The Brief Love Story of CUPID and PSYCHE

This is a story on how the two lovers survive in a relationship that full of obstacles made by Venus the Mother of Cupid.

HESTIA

She was Zeus's sister, and like Athena and Artemis a virgin goddess. She has no distinct personality and she plays part in myths. she was the Goddess of the Heath.the symbol of the home, around which the newborn child must be carried beofre it could be received into the family. Evry meal began and ended with an offering to her.

Each city has a public hearth sacred to hestia, where the fire was never allowed to go out. If a colony was to be founded, the colinists caried withthem coals form hearth of the mother-city with which to kindle the fire on the new city's herath.

In Rome, her fire was cared for by six virgin priestesses, called Vestals.

HEPHAESTUS

The God of fire, sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and hera, sometimes of Hera alone, who bore him inretaliation for Zeus's havingbrought forth Athena. Among the perfectly beautiful immortals he only was ugly. he was lame as well. In one place in the Iliad he says that his shameless mother, when she saw that he was born deformed, cast him out ofheaven; in another place he declares that Zeus did this, angry with him for trying to defend Hera.

His wife is one of the three Graces in the Iliad, called Aglaia in Hesiod; in Odyssey she is Aphrodite.

He was kindly, peace loving god, popular on earth as in heaven.

ARES

The God of War, son of Zeus and Hera, both of whom. indeed, he is hateful throughout the Iliad, poem of war through it is. Occasionally the heroes" joice in delightof Ares battle, but for oftener in having escaped" the fury of the ruthless god". Homer calls him murderous, bloodstained the incarnate curse of mortals; and strangely, a cowrd too, who bellows with pain and runs away when he is wounded.

Ares figures little in mythology. In one story he is the lover of Aphrodite and help up to the contempt of the Olypmians by Aphrodite's husband.

he had no cities where he was worshipped. The Greeks said vaguely that he came from the Thrace, home of a rude, fierce people in the northeast of Greece.

Appropriately, his bird was the vulture. The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal.

HERMES

Zeus was his father and Maia, daughter of Atlas, his mother. Because of a very popular statue his appearance is more familiar to us than that of any other god. He was graceful and swift of motion.  On his feet were winged sandals; wings were on his low-crowned hat, too, and on his magic wand, the Caduceus. He was Zeus's messenger, who "flies as fleet as thought to do his bidding"

Of all the gods he was the shrewdest and most cunning; in fact he was the Master Thief, who started upon his career before he was a day old.

he was also th solemn guide of the dead, the Divine herald who led the souls down to their last home.

He appears oftener in the tales of mythology than any other god.

APHRODITE

  

 The Goddess of Love and Beauty, who beguiled all, Gods and men alike; the laughter-loving goddess, who laughed sweetly or mockingly at those her wiles had conquered; the irresistible goddess who stole away even the wits of the wise.

She is the daughter of Zeus and Dione in the Iliad, but in later poems she is said to have sprung from the foam of the sea, ans her name was explained as meaning "the foam-risen/" Aphros is foam in Greek. This sea-birth took place near Cythera, from where she was wafted to Cyprus. Both islands were ever after sacred to her, and she was called Cythrea or the Cyprian as often as by her proper name.

In most of the stories she is the wife of Hephaestus, the lame and ugly god of the forge.

The myrtle was her tree; the dove was her bird---sometimes too, the sparrow and the swan.

HERA

She was the wife of Zeus. The Titans Ocean and Tethys brought her up. She was the protector of marriage and married women were her peculiar care. there is very little that is attractive in the portrait the poets draw of her. 

But when an account of her gets down to details, it shows her chiefly engaged in punishing the many women Zeus felt in love with, even when they yielded only because he coerced or tricked them. it made no difference to Hera how reluctant any of them were or how innocent; the goddess treated all alike. Her implacable anger followed them and their children too.

The trojan war would have ended in an Honorable peace, leaving both sides unconquered, if it had been for her hatred of a Trojan who had judged another goddess lovelier than she. The wrong of her slighted beauty remained with her until Troy fell in ruins.

The cow and the peacock were sacred to her. Argos washer favorite city.

ARTEMIS

Apollo's twin sister, daughter of Zeus and leto. She was one of the three maiden goddesses of Olympus---
She was the Lady of wild things, Huntsman-in-chief to the gods, an odd office for a woman. Like a good huntsman, she was careful to preserve the young; she was "the protectress of dewy youth" everywhere.

As Phoebus Apollo was the Sun, she was the Moon, called Phoebe and Selene. In her shown most vividly the uncertainty between good and evil which is apparent in every one of the divinities. The cypress was sacred to her; and all wild animals but especially the deer.

PHOEBUS APOLLO

The son of Zeus and Leto (Latona), born in the little island of Delos. He has been called "the most Greek of all the gods" He is a beautiful figure in Greek poetry, the master musician who delights Olympus as he plays on his golden lyre; the lord too of silver bow, the Archer-god, far-shooting; the Healer as well, who first taught men the healing art. Even more than of these good and lovely endowments, he is the God of Light, in whom is no darkness at all, and so he is the God of truth, no false word ever falls from his lips.

The laurel was his tree. many creatures were sacred to him, chef among them the dolphin and the crow.

PALLAS ATHENA

She was the daugther of Zeus alone. No mother bore her. Full-grown and in full armor, she sprang from his head. In the earliest account of her, the Iliad, she is a fierce and ruthless battle-goddess, but elsewhere she is warlike only to defend the state and the home from outside enemies. She was pre-eminently the Goddess of the City, the protector of civilized life, of handicrafts and agriculture, the inventor of the bridle, who first tanned horses for men to use.

She was Zeus's favorite child. He trusted her to carry the awful aegis, his buckler, and his devastating weapon, the thunderbolt.

Of the virgin Goddesses she was the chief and was called the maiden, Parthenos, and her temple he Parthenon. In later, she is he embodiment of wisdom, reason, and purity.

Athens was her special city.

HADES

This is Hades. He was the third brother among the Olympians, who drew for his share the underworld and the rule over the dead. he was called Pluto, the God of Wealth, of the precious metals hidden in the earth.

He had a far-framed cap or helmet which made whoever wore it invisible. it was rare that he left his dark realm to visit Olympus or the earth, nor was he urged to do so. he was unpitying, inexorable, but just; a terrible , not an evil god.

His wife was Persephone whom he carried away from earth and made Queen of the Lower World.  He was the King of the Dead---not Death himself.

POSEIDON

 He was the ruler of the sea, Zeu's brother and second only to him in eminence.His wife was Amphitrite, a granddaughter of the Titan, Ocean. Poseidon had a splendid palace beneath the sea.

He was commonly called " Earth-Shaker" ans was always shown carrying his trident, a three-pronged spear, with which he would shake and shatter whatever he pleased.

ZEUS ... the God of all Gods and Goddesses in greece

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to give you a hint, ZEUS is the most important God in greek mythology. He was the Lord of the Sky, the rain-god, and the cloud-gatherer. His power is greater than that of all the other divinities of all. 



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