Greek & Roman Mythology

Greek myth describes Zeus as an Olympian god associated with the sky, weather, law, and kingship.

Hera is an Olympian goddess whose myths connect marriage, queenship, and family life.

Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses.

Athena is an Olympian goddess associated with wisdom, strategic warfare, and crafts.

Apollo’s Greek myths connect music, prophecy, healing, poetry, and the sun in later tradition.

Artemis is an Olympian goddess associated with the hunt, wild animals, and the moon in later tradition.

Ares represents the brutal and chaotic side of war in Greek mythology.

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, desire, and procreation.

Hermes travels between divine, mortal, and underworld realms and is associated with trade and travelers.

Demeter’s myths connect grain, agriculture, and the seasonal cycle to the story of Persephone.

Dionysus is associated with wine, ecstatic ritual, theatre, and transformation.

Hephaestus is the divine smith whose myths emphasize fire, craft, invention, and skilled making.

Hestia represents the household hearth and the center of domestic and civic life.

Hades rules the Greek underworld in myth and is also the name used for his realm.

The myth of Persephone and Demeter is often used to explain seasonal change and the boundary between worlds.

Heracles is the Greek hero whose labours form one of the best-known cycles of heroic myth.

Achilles is a central Greek warrior in Homer’s Iliad, where honor, anger, and mortality shape his story.

Odysseus is the central voyager of Homer’s Odyssey, remembered for endurance, strategy, and homecoming.

Medusa is the mortal Gorgon in Greek myth whose gaze turns onlookers to stone.

The Minotaur is a creature in Greek myth, kept in the labyrinth built for King Minos of Crete.

The eagle and thunderbolt are associated with Jupiter.

Juno formed part of the Capitoline Triad.

The trident is a familiar attribute of Neptune.

Minerva belonged to the Capitoline Triad.

Mars had an important role in Roman state religion.

Venus was commonly identified with the Greek Aphrodite.

Mercury is commonly depicted with a winged cap or sandals.

Vulcan's festival was called the Vulcanalia.

Vesta was associated with the hearth of both household and state.

Ceres was associated with grain and agricultural fertility.

Janus was associated with transitions and entrances.

Bacchus and Dionysus are names associated with the same god in Greco-Roman traditions.

Virgil's Aeneid follows Aeneas after the fall of Troy.

Their story includes rescue and upbringing by a shepherd's household.