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- Most ancient Greeks recognized the twelve major Olympian gods and goddesses — Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Ares, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus —although philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used language that seems to assume a single transcendent deity.
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A Complete List of Greek Gods, Their Names & Their Realms of Influence. There have been many Greek gods mentioned across thousands of stories in Greek mythology – from the Olympian gods all the way down to the many minor gods.
Cruel and fickle, passionate and vindictive, jealous and insecure, petty and insane: the inhabitants of Mount Olympus represent an attempt by the ancient Greeks to explain the chaos of the universe through human nature. Thus, like every deity invented before and since, these gods and goddesses are embodiments of human solipsism.