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Apollo&nbsp;is the god of many things, including: music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge. The son of Zeus and titan Leto and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo taught humans the art of medicine and sometimes they called him 'The Healer', he had the ability to heal people but also to spread infection to those who angered him using arrows. Apollo played music for the Greek gods and goddesses with his golden lyre, that was made by Hermes. The dolphin and swan were the animals sacred to him. Apollo had two places of worship Delos and Delphi. The laurel, used in Greece as a status symbol, was Apollo’s tree.

Cerberus was the famous three-headed dog, pet of Hades, the god of the Underworld. He was standing guard at the Gates of the Underworld. Besides his three terrifying heads, he also had a serpent for a tail. He&nbsp;devoured&nbsp;anyone who tried to escape the kingdom of&nbsp;Hades, the lord of the underworld, and he refused entrance to living humans, though the mythic hero&nbsp;Orpheus&nbsp;gained passage by charming him with music. One of the labours of the warrior&nbsp;Heracles&nbsp;was to bring Cerberus up to the land of the living; after succeeding, he returned the creature to Hades. Cerberus was a child of Typhon and Echidna.

What are the Gods and Goddesses ?

They were &nbsp;a race of&nbsp;deities, primarily consisting of a third and fourth generation of immortal beings, worshipped as the principal gods of the Greek. They called the Olympians because of their residency atop Mount Olympus.

Hector was a prince of Troy in Greek mythology, son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. His wife was Andromache and they had a son, Scamandrius or Astyanax. He was considered the greatest warrior of Troy, he killed 31,000 Greek fighters. His last battle was with Achilles, Achilles was angry because Hector killed his partner Patroclus. Achilles chased Hector so he decided to fight, unknowing that Athena was helping Achilles in the battle. After a fierce duel between the two heroes, Hector died. Then Achilles dragged Hector's body with his chariot, outside the Trojan gates for twelve days, before he finally accepted to give it to the Trojans, so they could bury him properly. Hector’s bravery, courage, and strength through his battles in the Trojan War made him one of the most favored heroes in Greek mythology.

Son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. Aeneas was a leader in the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Aeneas fought for Troy against the Greeks. Aphrodite protected him throughout the war.In Roman literature, mainly the Aeneid written by Virgil, he was one of the few Trojans not killed during the Trojan War. He travelled to Italy, where he settled in the region where Rome would later be built by his descendants, Remus and Romulus.

N°1 Heracles N°2 Prometheus N°3 Achilles N°4 Odysseus N°5 Perseus N°6 Hector N°7 Bellerophon N°8 Aeneas N°9 Orpheus N°10 Theseus

According to Greek mythology, Scylla was the daughter of Forky and Kitos, once a beautiful Nymph that the god Poseidon longed for. The jealous Amphitrite, Poseidon’s partner, turned her into a monster, poisoning her bathing water. She had a body of fish, a female upper torso and dog heads protruding from her neck. Scylla lives on one side of the strait of Messina in Italy. For this reason, the female monster lends her name to many things from the area. These include the city of Scillia, the Scilla flower, and more. Some Greek myths tell that Heracles was the one to end the monster’s life .

Ares is the God of war, violence, bloodshed and manly virtues. He was the first son of Zeus and Hera. He was a cruel god so was disliked by the other Gods except Aphrodite. The union of Ares and Aphrodite created the Gods:&nbsp;Eros (known as Cupid), Anteros,&nbsp;Phobos,&nbsp;Deimos, and&nbsp;Harmonia.&nbsp;Sacred symbols of him included the dog and the vulture.&nbsp;Ares used to carry a bloody spear.

The “Father of all Monsters”. Typhon was the last child of Gaia, his father was Tartarus, and is considered the most powerful and deadliest of all creatures in Greek mythology. Echidna&nbsp;was his wife together they&nbsp;raised some of the most well known monsters and creatures in all mythology. His main head had on it 100 snakeheads, his eyes were glowing red and would terrify everyone who looked upon them. Zeus confronted Typhon by throwing 100 lightning bolts on him and trapped him under Mount Etna in Sicily.

The Minotaur was born when Poseidon decided to take revenge on King Minos of Crete for his disobedience. The god made Minos’ wife, Pasiphae, fell in love with the white male bull and sleep with him. From this union, a terrible child was born that looked like a man but had a bull's head. King Minos, killed his wife but he could not kill the child so he decided to hide in a labyrinth, built by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus. For many years, seven men and seven women were brought into the labyrinth as sacrifices to be fed by the monster. When Theseus entered to the labyrinth killed the Minotaur and also find the way to go out.

The most popular and possibly most admired hero from Greek Mythologhy is Hercules. His father was Zeus and his mother was Alcmene, the granddaughter of the hero Perseus. After Hercules was born, Hera sent two snakes to kill him in his crib but Hercules strangled them. Hera continous with dirty tricks and when Heracles married with King Creon's daughter, Megara. In a fit of madness, induced by Hera, Heracles killed his children and his wife. Guilty and heartbroken, Hercules tracked down Apollo, the god of truth, and begged to be punished for what he had done. He ordered Hercules to perform 12 labors for the Mycenaen king Eurystheus. Once Hercules completed every one of the labors, Apollo declared, he would be absolved of his guilt and achieve immortality. His life ended when he was married to Deianira, who accidently poisoned her husband with a shirt dipped in venom.

The Greek goddess of agriculture and the harvest, she&nbsp;controlled the seasons and the growth of crops.&nbsp;The ancient Greeks worshiped and prayed to Demeter so that her crops would grow successfully. After Hades abducted her daughter, Persephone, she was so grieved so the earth became barren thus, the winter season and its manifestations were a reflection of her emotional state during Persephone’s absence. Demeter's two major festivals were:Thesmophoria festival (only for women) and Eleusinian mysteries. Her symbols include the poppy, wheat, torch, cornucopia, and pig.

Bellerophon was the son of Poseidon and Eurynome, when he was young he captured the winged horse Pegasos. Bellerophon accidentally killed the brother of King Pittheus and was banished. He went to King Proetus to be excused for his crime, but during his stay the King's wife, Stheneboea, seduced him. he rejected her so Stheneboea falsely accused him of attempting to seduce her. Proetus was angry and sent Bellerophon to deliver a sealed message to his wife's father, King Iobates, the message said kill him but Iobates didn't do it and sent Bellerophon to fight with Chimera, Bellerophon killed the monster but the king continous give them more tasks and in all of them Bellerophon was victorious. Iobates gave him part of his kingdom and married him to his daughter. Bellerophon was not satisfied he wanted to reach Olympus so he flew with Pegasus, Zeus throws him angry and that is how he lost the favor of the Gods. However, this was not enough for Bellerophon. In his arrogance, he decided that he could ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus Zeus quickly put an end to his trip by sending an insect to sting Pegasus and Bellerophon fell down.

The “Mother of Monsters”. Most authors seem to agree that her father was the sea god,&nbsp;Phorcys. Echidna was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. Despite being described as immortal by Hesiod, the flesh-eating monster was not invincible, she is killed in her cave by the hundred-eyed giant, Argus Panoptes. Hera sends the giant to kill Echidna as she slept, because of the danger she posed to travelers.

God of wine, the grapevine, fertility, festivity, ecstasy, madness and resurrection.&nbsp;He was the son of god Zeus and the mortal Semele. The god was known as the "twice-born" for his mother was slain by the lightning-bolts of Zeus during the course of her pregancy, but rescued by his father who carried him to term sown up inside his thigh. He created&nbsp;wine and spread the art of viticulture. His symbols include the grapevine, ivy, cup, tiger, panther, leopard, dolphin, goat, and pinecone.

The son of Zeus and the nymph Maia. The second-youngest Olympian, just older than Dionysus. God of shepherds, land travel, and literature. Hermes&nbsp;became the messenger of the gods due to his speed and reliability.&nbsp;He was wearing winged shoes, so he could fly and travel fast.&nbsp;He was the only one besides Hades and Persephone who was allowed to leave the underworld without consequences. Hermes' sacred animals were the ram and the hare.

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N°1 Typhon N°2 Echidna N°3 The gorgons N°4 Sirens N°5 Scvlla N°6 Charybdis N°7 Empusa N°8 Harpies N°9 Lamia N°10 Sphinx N°11 Giants N°12 Chimera N°13 Lernaean Hydra N°14 Mares of Diomedes N°15 Cerberus N°16 Nermean Lion N°17 Stymphalian Birds N°18 Erymanthian Boar N°19 Minotaur N°20 Python N°21 The colchian Dragon

List of Greek Mythological Monsters

In&nbsp;Greek mythology, a creature half bird and half woman who lured sailors to destruction by the sweetness of her song. Some artists drew Sirens that had bodies of birds with the heads of women, while others made them look like women with the legs of birds. Later portrayals of Sirens made them look like seductive women and minimized their bird features. The most famous story about them was when the hero Odysseus (Ulysses), sealed his sailors' ears with wax and bound himself to the mast of his ship, to enjoy himself the beautiful song of the Sirens, without getting in the temptation of following the seductive Sirens.

Theseus was the king and founder-hero of Athens. Sometimes described as the son of Aegeus, King of Athens, and sometimes as the son of the god Poseidon. He was raised by his mother, Aethra, whe he discovered his connection to Aegeus, travels to Athens. The most famous legend about Theseus is with the Minotaur, Every year Athens sent seven young men and seven young women to feed the monster. Theseus to put a stop to this barbarity, enrolled himself asone of the seven and sailed to Crete. With the help of Ariadne, daugther of Minos, who gave him a ball of string and a sword he could killed the monster and found they way out of the labyrinth Sailing back to Athens, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos, then he sailed on home but he forgot the promise he did to his father, he didn´t change his ship's sail to white, so his father saw the black sail and thought that his son had been killed by the Minotaur. He threw himself to the sea below. Thereafter, the sea carried his name, the Aegean. Theseus inherited the throne and he settled down to government. As king he implementing democracy and fairness throughout the civilization.

The Gorgons were three deadly sisters whose hair was made of living, venomous snakes and they could turn anyone into stone just by looking into their eyes. The famous sisters were Stheno, Euryale and Medusa. Medusa is the most famous. Stheno and Euryale were immortal, Medusa was not. The Greek hero Perseus killed Medusa and used her head as a weapon to turn his enemies into stone. He later gifted it to Athena, who placed the head of Medusa on her shield.

Goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. The daughter of Zeus and the&nbsp;Oceanid Metis, she rose from her father's head fully grown and in full battle armor. Her sacred symb ols being the owl and the olive tree.&nbsp;As the goddess of strategy in battle, she is the female counterpart to Ares.&nbsp;She is one of three virgin&nbsp;goddess. Athena is the patron goddess of Athens city. Her most important festival was the Panathenaea, which was celebrated annually.

PROMETHEUS was the Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task of moulding mankind out of clay. His attempts to better the lives of his creation brought him into conflict with&nbsp;Zeus. Firstly he tricked the gods out of the best portion of the sacrificial feast, acquiring the meat for the feasting of man. Then, when Zeus withheld fire, he stole it from heaven and delivered it to mortal kind hidden inside a fennel-stalk. As punishment for these rebellious acts, Zeus ordered the creation of&nbsp;Pandora&nbsp;(the first woman) as a means to deliver misfortune into the house of man, or as a way to cheat mankind of the company of the good spirits. Prometheus meanwhile, was arrested and bound to a stake on Mount Kaukasos (Caucasus) where an&nbsp;eagle&nbsp;was set to feed upon his ever-regenerating liver. Generations later the great hero Herakles came along and released the old Titan from his torture

We can not talk about the twelve olympics without mentioning Hades

God of the dead and the king of the underground. Hades was the eldest son of the&nbsp;titans Cronus and Rhea. After Cronus was overthrown by his sons, his kingdom was divided among them, and the&nbsp;underworld&nbsp;was given to Hades, this places is where human souls go after death. Cerberus guarded the entrance to the Underworld. Hades is usually pictured with a beard, a helmet and his three headed dog, Cerberus, is with him.&nbsp;Hades abducted Persephone and took her into the Underworld.

God of fire, metal working, sculpture. In some stories, he was the&nbsp;son of Zeus and Hera but in others he was only the son of Hera, conceived in order to get back at Zeus for bringing forth Athena. Hephaestus was born deformed and&nbsp;ugly so his mother &nbsp;threw him out of Olympus. Since then he has been limping. Hephaestus fell into the sea, where he was picked up by Thetis and Eurynome and raised by them. He was married to Aphrodite. &nbsp; Hephaestus made the sword and&nbsp;shield of Achilles, the arrows of Eros. He is depicted with a hammer and anvil.

The only son of Zeus and Danae – and, thus, a half-god by birth – Perseus was one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology, most renowned for beheading the only mortal Gorgon, Medusa. When Perseus was fully grown, King Polydektes (Polydectes) commanded he fetch the head of Medousa. With the help of the gods, Perseus obtained winged sandals, an invisible helm and a magical sword. He then sought out the ancient Graiai and stealing their single eye compelled them to reveal the location of the Gorgones. Perseus approached Medousa as she slept and beheaded her with eyes averted to avoid her petrifying visage. On his journey back to Greece, Perseus came across the princess Andromeda chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea-monster. He slew the beast and married with the princess.

The giants were born as the children of&nbsp;titans&nbsp;Gaia and Uranus. &nbsp;According to mythology, around 100 different giants were born out of the ground when Uranus’ blood fell upon the earth. Not all the giants were equal in size, and some weren’t even that big, but they all had incredible man power. The battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods called Gigantomachy, the Gods won. The most famous of the combatants were Enkelados&nbsp;who was buried by Athena beneath Mount Etna,&nbsp;Polybotes&nbsp;who was crushed by an island cast by Poseidon, and&nbsp;Porphyrion&nbsp;who was slain by Zeus and Herakles when he attempted to violate the goddess Hera.

Odysseus was the King of Ithaca who provided much wisdom, counsel, and intelligence during the Trojan War. Odysseus recruited Achilles to lead the Trojan War, which contributed to the Greek victory. Odysseus also thought of building a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside with this the Greeks finally managed to enter Troy While Odysseus was victorious during the Trojan War, he is most known for his heroic return to Ithaca once the war was over. Facing sirens, a Cyclops, and Scylla and Charybdis, the 10-year journey of Odysseus returning home was documented in Homer’s The Odyssey. Odysseus finally arrives in Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, have been struggling to maintain their authority during his absence. Odysseus proves his identity—with the aid of Athena—by accomplishing Penelope’s test of stringing and shooting with his old bow. Then, with the help of Telemachus and two slaves, kill Penelope’s suitors. Penelope still does not believe him and gives him one further test. But at last she knows it is he and accepts him as her long-lost husband and the king of Ithaca.

According to Greek mythology and the ancient Greek religion, the Titans were the pre-Olympian gods, but the twelve Olympians gained their supremacy on Earth after Zeus, along with his brothers Poseidon and Hades, and their children will achieve victory in the war against the Titans. This war called “Titanomachy" and it lasted 10 years. And so the prophecy of Uranus against Cronus was fulfilled, in which he told that one of his sons would overthrow him.

He had a great talent for music and poetry, His parents were the king of Thrace Oeagrus and the Muse Calliope. Apollo gave him his first lyre. Orpheus was married to Eurydice who died of a snake bite. With his heartbroken from losing his love, the gods advised him to go to the Underworld and bring his wife back. With his beautiful music Orpheus was able to soften the heart of the violent Hades but there was a condition upon leaving the land of death, both Orpheus and Eurydice were forbidden to look back. The couple climbed up toward the opening into the land of the living Orpheus seeing the Sun again, turned back to share his delight with Eurydice. In that moment, she disappeared. During the end of his life, he only believed in the sun, whom he called Apollo. One day, he went to pray the sun near the oracle of Dionysus. the Maenads caught him and killed for being an infidel to the god Dionysus.

Zeus&nbsp;was the most powerful of the Greek Gods and ruled over all the other Gods. His name means "bright" or "sky" and his temper affected the weather. He was&nbsp;the youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Brother and husband of Hera and brother of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia. The name Zeus means "bright" or "sky."His weapon of choice was the thunderbolt, made for him by the Cyclops. 

The warrior Achilles is one of the great heroes of Greek mythology. According to legend, Achilles was extraordinarily strong, courageous and loyal, but he had one vulnerability–his “Achilles heel.” Achilles was born to the sea nymph, Thetis. To make her son immortal, Thetis submerged Achilles into the River Styx while holding Achilles by his heel, this part of his body remained exposed, which would be attributed to his downfall. Achilles was the star of the Trojan War, winning numerous battles during the 10-year war. Achilles main triumph was slaying Hector, the prince of Troy.

Chimera was a three-headed beast: she had a lion's body and head, a tail that ended up in a snake's head, and in the middle of her back came a goat's neck and head. Daughter of Typhon and Echidna, she could breathe fire from her mouth, according to Homer and Hesiod. Bellerophon, the great hero in Greek mythology, was the one to kill this monster, with the help of the flying horse Pegasus.

Goddess of love, pleasure, passion, beauty and desire. The daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Dione, or perhaps born from the sea foam after Uranus' blood dripped into the sea after being castrated by his son, Cronus, who threw his father's genitals into the sea. Aphrodite's symbols were doves, roses, swans, and sparrows. Due to her beauty, Zeus thought she would be the cause of violence between the other gods for this reason he married her to Hephaestus. She did not love him, so she had romances with other gods and mortals with whom she had 16 children. Her most notably affair was with Ares.

¿Why did the Gods and Goddesses exist?

In Ancient Greek, the population had a series of beliefs that helped them understand themselves and the world around them.&nbsp;Ancient Greek religion was based on the belief that there were&nbsp;twelve gods and goddesses&nbsp;that ruled the universe from Mount Olympus, in Greece.

The monsters of Greek mythology are non-existent creatures, unreal, created entirely by the ruthless human imagination. Each monster usually combines some realistic elements of various existing creatures and other imaginary characteristics; they usually appear in secondary roles in Greek myths; being an obstacle to great heroes

The goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of&nbsp;chastity&nbsp;and childbirth.&nbsp;Apollo's twin sister, most stories depict Artemis as firstborn, becoming her mother's&nbsp;midwife&nbsp;upon the birth of her brother Apollo.&nbsp;As the goddess of the hunt, she used her own bow and arrows and had a hunting dog as her companion.&nbsp;Artemis was a virgin goddess. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Artemis punished anyone who hurt any animal sacred to her, including bears and deer.

Poseidon is best known as the Greek sea god, but he was also the god of horses and of earthquakes.&nbsp;His home was Aegean Sea, his temper controlled the seas, so sailors prayed to him before voyages to ensure safe passage. His symbols include the horse, bull, dolphin, and trident. Though humanoid, he fathered both the winged horse Pegasus (by Medusa, no less) and the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is blinded by Odysseus.

The youngest daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister-wife of Zeus. She&nbsp;was the queen of the Greek gods and also the goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth.&nbsp;She was known to be jealous and vengeful towards the lovers and children of her husband. She was also known to turn her anger towards mortals who crossed her – for example,&nbsp;Paris, who chose&nbsp;Aphrodite over Hera as the most beautiful goddess. Temples were erected in her honor at Argos and Salmos. She has three children with Zeus: Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. Her sacred bird was first the cuckoo, later the&nbsp;peacock.

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THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS

Zeus - God of the Sky Poseidon - God of the Sea Ares - God of War Aphrodite - Goddess of Love Hera - Goddess of Women Demeter - Goddess of Harvest Athena - Goddess of Strategy Apollo - God of the Sun, Music and Poetry Artemis - Goddess of the Hunt Hephaestus - God of Fire Hermes - The Messenger God Dionysus - God of Wine

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