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The gods of ancient Greece, the best documented pantheon of the ancient world, known from Homer and Hesiod, from tragedy and philosophy, and from the archaeology of cult. Greek religion was local before it was panhellenic, and a god's character often varies by city. These are also the deities through which Rome, and later Western astrology and art, read every other pantheon.

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What Defines This Grouping
The gods of ancient Greek religion, among the best documented pantheons of the ancient world. The grouping rests on a literary record from Homer and Hesiod onward together with inscriptions, temple accounts and archaeology. The Olympian family of the poets and the gods actually worshipped in a given city are not the same list, and cult titles vary from place to place. 2
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Era of Attestation
Several of the Olympian names are already present on Linear B tablets of about 1400 to 1200 BCE, and the cult ran continuously until the closing of the temples in the late fourth century CE. 2
Veneration Today
The public cult ended in late antiquity; no continuous worship survives. 2
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The gods of ancient Greece

This group holds the deities of ancient Greek religion, among the best documented pantheons of the ancient world thanks to a rich literary record from Homer and Hesiod onward. At its centre are the twelve Olympians (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Demeter and either Hestia or Dionysus), who dwell on Mount Olympus and govern the ordered cosmos.

Around them the browser will find the older generation of Titans they overthrew, primordial powers such as Gaia and Chronos, chthonic and underworld figures led by Hades and Persephone, and a wide company of lesser gods, nymphs and personifications.

Myth, cult and afterlife

Greek religion was practised through local cult, festival and sacrifice for well over a thousand years; the myths preserved in poetry and drama are one part of it, the civic and mystery cults another. The same god could be worshipped under many local titles and take a different character from city to city.

The tradition was later absorbed and renamed by Rome, and its gods became the common vocabulary of Western art and letters long after the temples closed. The entries note both the classical Greek figure and its Roman counterpart where the two were identified.

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Adonis

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Amphitrite

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Aphrodite

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Aphroditus

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Ares

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Aristaeus

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Artemis

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Asclepius

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Asteria

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Astraea

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Astraeus

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Athena

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Atlas

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Atropos

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Baubo

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Calliope

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Castor and Pollux

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Charon

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Chronos

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Clio

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Clotho

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Coeus

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Crius

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Cronus

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Demeter

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Despoina

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Dionysus

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Eileithyia

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Eos

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Epimetheus

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Erato

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Eris

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Euterpe

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Gaia

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Hades

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Hecate

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Helen of Troy

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Helios

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Hephaestus

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Hera

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Hermaphroditus

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Hermes

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Hestia

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Hyperion

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Hypnos

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Iapetus

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Lachesis

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Leto

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Melpomene

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Menoetius

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Metis

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Mnemosyne

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Nemesis

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Nike

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Oceanus

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Pallas

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Pan

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Persephone

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Perses

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Phanes

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Phoebe

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Polyhymnia

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Poseidon

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Rhea

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Salmacis

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Selene

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Terpsichore

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Tethys

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Thalia

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Thanatos

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The Fates

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The Nine Muses

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Theia

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Themis

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Tyche

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Urania

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Uranos

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Zagreus

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Zeus

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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Greek Religion
Walter Burkert, Harvard University Press, 1985chs. 2-4View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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