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	Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hephaestus is the god of fire, workmanship, artisans and weaponry and the craftsman of the gods.
		Dionysus is the youngest of the Olympians, and the god of wine, vegetation, fertility and the theater.
		Helios is the god of the sun, brother of the moon, Selene, and the dawn Eos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twelve_Olympians (649 words)

	The Olympian Gods - ReligionFacts
		The corresponding Roman god was Pluto, Dis Pater or Orcus; the corresponding Etruscan god was Aita.
		Hermēs (Greek "pile of marker stones") is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, of the cunning of thieves, and the messenger from the gods to humans.
		Hermes and Dionysus are the youngest of the Olympian pantheon.
	www.religionfacts.com /greek_religion/gods/olympians.htm (1283 words)

	Greek Mythology: OLYMPIAN GODS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		THEOI NOMIOI The gods of country pursuits, such as hunting, fowling and fishing, the herding of cattle and sheep, and horticulture, were led by the Olympians gods Artemis, Hermes and Dionysos.
		GANYMEDES The cupbearer of Zeus and the gods.
		IRIS The goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.
	www.theoi.com /Cat_Olympioi.html (2218 words)

	Greek Gods - Battlestar Wiki
		He married Aphrodite and is the god of fire and the forge and the armourer of the gods.
		Originally one of the twelve Olympians, she was later replaced by Dionysus, afterwards tending the sacred fire on the mountain.
		As the god of the underworld, he was always looking to increases the number of dead under his rule, but he was not himself the god of death (Thanatos).
	en.battlestarwiki.org /w/index.php?title=Greek_Gods (1550 words)

	OLYMPIANS, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		OLYMPIANS are called the gods who live in the House of Olympus, which sometimes means heaven but is also a mountain in Pieria, a region of Thessaly in northern Greece.
		The Olympian gods, presided by Zeus, came to rule the universe after they overthrew the TITANS [see also Titanomachy].
		This god, who tames fire and was once called to chain Prometheus 1, the thief of that same element, is mostly seen with oval cap and the hammer and tongs of the smith.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/OLYMPIANS.html (1286 words)

	Olympians
		Of all the gods in the list, Hestia, goddess of the hearth, was the least known and the least active in mythology.
		Apollo was the god of prophecy and oracle.
		Ares was a son of Zeus and Hera, and was known as the Roman god, Mars.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/olympians.html (13437 words)

	AllRefer.com - Olympian (Ancient Religion) - Encyclopedia
		Olympian, in Greek religion and mythology, one of the 12 important gods who succeeded the Titans as rulers of the universe.
		The divine family of the Olympians was headed by Zeus, who ruled the heavens and earth, and his queen, Hera.
		B.C. the Olympian gods began to yield in importance to the mystery cults (see mysteries).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Olympian.html (242 words)

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		Apollo was a very popular Olympian and all the gods respected him, his half brother Hermes was the only god who dared play a trick on him, this happened just as Hermes was born and stole Apollo’s cows.
		He was the messenger of the gods, and brought the dead down to Hades, he was the god of flocks, roads, trading, thieves (even though he never stole)and merchants, he was sometimes a fertility god too.
		She was the Olympian mother of Eros by Hermes or Ares, Phobos and Deimos by Ares, Harmonia (Peace or Concord), and Priapus by Zeus.
	members.tripod.com /~Poseidon64/3-bio.html (2750 words)

	Greek Mythology Gods Olympians
		The Olympians are a group of 12 gods who ruled after the overthow of the Titans.
		He is also the god of wealth, due to the precious metals mined from the earth.
		She is the Goddess of the Hearth, the symbol of the house around which a new born child is carried before it is received into the family.
	www.desy.de /gna/interpedia/greek_myth/olympian.html (1202 words)

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		The assembly of the gods in council is often shown in art, as on this vase painting (ca.
		Dionysus is also the only Olympian who is depicted as a baby, often in the arms of another deity: Hermes, Silenus (a fat old man who is the god's clownish companion in drunken revels) and occasionally women who are his nurses in myth.
		Because of this variability, his attributes are often most diagnostic, and represent the god even when he is not depicted himself: grapes or vines, ivy, kantharos (wine cup); wild animals like deer or leopards, or their skins; the thyrsos (a staff topped by ivy or a pine cone), and the phallos.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/nestor/gods.html (2269 words)

	MythNET - Olympian Gods
		The Olympians are a group of 12 gods who ruled after the overthrow of the Titans.
		He was the god of the archer, far shooting with a silver bow.
		He was the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, of liars, and of the cunning of thieves.
	www.classicsunveiled.com /mythnet/html/olympian.html (1145 words)

	Classical Studies Essay: Olympian Gods, Twelve Gods of Olympus
		Ares, the god of destructive war, was greatly feared among the Greeks.
		Olympian religion was much more concerned with the here and now and propitiation of the gods for special favors through formal rituals.
		Even though the gods in Homer do show some concern for fairness and justice a few times, it is often stressed that the gap between the mortals and blessed gods is unbridgeable.
	essays.org.uk /classical-studies/olympian-gods/2paper (1042 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.05.15
		We learn, for example, that "[t]he earliest collection of antiquities that definitely included statues of the Olympian deities was that of Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini," in 1500 (83), but then seven pages later that Giovanni da Tolentino, writing in 1490, recorded two statues of the Olympian gods in the Della Valle family palace.
		The structure of her book suggests that artists in the Cinquecento were in a position to respond to a wide variety of source material about ancient representations of gods, including the coins, gems, statues and classical texts that are mentioned in the second part of the book.
		In her discussion, she alludes to some very interesting issues, about the importance of the site where representations of the gods were shown, for example, or the difference to a cardinal between simply displaying ancient material and commissioning a contemporary artist actually to create an idol.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-05-15.html (2057 words)

	The Olympian Gods and Goddesses — FactMonster.com
		was the god of fire and the forge (a furnace in which metal is heated).
		She was the most gentle of the gods, and does not play a role in many myths.
		Hestia was the sister of Zeus and the oldest of the Olympians.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0881990.html (650 words)

	Greek mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Each god descends from his or her own genealogy, pursues differing interests, has a certain area of expertise, and is governed by a unique personality; however, these descriptions arise from a multiplicity of archaic local variants, which do not always agree with one another.
		When these gods were called upon in poetry, prayer or cult, they are referred to by a combination of their name and epithets, that identify them by these distinctions from other manifestations of themselves.
		After the overthrow of the elder gods by the Olympians, another set of myths tells the story of the birth, struggles and exploits, and eventual ascent into Olympus of one of the younger generation of gods: Apollo, Hermes, Athena, etc. The Homeric Hymns are the oldest source of this kind of story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_mythology (3896 words)

	Greek Gods and Goddesses
		The stories about the lives and the adventures of the Greek Gods known as myths were originally created by ancient Greeks in an effort to understand and explain nature and all the things that were at that time hard to explain using scientific knowledge and logic.
		The Titans ruled during the Golden age and were later overthrown by the Olympian Gods during a war known as Titanomachy (The war of the Titans).
		The Olympian Gods are also known as the Dodekatheon, which in Greek means the twelve gods.
	www.greek-gods.org (386 words)

	Olympic Gods
		The gods would fight with each other, fall in love, play tricks on one another, get angry or jealous, and steal from each other.
		The gods made their presence know to people through signs, such as the sound of thunder.
		The Greeks built temples to shelter the gods from the elements.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0210200/ancient_greece/olympiangods.htm (363 words)

	Olympians: Vase Representations
		There are also useful collections of images of the Olympian divinities on the University of Haifa Mythology in Western Art site and on Laurel Bowman's Olympian Gods site, which is part of her project, Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources (University of Victoria).
		Aphrodite in vase-paintings is commonly shown in the company of the gods, in wedding-scenes, at the judgement of Paris (see below, under Hera), or as a presence at the variety of seductions and rapes that she sponsored.
		Hermes is the son of Zeus and Maia (the daughter of Atlas) and a god of exchanges and transitions: legitimate exchange (trade and messages), illegitimate exchange (thievery), and transitions to and from Olympus and the mortal realm, and to and from the mortal realm and the Underworld.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /cciv110x/hesiod/cciv110.olympians.html (2319 words)

	Wanted Greek Gods
		Each student will select his or her own god to research, but you will work together in pairs or small groups of three or four students to combine your information on your poster, report, and presentation.
		Gods, myths, the Latin name for your god, and lots of other good stuff can be found here.
		You and your classmates have now been introduced to the Olympian gods, who are some of the most well known gods of ancient Greece.
	www.dedham.k12.ma.us /webquest/fall2000/cm/WantedGreekGods.html (1533 words)

	Neptune (Olympian God)
		Among the Olympian gods, his level of strength is matched only by those of Pluto and Ares, and exceeded only by those of Zeus and Hercules.
		As the Olympian god of the sea, Neptune is amphibious, able to survive in water and air.
		His god appeared to him, telling him that it was all just part of a prophecy, in which Atlantis would arise, at the forefront of all nations.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/neptunep.htm (3219 words)

	Apollo, Olympian god
		Apollo was one of the greatest of the Olympian gods, and sometimes identified with Helios the sun-god.
		He was the god of the intellect, of the arts, of prophecy, of healing, and of light.
		Beginning with Gaia, Uranus, and the Titans, Aliki chronicles the rise and fall of Cronus and the defeat of the Titans by the new gods (Zeus and company), whom she introduces individually.
	www.occultopedia.com /a/apollo.htm (3239 words)

	Free Essays - Olympian Gods, Twelve Gods of Olympus
		Here we will discuss the primary Greek gods, their origin, individuality, attitudes towards them their portrayal in the ancient mythology and literature up to the fifth century BC, as well as goals and the purposes of the religion.
		The Olympian gods were not the creators of the universe, but rather the offspring of three or four generations beginning with Gaia and Ouranus.
		Being the supreme god of the Greek religion, he is known to be a protector of justice and as a symbol of the father and protector of the family.
	essays.org.uk /classical-studies/olympian-gods (788 words)

	The "Twelve" Olympian Gods of Greece (Roman names in parenthesis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The merchant god; god of boundaries (hermes); psychopompos, "soul’s guide;" inventor of the lyre.
		Goddess of the hearth, the fire that burns in one’s home, was originally one of the twelve Olympians.
		God of wine and debauchery, is later included among the Olympians.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~rankine/Olympians.html (231 words)

	The Olympians - Greek Gods of Mount Olympus - Crystalinks
		The Olympians - Greek Gods of Mount Olympus - Crystalinks
		The Twelve Olympians, in Greek mythology, were the principal gods of the Greek pantheon, residing atop Mount Olympus.
		Persephone spent six months of the year in the underworld (causing winter), and was allowed to return to Mount Olympus for the other six months in order to be with her mother, Demeter.
	www.crystalinks.com /olympians.html (186 words)

	Who were the twelve Olympian Gods? - Answerbag.com
		Hades was not an Olympian god, although he was the brother of Zeus.
		He was actually a Cthonian god, i.e., a god of the underworld (where he lived instead of Olympus).
		However, the Roman god of the dead and underworld was actually Dis.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/9851 (440 words)

	The Trial of the Olympian Gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		You will determine if a god is guilty or innocent, but first you need to know about the law.
		The background of the Greek gods they are prosecuting or defending.
		The application of the current laws to the Greek god they are prosecuting or defending.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /plegal/tips/t3prod/leddywq1.html (769 words)

	Ancient Gods - The Olympians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		After the overthrow of their Father Cronus he drew lots with Zeus and Poseidon, another brother, for shares of the world.
		Once when Zeus was being particularly overbearing to the other gods, Hera convinced them to join in a revolt.
		One of Apollo's more important daily tasks is to harness his chariot with four horses an drive the Sun across the sky.
	www.hol.gr /greece/olymp.htm (1216 words)

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