Greek Gods

1. In works of art, she is often shown carrying her bow and arrows, surrounded by her hounds.(Diana)
4. The legend of her birth is told in Hesiod's Theogony.(Venus)
7. Although she sometimes struck down those who showed arrogance or disrespect.(Minerva)
8. During the Renaissance, he was featured as a character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
9. However, she was not embraced by medieval or Renaissance artists the way many other Greek and Roman gods and goddesses were.(Ceres)
11. Her story is recognized well enough that she is mentioned in passing in many works, including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises.(Kirke)
12. He is later mentioned in works of the Greek playwright Euripides and the Roman poet Ovid.(Bachuss)

1. Because of his famous beauty and rather tragic love affairs with goddesses.
2. He first appears in Greek literature in the Iliad, Homer's epic, or long, grand-scale poem about the Trojan War.(Phoebus)
3. One of the most famous images is Gustave Doré's engraved illustration for Dante's Divine Comedy.
5. Although her story was widely known among the ancient Greeks, it was the subject of relatively few existing works of art and literature.
6. He was also a popular subject of ancient Roman authors such as Ovid and Seneca.
7. He also appears as a motorcycle-riding tough guy in Rick Riordan's 2005 The Lightning Thief.(Mars)
10. One of the most famous images of Saturn is Francisco Goya's grisly painting Saturn Devouring One of His Children.(Saturn)