This document summarizes several important gods and figures from Roman and Greek mythology. It provides details about their roles, sacred animals and plants, family relations and other attributes. The gods described include Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Minerva, Apollo, Diana, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Vulcan and Vesta. It also mentions other figures like Cupid, the Muses, Thetis, Oceanus, Tethys, Amphitrite and various sea nymphs and monsters.

3. ROMAN NAME: JUPITER
HIS BIRD IS THE EAGLE AND HIS TREE IS THE OAK.
THE SUPREME RULER, THE RAIN GOD AND CLOUD GATHERER.
HE WEILDS THE AWFUL THUNDERBOLT.
HIS ORACLE IS DODONA IN THE LAND OF OAK TRESS.
HIS WIFE IS HERA.

4. ROMAN NAME: JUNO
WIFE AND SISTER OF ZEUS.
QUEEN OF THE GODS AND GODDESSES.
PROTECTOR OF MARRIAGE AND MARIED WOMEN.
THE COW AND PEACOCK ARE HER SACRED ANIMALS.
ARGOS IS HER FAVORITE CITY.

5. ROMAN NAME: NEPTUNE
RULER OF THE SEA, COMMONLY CALLED “EARTH-SHAKER”
GIVER OF HORSES TO MEN.
AS GOD OF HORSES, POSEIDON OFTEN THE SHAPE OF A STEED.
HE IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH BULLS.

6. ROMAN NAME: PLUTO
THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD AND THE DEAD.
GOD OF WEALTH AND PRECIOUS METALS HIDDEN UNER THE EARTH.
ABDUCTOR OF PERSEPHONE.
HIS LATIN NAME “DIS” MEANS RICH

7. ROMAN NAME: MINERVA
THE GODDESS OF WISDOM AND PROTECTRESS OF CITIES/STATES.
SHE SPRUNG FULL-GROWN FROM THE HEAD OF ZEUS.
ZEUS’ FAVORITE CHILD AND BEARER OF HIS BREASTPLATE, THE AEGIS.
HER FAVORITE CITY IS ATHENS.
HER BIRD IS THE OWL AND SHE CREATED THE OLIVE TREE.

8. APOLLO IS THE SON OF ZEUS AND LETO, A MORTAL WOMAN.
GOD OS THE SUN, ARTS, POETRY AND MUSIC.
GOD OF TRUTH, FROM WHOSE LIPS ONLY TRUTH IS UTTERED.
AN ARCHER-GOD POSSESSING THE BRAZEN ARROWS, SYMBOL OF YOUTH.
ARTEMIS’ TWIN BROTHER.
THE DOLPHIN AND THE CROW ARE HIS SACED CREATURES.
THE LAUREL IS HIS TREE.
HIS ORACLE IS FOUND IN DELPHI.

9. ROMAN NAME: DIANA
GODDESS OF THE MOON, WILDERNESS AND OF WILD CREATURES.
PROTECTRESS OF DEWY YOUTH
HUNTSMAN-IN-CHIEF TO THE GODS.
A VIRGIN GODDESS
THE DEER IS EXPECIALLY SACRED TO HER
THE CYPRESS IS HE TREE

10. ROMAN NAME: VENUS
THE GODDESS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY
BORN FROM SEA FOAMS IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS
WIFE OF HEPHAESTUS
MOTHER OF EROS (CUPID)
HER TREE IS THE MYRTLE DOVE IS HER SACRED ANIMAL

11. ROMAN NAME: MERCURY
THE MESSENGER OF THE GODS
GOD OF COMMERCE, MEDICINE AND ALSO GOD OF THE THIEVES.
HE POSSESSED A WINGED SANDAL, A WINGED HAT ANG HIS WAND CAUDUCEUS
THE DIVINE HERALD WHO LED SOULS TO THEIR LAST HOME
INVENTOR OF LYRE

12. ROMAN NAME: MARS
THE GOD OF WAR
SON OF ZEUS AND HERA
DESCRIBED AS RUTHLESS, MURDEROUS AND BLOODSTAINED
THE VULTURE IS HIS BIRD
THE DOG IS HIS SACRED ANIMAL

13. ROMAN NAME: VULCAN
THE BLACKSMITH OF THE GODS, THE GOD OF FIRE
THE CRIPPLE PATRON OF HANDICRAFTS
THE CRIPPLE PATRON OF HANDICRAFTS
HE WAS OFTEN DEJECTED BY HERA FOR HIS LAMENESS
HE BUILT THAT PALACE FOR GODS AT THE MOUNT OLYMPUS

14. ROMAN NAME: VESTA
GODDESS OF THE HEARTH. THE SYMBOL OF HOME
ZEUS’S SISTER
ALSO A VIRGIN GODDESS LIKE ATHENA AND ARTEMIS

16. ALSO KNOWN IN LATIN AS CUPID. HE IS THE GOD OF LOVE.
HE WA ACCORDIGLY APHRODITE’S SON.
HE WAS A MISCHIEVOUS AND NAUGHTY BOY
WITH HIS IS ANTEROS (AVENGER OF SLIGHTED LOVE), HIMEROS (LONGING)
AND HYMEN THE GOD OF THE WEDDING FEAST.

17. ROMAN NAME: JUVENTAS
THE DAUGHTER OF ZEUS AND HERA
SHE IS BELIEVED TO GIVE THE GODS NECTAR AS THEIR CUPBEARER.
SHE RESTORES YOUTHFULNESS, AS SHE HOLDS STHE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
SHE WAS MARRIED TO HERCULES

18. GODDESS OF THE RAINBOW AND MESSENGER OF THE GODS
THE ANCIENT GREEKS PERSONIFIED THE RAINBOW AS THE GODDESS IRIS
THE FAVORITE HANDMAIDEN AND MESSENGER OF HERA
THE QUEEN OF THE HEAVENLY COURT IN OLYMPUS
IRIS TRAVELS SO SWIFTLY THAT THE MORTALS ONLY SEE HER RAINBOW TRAILS
SHE GIVES THE HEAVEN BEAUTY

19. AGLAIA (SPLENDOR), EUPHROSYNE (MIRTH) AND THALIA (GOOD CHEER)
THEY ARE THREE OR MORE WHO ARE PATRONS OF LIFE PLEASURES
DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS AND EURYNOME
THEY GIVE HAPPINESS, AMUSEMENT, PLAY, RELAXATION AND ETC.
THEY ARE PORTRAYED AS THREE WOMEN DANCING IN CIRCLE.

20. THEY ARE DAUGHTRS OF ZEUS AND MNEMOSYNE
CLIO (HISTORY) URANIA (ASTRONOMY)
MELPOMNE (TRAGEDY) THALIA (COMEDY)
TERPSICHORE (DANCE) CALLIOPE (EPIC POETRY)
ERATO (LOVE POETRY) EUTERPE (LYRIC POETRY)
POLYHYMNIA (SONGS TO THE GODS)
THEY ARE FROM WHOM THE ARTISTS RELY ON FOR IDEAS

21. MESSENGER OF THE FIRST RULES OF CONDUCT, ESTABLISHED BY ELDER GODS.
HER PLACE WAS AT DELPHI WHERE SHE WAS ONE OF THE EARLY PROPHETS
SHE FIRST INSTRUCTED THE PRIMAL LAWS OF JUSTICE AND MORALITY TO MANKIND.
COUNSELOR OF ZEUS
PROPHESIED THE FALL OF TITAN

23. TITAN GOD OF ENORMOUS RIVER CALLED OKEANOS
He was a personification of all salt water of the world
Not interested in power and warfare.
Oceanus was originally the source of all the water.

24. MARRIED OCEAN AND MOTHER OF ALL RIVER NYMPHS
GODDESS OF FRESH WATER
MOTHER OF NEPHELAI (RAIN CLOUDS) AND AURAI (BREEZE)

25. GODDESS QUEEN OF THE SEA
HER NAME MEANS “ALL ENCIRCLING”
SHE RULES THE WATER THAT SOROUNDS THE WORLD
WHEN SHE IS CALM THE WATER IS CALM
WHEN SHE IS ANGRY, THE SEAS GOES WILD
SHE HAS A BRIGHT HAPPY NATURE AND CAN FORETELL THE FUTURE

26. HE IS IDENTIFIED AS THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA
A TRUSTY AND GENTLE GOD
HE TALKS AND THINKS JUST AND NEVER LIES
HE MARRIED DORIS, DAUGHTER OF OCEAN
FATHER OF THE NEREIDS , FIFTY LOVELY NYMPHS OF THE SEA
HE HAS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE HIS SHAPE

27. THE TRUMPETER OF THE SEA
HIS TRUMPET WAS A GREAT SHELL
SON OF POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE
HE IS A MERMAN, DEMI-GOD OF THE SEA.
HE DWELT WITH HIS PARENTS IN THE DEPTH OF THE SEA

28. FEMALE SPIRITS OR WATER NYMPHS LIVINGIN FRESH WATERS LIKE RIVERS, FOUNTAINS, WELLS, SPRINGS, BROOKS.

30. HADES FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DAUGHTE ROF ZEUS AND DEMETER
HADES BROUGHT HER TO THE UNDERWORLD AND BECAME HIS PRISONER
THEY BOTH RULES THE UNDERWORLD
SHE WAS THE GODESS OF VEGETATION EXPECIALLY GRAIN.
SHE WAS THE MAIDEN OF THE SPRING AND GODDESS OF INNOCENCE.

31. AN AGED BOATMAN, THAT FERRIES THE SOUL TO HADES
HE ONLY RECEIVES THOSE EWHOSE LIPS ARE PUT A PASSAGE MONEY
THE PASSAGE MONEY IS CALLED THE DRACHMAS

32. THE THREE-HEADED DRAGON TAILED HOUND
PERMITS ALL SOULS TO ENTER BUT NONE TO RETURN
THEY WILL ONLY LISTEN TO HADES AND PERSEPHONE

33. THE FURIES
ALSO CALLED ERINYES, ARE CHTHONIC GODESSES OF
VENGEANCE
THEY ARE ORIGINALLY GHOSTS OF THE MURDERED
THEY ARE CURSS OF THE DEAD SOULS
COMPOSED OF TISIPHONE, MAGAERA AND ALECTO.
THEY ARE THE PURSUERS AND PUNISHERS OF EVILDOERS

35. SHE IS CALLD THE ALL-MOTHER BUT NOT REALLY A DIVINITY
PERSONIFICATIONOF THE EARTH
SHE IS THE ANCESTRAL MOTHER OF LIFE

36. GODDESS OF THE FOUR SEASONS AND CORN.
DAUGHTER OF CRONUS AND RHEA
MOTHER OF PERSEPHONE
SHE BRINGS BOUNTY TO THE EARTH

37. GOD OF FERTILITY AND WINE
LATER CONSIDERED AS PATRON FOR ARTS
HE INVENTED WINE AND SPREAD THE ART OF TENDING GRAPES
HE HAS DUAL NATURE: ONE ,BRINGER OF JOY AND DIVINE ECSTACY
SECOND, BRUTAL, UNTHINKING, RAGING. THUS REFLECTING TWO SIDES
OF WINE

38. GOD OF THE WILD, HUNTING, RUSTIC MUSIC AND FOLK
MUSIC. PAN APPEARS AS A SATIRE WITH INCREDIBLY
LARGE HORNS.
COMPANIONS OF PAN AND DIONYSUS. THEY ARE HALF-
MAN HALF-GOAT FEATURE.

39. KING OF THE WINDS.
HALF-MAN HALF-HORSE. MOST
ARE WILD AND SAVAGE EXCEPT
FOR THE WISE CHIRON.
THREE SISTERS WHO HAVE HAIRS OF LIVING
VENOMOUS SNAKE. THEY TURN ANYONE TO STONE.

40. ONE OF THE GORGON MONSTERS.
SHE WAS THE MOST KNOWN YET
NOT IMMORTAL. SHE WAS KILLED
BY DEMI-GOD PERSEUS.
TRANSLATED AS “GRAY” SISTERS. THEY
WERE BORN OLD. THEY LIVED NEAR
THE ENTRANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD
ANDWERE THE GUARDIANS OF THE
GORGONS. THE THREE OF THEM
ONLY USE ON EYE.
DANGEROUS AND DEVIOUS
CREATURES, PORTRAYED AS FEMME
FATALES WHO LURED NEARBY SAILORS
WITH THEIR ENCHANTING MUSIC AND
VOCES TO SHIPWRECK AT THEIR ROCKY
COAST ISLAND.