- Twelve primary olympian deities
- Zeus (father of gods and men)
- Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, love, and desire)
- Apollo (god of light and darkness, the sun, beauty, music, the arts, knowledge, archery, healing, prophecy, and manly youth; transmitted the oracles while at Delphi)
- Ares (god of war, bloodshed, and all forms of violence)
- Artemis (goddess of animals, birth, virginity, the moon, hunting, and archery)
- Athena (virgin goddess of war, strategy, defense, hand-made crafts, scrapbooking, and wisdom; daughter of Zeus and Metis)
- Demeter (goddess of fertility, nature, seasons, and agriculture)
- Dionysus (god of ecstasy, wine, parties, and theatre; has a mortal mother)
- Hephaestus (god of the forge and fire; serves as master craftsman and master blacksmith of the gods)
- Hera (wife and sister of Zeus, queen of the gods, governs family and marriage)
- Hermes (god of competitive games, thieves and pirates, barter and commerce, and communications; serves as messenger of the gods)
- Poseidon (god of earthquakes and the ocean)
- Additional olympian deities
- Asclepius (god of remedies, healing, and medicine)
- Eros (god of sexual love, and beauty)
- Hades (god of death and black market riches; king of the underworld)
- Hebe (goddess; daughter of Zeus and Hera)
- Hestia (gentle goddess of generosity, the hearth, family, and domestic order; gave her thrown to Dionysus to ensure peace)
- Kronos (father of Zeus and Rhea's husband, and youngest child of Uranus and Gaia)
- Minerva (goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools, justice, and commerce; daughter of Zeus and Metis)
- Pan (god of nature, wilderness, the forest, mountains, shepherds and flocks, hunting, rustic music)
- Persephone (goddess of spring; queen of the underworld and consort of Hades' who kidnapped her {this relationship can be explained by Stockholm Syndrome}; daughter of Zeus and Demeter)
- Rhea (mother of Zeus and Kronos' wife, and the Titaness daughter of Uranus and Gaia)
- Tyche (goddess of fortune, prosperity, and destiny; daughter of Zeus)
- Non-olympian deities and demigods
- Anemoi (gods of the winds)
- Boreas (north)
- Eurus (east)
- Notus (south)
- Zephyrus (west)
- Aura (goddess of fresh air and cool breezes)
- Circe (goddess of magic)
- Deimos (god of terror)
- Eileithyia (goddess of birth; daughter of Hera and Zeus)
- Enyo (goddess of war; is a companion of Ares; daughter of Hera nd Zeus)
- Eos (goddess of dawn who rises each morning from the edge of the world ocean)
- Eris (goddess of chaos, strife, and discord; a.k.a., "goddess of confusion")
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- Heracles (a.k.a., Hercules; famously known for his strength)
- Aeolus (king of winds, master of seasonal winds; keeper of the Anemoi deities)
- Amphitrite (wife of Poseidon, and queen of the ocean)
- Bia (personification of force and violence; she stole fire and gave it to mortals)
- Dione (a nymph of the ocean; Aphrodite's mother according to Homer)
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