Greek Gods and Goddesses?

Question

I need as much information about the Greek Gods and Goddesses as possible. I am planning on writing a book so please also provide where the information came from. It doesn't have to be just the major Gods and Goddesses it can be any of them major or minor such as:Zeus,Pan,the Fates,Cronus,Gaia. I need information as to the beginning of time all the way to the last known myth. Thank you!!!!

Answer 1

Two very thorough, well-illustrated sites on the topic I would reccomend are:

The Theoi Project, http://www.theoi.com
Specializes in Greek gods and goddesses, 100's of them.

Greek Mythology Link, http://www.maicar.com/GML/
All about mythology, various topics and characters are covered.

The Theoi site also has a library of ancient Greek and Roman literature on myth -- the full versions of the stories give you a better "feel" for the characters gods, rather than just brief summaries of the myths.

Answer 2

Go to www.theoi.com/ and click on the libary section and read everything there, or at least the Greek sources. I recommend the lliad first, or the homeric hyms first cause they're shorter and, oh so beautiful! Basically what I'm saying is that actually reading the myths is the best way to learn about greek mythology especially if you're intentions are to write a book, The good news is that this part isn't even work it's fun. :D Then maybe you might want to read some books written by modern author's on the subject if you want to look at some contempoary views on the subject. Like Bahcuss: the biography (if you like dionysus).........writting a book isn't easy you need years of research, if you want to write a good one anyways.

Answer 3

Here's two sites that might help!
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Greekrel
http://www.the-pantheon.com/main.htm

Also, when I was little, I read these two books called "Have A Hot Time, Hades" and "Phone Home, Persephone" by Kate McMullan, and they had Gods and Godesses family trees in the back, as well as information on some of the Gods and Godesses. The books themselves are comedic, but the information might help. I reccomend you Google and E-bay Greek Mythology or Gods and Godesses for books, websites, and other helpful stuff.

Good luck with your book!

Answer 4

Greek name Roman name
Zues Jupiter
Hera Juno
Artemis Diana
Apollo Apollo
Hermes Mercuary
Ares Mars
Aprodite Venus
Posiden Neptune
Hades Pluto

Have much more info e-mail if you want some more info on myths/names/etc

Answer 5

You want to write a book about mythical Greece & Rome, but don't know anything about their deities??? Um, try reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton0. Use Wikipedia. Try reading Joseph Campbell's stuff. You don't seem to have thought this through... There's so much information out there, why are you coming here to start? Maybe you should give up now. There are scholars who dedicate their entire lives to this topic... good luck, or whatever.

Answer 6

That's a tall order buddy.

Check out. The Theogany, the Homeric Hymns, the Hymns of Orpheus, The Iliad, the Odyssey, and ah... there's more! Check it out. Ancient Greek lit is very cool.

Answer 7

if you really want to know about greek gods you can refer to me (next time I will come to Yahoo answer I will prepare a small description of the gods and if you are really interested I will tell the stories from the scratch) but if you are really interested in the other part of the Greek Culture - The Titans few I know about them because they were banned.

Answer 8

apollo was god of sun and prophecy.
artemis was goddess of the moon and hunting.
the above deities were twins by the way.
hades was god of the underworld. his helmet was given to him by the cyclopes.
dionysis was god of wine.
zeus was king of them all.
hera was zeus' wife.
half of the olympians were sons/daughters of zeus.
olympians were the ones who defeated the titans.
hermes was god of theives.
helios and apollo are the same deity, yet different characters (incarnates... which makes me wonder)
that should give u a beginning. enjoy

Answer 9

my favorite story is persephane and demiter. so Hades the god of the underworld supposedly kidnapped persephane who is the daughter of demiter. So Demiter is the goddess of "spring " and for the 6 months that her daugher was missing that she did not bring forth sunshine and nature - which would be called winter and fall seasons.
google the rest of teh story ....

Answer 10

Get a greek god book it'll inform you way more than anyone on her can...i have one...or u could try wikipedia.com just type in names and it'll tell u all about them