalus warned his son not to fly too shut to the sea as the moist from the waves would damp the feathers generating them far too burdensome to fly with and not to fly too significant in the sky as the solar would soften the wax. Icarus was so fascinated with the flight that he forgot about his father’s warnings and begun to soar higher and bigger. As he climbed into the sky his wings commenced to soften, when Icarus realised what was happening he tried out to fly decrease once again but it was too late the wings broke aside, he fell into the h2o and drowned.

Theseus and Ariadne
King Minos (the King of Crete) experienced a strong navy of which all of Greece was scared. He agreed with King Aegues (of Athens) that he would not attack Athens if the men and women of Athens agreed to send seven boys and seven ladies as food stuff for the Minotaur each yr. When it grew to become time to mail the boys and ladies to Crete, Prince Theseus (the son of King Aegeus) preferred to preserve the youngsters and all these who may possibly be despatched in the potential, so determined he would go with them to get rid of the minotaur. King Aegeus begged his son not to go as he was fearful his son would be devoured by the minotaur way too. But Theseus was insistent and he set sail for Crete in a boat with a black sail, promising his father that the boats sail would be transformed to a white a person to announce if he had received and lived to occur residence. When they arrived in Crete they were being achieved by King Minos and his daughter Ariadne. Princess Ariadne immediately fell in enjoy with Prince Theseus and made the decision to enable him with his mission. That evening she gave to Theseus a sword and a ball of thread and instructed him to tie the ball of string to the door of the labyrinth where by the minotaur lived and unroll it as he went through the maze so he could use it to come across his was back out once again once he had killed the minotaur with the sword. Prince Theseus did precisely as instructed and immediately after he identified the minotaur a major fight was fought which Theseus received by slaying the minotaur and was capable to leave the labyrinth employing the ball of thread to guide him.

Pandora’s Box
According to greek mythology Pandora was the very first lady on earth and was created by the God Zeus in an act of revenge against male. He instructed Hephaestus to produce a lovely girl who the Gods endowed with every single allure (jointly with curiosity and deceit) and sent her to earth as a present for Epimetheus, who fell in enjoy with her and they married. As a marriage gift Zeus sent Pandora a beautiful box which he explained to her hardly ever to open and gave the critical for the box to Epimetheus. In excess of time Pandora became extremely curious about the contents of the box and various moments begged Epimetheus to permit her open up it, but each and every time he explained ‘No’. Eventually one working day when Epimetheus was asleep Pandora stole the essential and opened the box. As she lifted the lid to get a peek inside of awful points flew out of the box, every single variety of disaster gentleman experienced never ever know right before: sickness, despair, malice, greed, hatred, violence, cruelty and war. Not able to catch all these factors ahead of they flew absent Pandora slammed down the lid and turned the essential, preserving only the spirit of hope inside which Zeus experienced involved to enable maintain men and women going when the awful things got them down.