CLAA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Clotho, Bisexuality, Nereid
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The 12 olympians: zeus, hera, and their children. Zeus shares his power with his brothers: zeus = sky, poseidon = sea, hades = underworld. The roman names for the gods: zeus = jupiter, hera = juno, poseidon = neptune, hades = pluto, hestia = vesta, hephaestus = vulcan, ares = mars, aphrodite = venus, athena = minerva. Hestia, goddess of the hearth and its fire: she rejected both poseidon and apollo and remained a virgin, she is the goddess of chastity and the goddess of hearth and its sacred fire. The transmission of the sacred fire represented a bond of affection and kinship. The authority was usually controlled by fate or the fate of women or aphrodite. Aphrodite had power over all the gods and only. Athena, artemis, and hestia defied her subjections: when hera, poseidon, and athena bound zeus in chains, it was thetis who rescued him. Children of zeus and hera: eileithyia, hebe, hephestus, and.
