Republic of the Philippines

Limay Polytechnic College

Brgy. Reformista, Limay, Bataan
A.Y 2022 - 2023

THE LESSER GOD

OF OLYMPUS
AND
EARTH
Submitted by: Malibiran, John Ezekeil M.
ABSTRACT
 There were other divinities in heaven
beside the twelve great Olympians.
The Lesser God of Olympus
❖ EROS
● God of love, Cupid in Latin
● He was not Aprhrodite's son,
but merely her occasionally
compain.
● He was often represented as
blindfolded, because love is
often blind.
● Attending upon him was
ANTEROS, said sometimes
to be the avenger of slighted
love, also HIMEROS or
login, and HYMEN the God
of the Wedding Feast.
❖ HEBE
● She was the Goddess of
Youth.
● Daughter of Zues and Hera.
● She appears as cupbearer to
the gods.
● Young Trojan prince who
was seized and carried up to
Olympus by Zues eagle.
❖ IRIS
● Goddess if the Rainbow
● Messenger of The Gods (for
Iliad he was he was only
messenger)
TWO BONDS OF LOVELY SISTERS
❖ GRACES (Daughter of Zues and
Eurynome)
❖ AGLIA (Splendor) - she married
Hephaestus, they are not treated as
separate personalities, but always
together, a triple incarnation of grace
and beauty.
❖ EUPHROSYNE (Mirth)
❖ THALIA (Good Cheer)
❖ MUSES (The daughters of Zues
and Mnemosyne (Memory)
● Clio
● Urania
● Melpomene of tragedy
● Thalia of comedy
● Terpsichore of the dance
● Calliope of epic poetry
● Erato of love - poetry
● Polyhyme of song to the godz
● Euterpe of Lyric Poetry
"Their hearts are set upon song and their
spirit free from Cure"
The Lesser God of Earth
Earth was called the all - mother, but she
was not really a divinity.
❖ DEMETER (CERES)
● The goddess of the Corn
● Goddess of the fertility of the
earth and harvest
● Protector of marriage and
social order
● Daughter of Cronus and Rhea
❖ DIONYSUS (BACCHUS)
● The god of wine
● Were the supreme deities of
the earth
● And of great importance in
Greek and Roman Mythology
❖ PAN
● He was Hermes son
● A noisy, merry god
● The Homeric Hymn in his
honor calls him
● He was part animal too
● With a goat's horn and a
goat's hooves instead of feet
 ● He was also the goatherd's
god and the shepherd's god
● His home also are all wild
places
● He loves arcady
● A wonderful musician
● Always in love with one
nymph or another
❖ SILENUS
● He was sometimes said to be
Pan's son
● Sometimes his brother, a son
of Hermes
● Jovial fat old man
● Associated with Bacchus and
Pan
● He became a devoted
follower of Bacchus
❖ CASTOR & POLLUX
(POLYDEUCES)
● Half of their time on earth
and half in heaven
● Sons of Leda
● Represented as being Gods
● Special protector of sailors
● They were especially
honored in Rome
❖ CASTOR
● Brother of Clytemnestra
● A mortal who won a kind of
half - and - half immortality
❖ POLLUX
● Brother of Helen
● Held to be divine immortal
❖ SILENI
● Part man and part horse
● Walk with 2 legs, not four
● Often had horses hooves
instead of feet
● Sometimes horse ears and
always horses tails
❖ SATYRS
● Goat - men
● They had their home in the
wild places of the earth
❖ Goddesses of the Woodland
OREADS
● Nymphs of the mountains
DRYADS
● HAMADRYADS
● Nymphs of trees
● Their life was in each case
bound up with that of her tree
❖ AEOLUS
● King of the winds
● Live on the earth
● An island Aeolia was his
home
● Viceroy of the gods
❖ Four Chief Winds
Borea (North Wind)
● Latin Aquilo
Zephyr (West wind)
● Latin Favonius
Notus (South wind)
● Latin Auster
Eurus (East wind)
Human Nor Divine on the Earth
❖ CENTAURS
● They were half man, half
horse
● Savage creatures
● (CHIRON) He was known
everywhere for his goodness
and his wisdom
❖ GORGONS
● Earth dwellers
● There were 3 and 2 of them
were immortal
● They were dragon (creatures
with wings)
 ● (PHORCYS) - son of the sea ● They had enchanting voice's
and the earth was their father ● It was not known what they
❖ GRAIAE looked like
● Three gray women who had ❖ THE PATES
but one eye between then ● They were assigned to not
● They lived on the further abode whenever in heaven or
bank of ocean in the earth
❖ SIRENS ● (Moirae) Greek
● Lived on an island in the sea ● (Parcae) Latin