GREEK NAME

 ROMAN EQUIVALENT

ROLE IN MYTHOLOGY

Aphrodite

Venus

Goddess of beauty and sexual desire
(Roman mythology: goddess of gardens and fields)

Apollo

Apollo

God of prophecy, medicine, and archery
(later, known as god of the sun)

Ares

Mars

God of war

Artemis

Diana

Goddess of the hunt (late Greek/Roman mythology: goddess of moon)

Asclepius

Aesculapius

God of medicine

Athena

Minerva

Goddess of arts and crafts, and war; helper of heroes
(late Greek/Roman mythology: goddess of wisdom)

Cronus

Saturn

God of the sky; ruler of the Titans (Roman mythology: god of agriculture)

Demeter

Ceres

Goddess of grain

Dionysus

Bacchus

God of wine and vegetation

Eros

Cupid

God of love

Gaea

Tellus

Mother Earth

Hades

Pluto

God of the underworld; lord of the dead

Hephaestus

Vulcan

God of fire; blacksmith of the gods

Hera

Juno Goddess of marriage and childbirth; protector of married women;
queen of the gods

Hermes

 Mercury Messenger of the gods/ god of luck
Hestia

Vesta

 Guardian of the home
Hypnos Somnus god of sleep
Poseidon Neptune God of the sea and earthquakes
Rhea Ops Wife of Cronus, Mother Goddess
Uranus Uranus God of the sky, father of the Titans
Zeus Jupiter Ruler of the Gods, god of weather