how many GODS & GODESSES are there in greek mythology? who are they?

Question

what were their names, what were they gods or godesses of?

Answer 1

There are twelve main Gods and Goddesses of Greek mythology that live on Mt. Olympus, the home of the Gods, and Hades in the underworld:

Zeus - the supreme God of the Gods.
Hera - the Goddess of marriage, and the wife of Zeus.
Poseidon - the God of the sea, earthquakes, and horses.
Aphrodite - the Goddess of love, beauty, and fertility.
Demeter - the Goddess agriculture.
Dionysus - the God of wine.
Ares - the God of war.
Hepaestus - the God of fire and crafts.
Athena - the Goddess of wisdom, war, and domestic arts.
Apollo - the God of prophecy, music, and healing.
Artemis - the Goddess of the hunt and childbirth.
Hermes - the messenger of the gods.
Hades - the God of the underworld.

For more detailed explanations of each God or Goddess, this site should suffice: http://www.mythweb.com/gods/index.html

Answer 2

There are too many to name, when one includes the minor gods and goddesses, as well as different forms of the same ones. However, the major ones where Zeus, Hera, Aries, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Dionysus, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon, Demeter, Hades, and Hestia. Sometime Persephone is also considered a major one, but I personally don't. Some of the more significant minor ones would be Helios, who can also be considered to Apollo sometimes, Selene, who can be considered Artemis, and Eos, who is always just herself. My personal favorite is Astraea, which is the image of our Justice in courts with the scales and all. Ironically, as Moonshine mentions that Hestia was a goddess of wife hood, she never married and remained a Virgin Goddess, which is why you have the priestess's of her Roman counterpart, the Vestal Virgins.

Answer 3

Its impossible to know exactly how many as each city state had it's own cults and temples and archaeologists are constantly discovering new god(dess)s . All of the above websites are great resources but until every Greek city state and their colonies are fully excavated and understood all answers will be guesses.

Answer 4

I can't name all of them but I can supply you with some great websites. Both have been helpful when I teach Greek mythology.

Answer 5

Aphrodite - Apollo - Ares - Artemis - Athena - Demeter - Dionysus - Hephaestus - Hera - Hermes - Poseidon - Zeus - Others

Answer 6

Zeus, Helena, Troy, John Paul Ringo and Elton.

Answer 7

many people think that they so many people move around doing the Greek times because the Greek were killing people that they could haven been a set of people or a race of people that could have been erase by the Greeks

Answer 8

* Zeus king of the gods
* Poseidon god of the seas
* Hades god of the dead and the underworld
* Hestia goddess of th hearth
* Hera queen of the gods and goddes of women
* Ares god of war
* Athena goddess of wisdom and defensive battle
* Apollo god of the sun and healing
* Aphrodite goddess of beauty
* Hermes messenger of the gods and god of travel
* Artemis goddess of the hunt
* Hephaestus god of the forge
these are the 12 main gods, there were hundreds of lesser gods and goddesses, other notables are:
Demeter goddess of fertility (natures bounty)
Dionysus god of wine
Dionysus queen of the underworld
Eros god of erotic love
of course there are many more, here are a few links, you can find more if you run a search

Answer 9

18 Titans, including Cronus, who were overthrown by 12 Olympian gods led Zues, son of Cronus. And there were 14 lesser gods.

http://www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/greek_myth.html

Answer 10

There are only a few of us that still hang around or even pay attention to this world