He ruled over men and gods alike from his throne on mount olympus. Perseus, son of zeus, was a greek hero from argos He is best remembered for killing medusa, rescuing andromeda, and founding the city of mycenae. Helen of troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships,” was a daughter of zeus and leda who was famous for her extraordinary beauty When helen left her greek husband for a handsome trojan prince, the greeks started the trojan war to get her back. The curetes were rustic deities of the island of crete, connected with nature, initiation, and culture
They were best known for protecting the infant zeus from his murderous father cronus by dancing around him and clashing their arms to hide the sound of his cries. Hera, sister and wife of zeus, was the queen of the olympians and the greek goddess of women, motherhood, and marriage She was constantly jealous of zeus’ many affairs. The norse gods and goddesses are the array of deities honored by ancient nordic worshipers They primarily came from two different tribes, the aesir and the vanir, but were united in their efforts to fight the jötnar, a tribe of giants dwelling in another realm of the world tree yggdrasil. Rhea was a greek titan and mother of the olympian gods
Persephone was the daughter of zeus and demeter, the wife of hades, and the queen of the underworld Her most important myth tells of how hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the underworld so that she could never leave Not even her mother, demeter, could bring her home. Cronus was the youngest of the greek titans, best remembered for dethroning his father uranus He became a tyrant, however, devouring his own children until he was finally usurped by his youngest son, zeus. Jupiter was the supreme god of the roman pantheon, a god of the sky and weather and the champion of rome and its empire
His greek counterpart was zeus.
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