Oldest of these that we know of are the Iliad and the Odyssey that come from Homer.

Other poets we know of are: Virgil, Ovid, Hesiod, Aeshylus, Apuleius, Apollonius of

Rhodes, and Theocritus. These people told stories about the Gods, heroes, and their

adventures. In these stories the Gods have lives much like soap operas.

The creation of the world started with Chaos. Out of him came Gaea, Tartarus,

Eros, and Erebus. Gaea was the Earth goddess and without help she had Uranus,

Mountains ,and Pontus. Gaea Mated with her son, Uranus, and had five more children.

These children were Cyclope, Hecatonchires, Chronos, Coeus, and Oceanus. Uranus was

The sky god and the first ruler. Chronos later became the ruler when Gaea advised him to

castrate Uranus, who died from the wound or left the earth. Chronos and his wife Rhea

gave birth to the first Olymians. To ensure his safety as ruler, Chronos ate his children.

To protect her children, Rhea tricked Chronos into eating a rock instead of Zeus. The

rock that Chronos swallowed made him sick and forced him to puke up the other

and Maia. Since he was the fastest of the gods he was Zeus's messanger. He is the god

failed and was and was punished. She never revolted again. Zeus and Heras brothers and

goddess of wisdom. Ares was the god of war. He disliked both his parents. He is

Some common words found in the essay are:
Demeter Hestia, Hephaestus Athena, Zeus Maia, Oceanus Uranus, Leto Apollo, Olympians Zeus, Rhodes Theocritus, Odyssey Olympian, Mount Olympus, Persaphone Hades, olympian gods, goddess wisdom, stories gods, mount olympus, greek gods, greedy god, artemis goddess, ruler chronos,
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