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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Ares

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Ares, the Olympian god of war and defense and figure behind violence. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles, pictures, myths, and his places of...
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Artemis

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon and protector of expectant women and the young. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of her name, other titles,...
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Athena

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Athena, the Greek goddess of Wisdom, Skill and War. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of her name, other titles, pictures, myths, and her places of worship.
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Demeter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and vegetation. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of her name, other titles, pictures, myths, and her places of worship.
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Hades

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Hades, Greek god of the underworld. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles, pictures, myths, and his places of worship.
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Hephaestus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Hephaestus, the Greek God of Metallurgy and the Smith of the Olympian Gods. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles, pictures, myths, and his...
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Hera

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage and family and the protector of married women. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of her name, other titles, pictures, myths, and...
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Hestia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, home and family. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronounciations of her name, other titles, pictures, myths, and her worshipers.
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Poseidon

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas, the horses, and the earthquakes. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles, pictures, myths, and his places of...
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Greek Gods: Olympian Gods: Zeus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Zeus, the supreme god in Ancient Greece, the father of the Olympian gods, and the ruler of mankind. It provides biographical information, background, English and Greek pronunciations of his name, other titles,...
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Greek Gods: First Greek Gods: Theogony: Chaos

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the first Greek gods who were created out of Chaos, a primeval state of existence. Learn how it all began and see Chaos' family tree.
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Greek Gods: The First Greek Gods and Goddesses: "Theogony"

For Students 9th - 10th
"Theogony," a famous poem, by Hesiod explains the beginnings of Greek Mythology's first Greek Gods and Goddesses. From Chaos came Gaea (Earth), Uranus (the Heaven), and Eros (Desire) who produced the Titans and from them, the Olympian gods.
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Greek Gods: Greek Mythology: The Ancient Greek Titans

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the ancient Greek Titans, a race of primordial, powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. It offers links to individual Titans including the superior, main, and others.
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Greek Gods: Deucalion's Flood and the Creation of the New Human Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this Greek Mythology story of the destruction of the earth by flood. Try comparing it to the story of Noah's Ark from the Bible.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Nereus, a Marine Deity

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Nereus, a truthful and good-natured marine deity, who went from being half fish and half man to fully human and was father to 50 beautiful mermaids, the Nereids.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Proteus, Marine Deity From Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Proteus, a gentle marine deity from Egypt and the personification of the waves who received the gift of prophecy.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Sirens, Special Singing Sea Nymphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Sirens, sea nymphs with the power to seduce sailors with their singing. See the pictures and read about Odysseus experience with them.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Triton, a Sea God and Merman

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Triton, a powerful sea god, merman, and the messenger of Poseidon, who possessed the gift of prophecy.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Amazons, Mighty Female Warriors

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Amazons, mighty female warriors who fought against the Greeks during the Trojan War.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Cabeiri, Evil Demons of Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Cabeiri, pygmy-like evil demons of fire who shook the earth and expelled fire, but were the protectors of sailors, the solvers of calamities, and the demons who punished perjury and profanity.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Charites (Joy, Charm, Beauty)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Charites or Graces, three lovely goddesses: Aglaia, the Grace of Beauty, Euphrosyne, the Grace of Delight, and Thalia, the Grace of Blossom.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: The Erinyes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Erinyes (also known by the Romans as Furies), three sister goddesses of revenge and retribution. See pictures depicting their heads wreathed with serpents, burning breath, and poisonous blood was dripping from their eyes.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Fates (Moirae)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the three Fates (Moirae), Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who were the spinners of the thread of life determining the span of each human's life.
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Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: The Hours (Horae)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Hours (Horae), the fruitful goddesses of the Seasons and the guards of Mount Olympus, who are the personifications of the seasons.