About Greek Mythology

Profiles Index

Zeus - Profile of the Greek God Zeus
Zeus is the name of the Greek king of the Gods, the equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter. Zeus is a sky god.

Apollo - Who Is the Greek God Apollo?
Apollo was a Greek god of prophecy, music, healing, and later, the sun.

Hermes - Greek Messenger God
Information on the Greek god Hermes, the messenger god.

Dionysus - Greek God Dionysus
Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and ecstacy.

Pan - Greek God Pan
Greek God Pan

Aphrodite - Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Aphrodite was known Venus in Rome was a major goddess in ancient Greek mythology and in the Roman Vergil's Aeneid.

Tantalus
Tantalus was a mortal son of the Greek god Zeus.

Hades - Greek God of the Underworld
Hades is the Greek god of the Underworld.

Demeter - Greek Goddess
Demeter Greek Goddess

Hephaestus - Greek God Hephaestus
Hephaestus was the craftsman god of Greek mythology.

Thomas Bulfinch - Mythology Story Teller
Thomas Bulfinch retold the stories of Greek mythology for nineteenth-century readers.

Athena - Profile of the Greek Goddess Athena
Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom also known as Pallas Athena. In ancient Rome, Athena was known as the Roman goddess Minerva.

Ares - Greek God Ares
Ares was a Greek god of war and homicide.

Artemis - Greek Goddess Artemis
Artemis was the Greek goddess of the hunt.

Hestia - Greek Goddess Hestia
Hestia Greek goddess of the hearth.

Prometheus - The Greek Titan Prometheus
Prometheus was an ancient Greek creature known as a Titan -- a race of beings from the generation before the gods. Prometheus was the son of the Titan Iapetus.

Atalanta
Identification of Atalanta -- the woman who went on the Argos as one of the Argonauts with Jason.