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Athens : 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.
2. Poseidon

The god of the sea was Zeus’s brother – and sometimes his greatest rival.
3. Athena

Zeus’s daughter was a virgin warrior goddess of wisdom and philosophy. She was also goddess of weaving and patron of Athens.
4. Apollo

The handsome god of music and poetry presided over the Muses.
5. Artemis

Apollo’s twin sister was goddess of the moon and the hunt, and remained a virgin.
6. Aphrodite

Voluptuous Aphrodite was Artemis’s polar opposite – the temperamental goddess of love had dozens of affairs.
7. The Minotaur

Crete’s Queen Pasiphae conceived this bull-headed, human-bodied monster with a bull sent by Poseidon.
8. The Cyclops

The most famous of these one-eyed giants is Polyphemus, the monster whom Odysseus blinded in The Odyssey .
9. The Sirens

The beautiful sirens with their bewitching songs nearly lured Odysseus’s sailors to their deaths on a rocky shore.
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.