Olympian Gods
This god received fewer honors than the others because humans feared the oaths he governed.
Hades
The Trojan War is the central event of this Homeric epic.
The Iliad
City besieged for 10 years.
Completed 12 labors
Hercules
Athletic festival held every 4 years in honor of Zeus
The Olympics
This goddess was the only Olympian to side with the Trojans consistently in the Iliad.
Aphrodite
The faithful wife of Odysseus who delays suitors by weaving.
Penelope
Site of the legendary last stand of 300 Spartans.
Thermopylae
Slayer of Medusa
Perseus
Greek word for city-state
polis
This Olympian was granted his seat largely because he invented the first lyre.
Hermes
This warrior’s “rage” drives the plot of the Iliad.
Achilles
Long conflict between Athens and Sparta.
The Peloponnesian War
Flew too close to the sun
Icarus
Greek temple style featuring scroll-shaped capitals
ionic
The least-mentioned Olympian; sometimes disputed; deity of the hearth.
Hestia
Odysseus blinded this creature.
Polyphemus
Important 490 BCE victory over Persia
Marathon
Led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece
Jason
This craftsman built the Labyrinth for King Minos and later escaped Crete using wings he fashioned of feathers and wax
Daedalus
Her Roman name is Ceres; her grief causes winter.
Demeter
This seer warned the Trojans not to bring the wooden horse inside their walls.
Laocoön
Athenian naval victory that turned the tide against Persia
Salamis
Tamed Pegasus and killed the Chimera
Bellerophon
In the Iliad, this High King of the Greeks quarrels with Achilles over a captive woman, causing Achilles to withdraw from battle
agamemnon