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Greek pantheon, said to reside atop Mount Olympus. The Olympians gained their supremacy in a
ten-year-long war of gods in which Zeus led his siblings to victory over their predecessor gods,
the Titans.
The concept of the "Twelve Gods" is older than any extant Greek or Roman sources.[5] The gods
meet in council in the Homeric epics, but the first ancient reference to religious ceremonies for the
Olympians collectively is found in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. The Greek cult of the Twelve
Olympians can be traced to 6th-century BC Athens and probably has no precedent in the Mycenaean
period. The Altar of the Twelve Gods at Athens is usually dated to the archonship of the
younger Pesistratos, in 522/521 BC.
In ancient Greek religion, the "Olympian Gods" and the "Cults of Twelve Gods" were often relatively
distinct concepts.
Zeus
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Hera
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Poseidon
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Demeter
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Athena
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Apollo
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God of music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light
and knowledge
god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague,
poetry, and more
oracular godthe prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle
kouros
son of Zeus and Leto
twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis
patron of Delphi
medicine and healing
Artemis
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Ares
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God of War
son
represents
contrast to his
slaughtering."
Counterpart:
Mars
Aphrodite
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Hephaestus
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Hermes
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Messenger of
athletes, border
Hestia
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