Mario+S+mythology

__Mythology__ **//Greek mythology//** Here are the twelve Olympians, the 12 major gods:[|Zeus] [|Hera] [|Hades] [|Poseidon] [|Athena] [|Ares] [|Apollo] [|Artemis] [|Hermes] [|Aphrodite] [|Hestia] [|Demeter] //**All the greek gods from A-Z**// media type="custom" key="9687956" align="right" width="130" height="130"

[|**Apollo**] (Apollo)- the god of light and of the sun, of the arts, music and poetry, of healing and medicine and the leader of the Muses.

[|**Ares**] ([|Mars]) - the god of war

[|**Atlas**] - the Titan who held the Heaven on his shoulders

**Achelous** - god of the river with the same name

[|**Aeolus**] or **Aiolos** or **Aeolos** - god of the Winds. For the other characters named [|Aeolus, click here.]

**Anemoi (Venti)** - the generic name of the wind gods

**Asklepios** - god of Medicine

**Astraeus** - Titan of the dusk



**Boreas** - god of the Northern Wind

**Briareus** - a Giant



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Chaos**] - the initial Chaos

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Charon** - a genius of the underworld

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Chronos** - the god of Time (Saturn)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Crius** - the least individualized among the Titans, maybe he was added just to complete the number

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Cronus/Kronos** - the leader of the Titans

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Coeus** - Titan of the intellect

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Dionysus** - the god of wine and agriculture (Bacchus)

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Epimetheus** - Titan of afterthought

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Eros** - the god of Love (Cupidon or Cupid)

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Glaucus** - a sea-god <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hades** - the god of the dead (Pluto)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Hephaestus**] - the god of Fire (Vulcanus)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Helios** - a Titan, personification of the sun. He was also called //Hyperion//

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hermaphroditus** - the son of Hermes and Aphrodite

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Hermes**] - the messenger of the gods (Mercury)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hopladamos** - one of the Gigantes, who accompanied Rhea when she was pregnant with Zeus

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hymenaios** - was considered the god of the marriage ceremonies, but he was, in fact, a mortal

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hyperion** - Titan of the light and of the east

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hypnos (Somnus)** - the personification of sleep

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Iacchus** or **Iakkhos** - a god related to the Eleusinian mysteries or a personification of Dionysus

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Iapetus** - the Titan of Mortal Life

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ismenos** or **Ismenus** - the god of the river with the same name, in Boeotia

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Istros** - the god of the river Danube

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ladon** - the god of the river with the same name, in Arcadia

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Marsyas** - a satyr who loved music... to death

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Meander** or **Maiandros** - the god of the river Meander

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Morpheus**] - the god of sleep

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Nereus** - or The Old Man of the Sea, a Titan who was the father of the Nereids

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Nilus** - the god of the Egyptian Nile River

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Notus** - the god of the South wind

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Oceanus** or **Okeanos** - a Titan, personification of the river which encircled the world, according to the ancient Greeks and Romans

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Oneiroi** - the Dreams

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Pallas** - Titan of warcraft

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Pan** - the god of the shepherds

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Peneus** - the god of the river with the same name, in Thessalia

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Penthos** or **Penthus** - the spirit of grief, mourning and tears

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Perses** - Titan of destruction

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Pikolous** - a giant who was turned into the plant called "moli"

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Plutus** - the personification of wealth

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Pontus** or **Pontos** - a sea god

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Poseidon** - the god of the sea (Neptune)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Priapus** - a fertility god

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Prometheus** - the Titan of forethought, who gave man the fire

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Proteus** - an Old Man of the Sea, a sea god who could change shape

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the Greek alphabet there was no letter Q, so there are no Greek gods names that start with a Q.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Uranus** - the personification of the sky/heavens <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Zephyrus** - the god of the West wind

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Zeus** - the ruler of all the gods (Jupiter)

**The Principal Gods Family Tree** [|Uranus]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;"> = [|Gaea]

[|Cronus] = [|Rhea][|Coeus] =

[|Phoebe][|Oceanus]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;"> = [|Tethys]

[|Leto]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;"> = [|Zeus][|Iapetus]

[|Hestia] [|Poseidon] [|Demeter]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;">= [|Zeus] [|Hades][|Zeus]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;"> = [|Hera] [|Persephone] [|Prometheus] [|Athena] [|Atlas][|Epimetheus]

[|Apollo][|Artemis] [|Aris][|Hebe][|Hephaestus][|Zeus]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;">=Maia [|Zeus]<span style="font-family: Courier New,Lucida Console,Courier,Monaco,Monospace,monospace;">=Dione

[|Hermes][|Aphrodite] [6/6/2011]