1. Table of Major Gods and Goddesses

Greek name(Roman name): Principal Junction

Zeus(Jupiter, Jove):  king, god of the sky

Hera(Juno):  queen, goddess of marriage

Poseidon(Neptune):  god of the sea

Hades(Pluto, Dis):  god of the underworld

Demeter(Ceres): goddess of agriculture

Hestia(Vesta):  goddess of home and hearth

Athena(Minerva, Pallas):  goddess of war and wisdom

Apollo(Apollo): god of light, music, healing, the sun

Artemis(Diana): goddess of the wild, virgin huntress, the moon

Aphrodite(Venus): goddess of love and beauty

Ares(Mars):  god of war

Hephaestus(Vulcan):  god of fire, blacksmith and craftsman

Hermes(Mercury):  messenger, god of travel and communication

Dionysus(Bacchus):  god of wine and madness

Persephone(Proserpina):  goddess of underworld and of spring

Eros(Cupid): god of love

Cronus/Kronos(Saturn):  father of the gods

Rhea(Ops):  mother of the gods

2. Sources

Homer's Illiad and Odyssey

Hesiod's Theogony

Athenian Drama by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes

Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy