INFO ON THE GREEK GODS

DESPITE BEING GOD OF THE SEA, POSEIDON COULD

ALSO STRIKE THE GROUND WITH HIS TRIDENT

PRODUCING AN EARTHQUAKE. THIS EARNED HIM

THE NICKNAME EARTH-SHAKER AND MADE HIM

FAMOUS AMONG GODS AND MEN AS A BAD-TEMPERED

GOD WHO COULD GET VIOLENT IF THINGS

DIDN’T GO HIS WAY

DOG LOVERS ARE PROBABLY AWARE OF HADES’

MOST LOYAL FRIEND CERBERUS, A THREE-HEADED

DOG WITH A SERPENT’S TAIL, A MANE OF SNAKES

AND A LION’S CLAWS, WHO SUCCESSFULLY GUARDED

THE ENTRANCE TO THE UNDERWORLD TO PREVENT

THE DEAD FROM ESCAPING AND THE LIVING FROM

ENTERING. CERBERUS FAILED JUST ONCE IN THIS

TASK, WHEN THE MIGHTY HERACLES DECIDED TO

ENTER THE UNDERWORLD AS ONE OF HIS

TWELVE LABOURS

HERA WAS THE QUEEN OF THE OLYMPIANS AND THE

WIFE (AND SISTER) OF ZEUS. SHE WAS KNOWN FOR

BEING VERY JEALOUS, MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE

EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS AND ILLEGITIMATE

CHILDREN ZEUS HAD. BECAUSE OF THIS, HERA WAS

KNOWN FOR PUNISHING OFFENDING HUSBANDS

AND CHEATERS SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE WAS UNABLE

TO PUNISH THE ONE WHO CONSTANTLY

CHEATED ON HER

ALTHOUGH APHRODITE HAD AFFAIRS WITH HERMES

AND ARES, HER BIG CRUSH ACCORDING TO MANY

ACCOUNTS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN THE DEMIGOD OF

BEAUTY AND DESIRE, ADONIS. SHE SAW HIM WHEN HE

WAS BORN AND DECIDED THAT HE SHOULD BE HERS

FOREVER. SHE ASSIGNED PERSEPHONE TO HIS CARE,

BUT PERSEPHONE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM JUST AS

EVERY OTHER WOMAN DID AND REFUSED TO GIVE

HIM TO APHRODITE. EVENTUALLY, ZEUS HAD TO GET

INVOLVED AND DECIDED THAT ADONIS SHOULD

SPEND HALF THE YEAR WITH EACH

ARGUABLY THE MOST FAMOUS GODDESS OF ANTIQUITY,

ATHENA WAS SECOND ONLY TO HER FATHER ZEUS.

SHE WAS GODDESS OF MANY THINGS INCLUDING WISDOM,

COURAGE, INSPIRATION, CIVILIZATION, LAW AND

JUSTICE, STRATEGIC WARFARE, MATHEMATICS,

STRENGTH, STRATEGY, THE ARTS, CRAFTS, AND SKILL.

SHE WAS ALSO ZEUS’S FAVOURITE CHILD. IT WAS

ALSO BELIEVED THAT HE GAVE BIRTH TO HER AFTER

HE HAD AN ENORMOUS HEADACHE AND SHE SPRANG

FULL GROWN AND ARMOURED FROM HIS FOREHEAD

ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY APOLLO TAUGHT

MEN THE ART OF MEDICINE, SO HE IS OFTEN REFERRED

TO AS “THE HEALER.” ASCLEPIUS, THE GOD OF

MEDICINE IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY,

WAS PROBABLY APOLLO’S MOST WELL-KNOWN SON,

ALTHOUGH APOLLO HAD MANY OFFSPRINGS WITH

DIFFERENT GODDESSES AND MORTAL WOMEN

MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT HERACLES WAS ZEUS’S SON

WITH ALCMENE, QUEEN OF ARGOLIS, BUT NOT MANY

ARE AWARE OF HOW SNEAKY ZEUS WAS ABOUT THE

WHOLE THING. ZEUS DESIRED ALCMENE FOR A LONG

TIME BUT SHE WAS FAITHFUL TO HER HUSBAND AND

IGNORED ZEUS. AS A RESULT, ZEUS DISGUISED HIMSELF

AS AMPHITRYON, ALCMENE’S HUSBAND, IN ORDER TO

HAVE SEX WITH HER, AND THIS IS HOW THE MOST

FAMOUS MYTHICAL HERO OF ALL TIME WAS CONCEIVED

HERMAPHRODITUS WAS AN ANDROGYNOUS DEITY AND

THE OFFSPRING OF HERMES AND APHRODITE. WE GET

THE TERM HERMAPHRODITE FROM THIS DEITY