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Oldest of these that we know of are the Iliad and the Odyssey that come from Homer.
Other poets we know of are: Virgil, Ovid, Hesiod, Aeshylus, Apuleius, Apollonius of
Rhodes, and Theocritus. These people told stories about the Gods, heroes, and their
adventures. In these stories the Gods have lives much like soap operas.
The creation of the world started with Chaos. Out of him came Gaea, Tartarus,
Eros, and Erebus. Gaea was the Earth goddess and without help she had Uranus,
Mountains ,and Pontus. Gaea Mated with her son, Uranus, and had five more children.
These children were Cyclope, Hecatonchires, Chronos, Coeus, and Oceanus. Uranus was
The sky god and the first ruler. Chronos later became the ruler when Gaea advised him to
castrate Uranus, who died from the wound or left the earth. Chronos and his wife Rhea
gave birth to the first Olymians. To ensure his safety as ruler, Chronos ate his children.
To protect her children, Rhea tricked Chronos into eating a rock instead of Zeus. The
rock that Chronos swallowed made him sick and forced him to puke up the other
. . .
Hades abducted her daughter and took her as his wife it created winter because of
Demeters mourning while she was away. He also
invented the lyre, the pipes, the musical scale, gymnastics, astronomy, boxing, weights
and measures, and the care of olive trees. Also she was a
goddess of wisdom. Hades was the lord of the underworld. The Olympian gods were
worshipped Greece. With Hera Zeus had Hebe, Ares, and
Hephaestus. Hermes would also guide the dead to the underworld. Hera had tried to revolt against Zeus but
failed and was and was punished.
These were the twelve Olympian gods and goddesses and most of the titans. The Greeks believed the Underworld to be
hidden somewhere in the earth. He married Hera, his sister, but had many
affairs. Apollo and Artemis were twins
from Zeus and Leto.
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