Family History

Mr. Zues

Lived in Era 14, got 1 heir(s) (Hades) and was a member of Crusaders Of Worlds
This is all my family of gods,the gods of the world!
Heista (Vesta): The Goddess of the hearth, Heista wasn’t very important to the Greeks. She was a domestic Goddess, and, though originally was one of the twelve Olympians, gave up her golden throne to Dionysius to tend the hearth. She is better known as Vesta, the Goddess of the hearth in Rome. There she always had six virginal attendants who would be buried alive for loosing their virginity. Her flame was kept going constantly, and if it burnt out it was a bad sign for Rome. (the flame was symbolic of the spirit of Rome)

Demeter (Ceres): The Goddess of the earth, and agriculture. (especially grains, such as corn and barley…the name means barley mother) Demeter is seen as an earth mother to this day, and was worshipped in Elyusius. She taught men how to sow grain after her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades and she went into mourning each year that made it so that nothing grew. She is pictured as a golden haired Goddess wearing a crown of corn. Though she has children other than Persephone, none of them picture heavily in myth.

Hera (Juno): The Queen of the Gods. She was married to Zeus, and was horribly jealous (with good cause) of the women he seduced. She was very beautiful (figure of Juno), and fought over the golden apple. Her children include Hephastus, Ares, Hebe, and sometimes Hecate and others.

Hades (Pluto, Dis, Aides, etc.): The God of the Underworld and riches. A rather grim God who rules dispassionately over the Underworld. Married to Persephone. He tends to lurk in his murky domains, and rarely reappears. His invisible helmet is useful to the heroes who often borrow it to slay their foes undetected.

Poseidon (Neptune): God of the sea. Poseidon is always surrounded by a retinue, and tends to remain in the sea. He often gets irritated at heroes and makes the sea very difficult for them. Married to Amphitre.

Zeus (Jupiter): The King of the Gods, and a faithless husband. About 90% of the characters in Greek mythology are children or grandchildren of Zeus. He wielded the mighty thunderbolt, and was married to Hera.

Second Generation Olympians:

These include the important children of Zeus, such as those who make Olympians, or other positions of power. Zeus is their father, and a Goddess or Titans is their mother.

Athena (Minerva): Daughter of Zeus and Metis. When Zeus learned that the child Metis bore might be the one to dethrone him, he changed her into a fly and ate her. Metis continued to live, now inside his skull, and hammered away at armor. This gave him a splitting headache, and so Hephastus burst his head open and Athena stepped out. She was the goddess of wisdom (Metis was very bright…she was the one to get the idea of feeding Chronus stuff to make him throw up his children. Zeus would never be that bright), crafts, and war. Athens is her city, which she won in a contest with Poseidon by granting Athens an olive tree. Athena is very loyal to Zeus, and is the only one he trusts with his thunderbolts and his aegis. She is a maiden goddess, though she often helps heroes in their quests. She has beautiful grey eyes, and attempted to get the golden apple.

Hephastus (Vulcan): An ugly god, he had a disability. Poor Hephastus was lame. The story on his lameness varies with the teller. He was the god of fire and blacksmith, and made all of the beautiful jewelry, the twelve thrones of Olympus, and Zeus’s lightning bolts. He was married to Aphrodite, a very unfaithful wife.

Aphrodite (Venus): The Goddess of Love and Beauty, Aphrodite rose from the sea. In some cases she is Zeus’s daughter, in others she rose from the sea from the blood of the slaughtered Uranus. She was married to Hephastus, but tended to fool around with practically everyone else, her favorite usually being Ares. She bore him several children, the best known of which is Eros (Cupid).

Ares (Mars): The God of War. The Greeks didn’t like this violent, whiny God, but the Romans were fairly fond of him. His siblings and parents despised him, and he was suitably trapped in a jar on occasion. He was attended by Phobus and Deimus (fear and panic). These were the children of him and Aphrodite. One of the biggest scandals on Olympus involved when he and Aphrodite were caught in a golden net made by Hephastus in the act.

Apollo: The god of the sun, light, music, medicine, etc. He was the son of Leto and Zeus, and is the devoted twin brother to Artemis. He was considered gorgeous, and tended to persue nymphs in a manner reminiscent of Zeus and Poseidon. He hung around a lot with the Muses. His great shrine is in Delphi.

Artemis (Diana): Goddess of the hunt and moon, and maiden Goddess, Artemis once changed a man into a stag for looking at her naked. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and was devoted to her twin brother Apollo. She showed some vague romantic interest in Orion, once, before a jealous brother had him killed.

Hermes (Mercury): The god of commerce, good luck, wealth, trickery, roads, fertility, and the messenger of the Gods. He was the son of Zeus and Maia, and was the only of Zeus’s children who Hera didn’t hate on a regular basis. He started off life by stealing Apollo’s cattle and creating a lyre, and eventually escorted souls to the Underworld.

Persephone (Proserpina, Proserpine): The goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld. Daughter of Demeter and Zeus (or Poseidon) and wife of Hades. Stolen from a meadow in Sicily, Persephone spent part of the year (1/4, 1/3, ½, or in a few cases all) in the underworld as queen. The rest of the time she resides in the upper world as the Goddess of Spring with her mother.