Top 10 Gods and Monsters
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1. Zeus
The Pantheon’s supreme god ruled the skies and fathered hundreds of heroes with his supernatural libido.
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2. Poseidon
The god of the sea was Zeus’s brother – and sometimes his greatest rival.
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3. Athena
Zeus’s daughter was a virgin warrior goddess of wisdom and philosophy. She was also goddess of weaving and patron of Athens.
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4. Apollo
The handsome god of music and poetry presided over the Muses.
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5. Artemis
Apollo’s twin sister was goddess of the moon and the hunt, and remained a virgin.
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6. Aphrodite
Voluptuous Aphrodite was Artemis’s polar opposite – the temperamental goddess of love had dozens of affairs.
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7. The Minotaur
Crete’s Queen Pasiphae conceived this bull-headed, human-bodied monster with a bull sent by Poseidon.
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8. The Cyclops
The most famous of these one-eyed giants is Polyphemus, the monster whom Odysseus blinded in The Odyssey .
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9. The Sirens
The beautiful sirens with their bewitching songs nearly lured Odysseus’s sailors to their deaths on a rocky shore.
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10. Medusa
The gaze of this snake-headed gorgon turned men to stone. Perseus defeated her only with the help of Athena’s gleaming shield, in which he could safely see his foe.
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