Classical Studies

A painting depicting the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth and standing on an open shell, where she has emerged from the sea fully-grown. She is naked with long, golden hair and is accompanied by three figures; Zephyr and a nymph blow wind, while another woman approaches with a cloth in hand.

Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Greek Gods

Greek Goddesses

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Greek Roman Domain
Aphrodite Venus Love & Beauty
Apollo Apollo Music, Art, Poetry
Ares Mars War
Artemis Diana Hunting
Athena Minerva Wisdom & War
Demeter Ceres Harvest & Agriculture
Dionysus Bacchus Wine, Festivity, Madness
Hades Pluto Underworld & Dead
Hephaistos (Hephaestus) Vulcan Fire, Metalworking, Forges
Hera Juno Queen of the Gods, Marriage, Birth, Fertility
Hermes Mercury Messenger of the Gods, Travel, Merchants, Trade
Hestia Vesta Hearth, Home
Persephone Proserpina Underworld & Spring
Poseidon Neptune Seas, Rivers, Earthquakes
Zeus Jupiter King of the Gods, Sky, Thunder

 

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