HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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heroes
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gods
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Detailed explanation-1: -There were twelve principal deities in the Greek pantheon. Foremost was Zeus, the sky god and father of the gods, to whom the ox and the oak tree were sacred; his two brothers, Hades and Poseidon, reigned over the Underworld and the sea, respectively.
Detailed explanation-2: -King of the gods is Zeus – or his Roman equivalent, Jupiter – who rules over Mount Olympus and is the god of thunder and lightning, as well as law and order.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first god in Greek mythology was Chaos. Gaia, the personification of the Earth, emerged shortly afterwards, along with Tartarus and Eros.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Herodotus it was the poets Homer and Hesiod, writing in the 8th century B.C., who gave the Greeks their gods.
Detailed explanation-5: -Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. The other gods are very important to your culture, but those three gods are probably the most important.