Questions for Discussion

What character should a man possess to be a good military leader?

What factors determine the victory of

a war?

The Gods

• Aphrodite (Venus) • Apollo• Artemis (Diana) • Athena• Cupid• Demeter (Ceres)• Dionysus (Bacchus)• Hebe

• Hera• Hephastus (Vulcan)• Hermes• Hestia (Vesta)• Poseidon• Prometheus• Zeus

Son of Zeus & Hera

Detested; murderous; bloodstained

The god of war

Ares

lyre

God of lightGod of truthKilling of a serpent

Zeus’s son

Sun-godApollo

Virgin goddess

Olive; owl

Wisdom; reason

No mother

Zeus’s aegis

Athens

Athena

eagle

Aegis

thunderbolt

Love affairs

Supreme ruler

Zeus

Zeus’s brother

Earth shaker

trident

Giving first Horse to man

Ruler of the sea

Poseidon

jealous

Protector of marriageZeus’s sister

Punishing womenHaving affair with . . .

Zeus’s wife

Hera

Maiden goddess

Woods & huntsman

Apollo’s twinsister

Moon

Artemis

Son of Hera (& Zues)

Ugly; lame

Cast from heaven

Armour & smith

Hephastus

The foam of the seaMyrtle; dove

Love & beautyAphrodite (Venus)

Low-crowned cap

Magic wandWinged sandals

Apollo’s lyre

Master Thief

Zeus’s messenger

Hermes

Zeus’s brother

God of wealth

Cap; invisible

Unpitying; inexorable; but just

Ruler of the underworld

Hades

Virgin goddess

Zeus’s sister

Goddess of thehearth

Hestia

The Lesser Gods

• Charon• Cupid• Demeter• Dionysus• Erinyes (the Furies)• The Gemini• Gorgons• Graces• Hebe

• Iris • Janus • Leda• Lethe • Muses• Pan • Prometheus • Satyrs (Faunus)• Sirens

What is theThing in herhand?

Goddess of Corn

Demeter (Ceres)

What are the thingsin her hands?

Daughter of Zeus& Hera

Cup bearer

Goddess of youth

Hebe

Titan

Giving man fire

Savior of mankind

Prometheus

What is that in hisright hand?

What is that in his left hand?

God of vine

Dionysus (Bacchus)

Aphrodite’s son

Mischievous

God of love

Cupid

Dragon-like

With wings

Whose lookTurned menInto stone

Gorgons

Goddess of rainbow

Iris

Enchanting voices

Luring sailorsTo their death

Sirens

Mom of Castor& Clytemnestra

Mom of Pollux & Helen

Zeus; swan

Leda

Hermes’s son

Pipes of reed

With a goat’s hornsWith a goat’s hoofs

Shepherds’ god

Pan

Goat-men

satyriastis

Satyrs

Three in numbers

Punishing Crimes on the earth

Furies

boatman

underworld

Ferrying the soulof the dead

Charon

Nine in number

Queens of songs

Muses

Three in number

Incarnation of beauty

Graces

Two faced

At a temple

War & peace

Janus

Three-headed

Guarding the gateof the underworld

Cerberus

Two brothers

Zeus; Leda

Constellation;stars

Gemini (Castor & Pollux )

Place name

Abode of perfect blessedness

No tough wind; no rain

Gods’ dwellings

Olympus

A Titan

Ruling over other Titans

Zeus’s father

Cronus (Saturn)

The Old Man of the Sea

50 daughters

One of them was Thetis

Nereus