Shrinking Banshee presents:
The Olympian Gods
My Olympians page is
a continual work in progress. I am always looking for new sites
to link to any of the Gods' or Godesses' pages. The goal of this
section is to include the myth behind each God, and whoa nellie
are there a lot of them, to have a picture from an ancient
source, as well as pictures of the actors and actressess that
have portrayed them on either Xena: Warrior Princess or Hercules:
The Legendary Journeys, to include a short bio of the actor and
links to other sites focusing on the god or actors.
As you can imagine
it's ambitious and time consuming, but I will persevere until
each God has his or her own little chapter in cyberdom. Stay
tuned for updates and email me at shrinkingbanshee@msn.com to be added to any page.
Warning: Many of the pages below contain tasteful
nudity, displayed in ancient statues and paintings. If this sort
of thing offends you please avoid this section. I would never
display anything I considered pornography on my site, and hope
you will find these classic images as beautifully done as I have.
Gods and Monsters
Aeolus,
God of the winds
- Amphipolis, Athenian colony
near the Strymon Vale
- Amphitrite,
sea goddess, wife of Poseidon, mother of Triton
- Aphaia, Aeginan Goddess of
the Hunt
- Aphrodite,
Goddess of Love, beauty and procreation, Alexandra Tydings Links updated 3/23/01
- Apollo,
God of Prophecy, poetry, music, archery and healing, Scott Michaelson links updated 8/16/00
- Ares,
God of War, Kevin Smith, Mark
Newnam, Reb Brown
- Artemis,
Goddess of the moon, hunting and fertility, Rhonda McHardy and Josephine Davison
- Asclepius,
God of healing
- Athena,
Goddess of wisdom, war and weaving, protectress of
Athens, Paris Jefferson (X), Amanda
Lister (H), Jane Fullerton-Smith (YH) Links Updated 6/2/01
- Atlas,
titan, held the world on his back for siding with the
titans and not Zeus, David Press
- Bacchus, God of Wine Anthony Ray Parker and Kevin Smith
- Banshees, Michelle
Huirama and Nicola Brown
- Bellerophon, Son of Artemis, Craig Parker
- Boreus,
God of the north wind
- Centaur, Colin Moy, David Aston, Paul Gittins, Jeff Boyd, Reece Rodewyk, Phil Adams, Cliff
Curtis, Peter Muller, Mark Ferguson, Julian
Arahanga, Tony Blackett, James
Croft, James Gaylyn and Clint
Sharplin
- Charon,
boatsman of the underworld, Michael
Hurst, Peter Rowley Pictures
added 8/7/00
- Coeus,
titan of intelligence, father of Leto
- Crius,
titan, Eddie Campbell
- Cronos,
titan, castrated Uranus to gain rule of the Titans,
father of Zeus
- Cybele,
Goddess of fertility and the mountains
- Cyclops, Richard Moll
and Patrick Wilson
- Death,
Goddess of Cer, (Violent death),
Celesta, Belinda Waymouth, Theresa Healey and Kate Hodge
- Deimos, son of Ares and Aphrodite, Joel Tobeck
- Demeter,
Goddess of fruit, crops and vegetation, Sarah Wilson
- Dike
(Iustitia), Goddess of justice
- Dione,
titan, Goddess of the Oak
- Dionysus,
God of Wine
- Doris,
daughter of Oceanus and wife of Nereus
- Eileithyia,
Goddess of childbirth
- Eirene
(Pax), Goddess who personified peace
- Eos
(Aurora), Goddess of the dawn
- Epaphus,
son of Zeus and Io, founded the city of Memphis in Egypt
- Epimetheus,
stupid titan
- Erebus,
personification of darkness
- Eris
(Discordia), Goddess whose name means "discord"
or "Strife", Meighan
Desmond (updated)
- Eros
(Cupid), God of love and desire, Karl Urban links
and more filmography added 8/16/00
- Eunomia,
Goddess who personified discipline or good government
- Eurydice, Nymph,
Morgan Fairhead
- Fates,
Goddesses who supervised fate,
Elizabeth Pendergrast, Micaela Daniel, Chloe Jordan,
Rebecca Kopacka, Samantha Adriaanse
- Furies Asa Lindh, Graciela Heredia, Celi
Foncesca, Ann Marie Dennis
- Gaia,
earth goddess, titan
- Graces
(Gratiae), a trio of goddesses associated with Aphrodite
- Hades,
God of the underworld, Erik Thomson
and Stephen Lovatt
- Hebe
(Juventas), Goddess who was a cup-bearer for
the olympian gods, goddess of youth
- Hecate,
Goddess of magic, ghosts and witchcraft
- Helios
(Sol), God of the sun, Phil Grieve
- Hephaestus,
God of fire, Julian Garner and Jason Hoyte
- Hesperus
(Vesper), God of the evening star
- Hera,
Goddess of marriage and women, queen of heaven, Meg Foster
- Herakles, Son of Zeus, Kevin Sorbo,
Hercules God Of Golf
- Hermes,
God of science and commerce, messenger of the gods, Murray Keane links
added 8/16/00
- Hestia
(Vesta), Goddess of the home and hearth, Jan Hellriegel, links updated 8/16/00
- Horae (seasons), Dike, Eunomia, Eirene
- Hyperion,
titan of light, early sun god, Mark
Rafferty
- Iapetus,
titan
- Io,
daughter of Inachus
- Iolaos,
Herakles' charioteer, Michael Hurst
and Dean O'Gorman
- Iris,
Goddess of the rainbow, messenger of the gods
- Leto, mother of Apollo and
Artemis
- Love, The
Birth of Love, as related by Plato oops, this page has
disappeared, I'll have it back up soon.
- Metis, titaness of the fourth
day and the planet
- Mercury, presided over all
wisdom and knowledge
- Minos I, King of Crete, son of Zeus, Robert
Pollock
- Minotaur
- Mnemosyne,
titan of memory, mother of the muses, Jan Hellriegel and Donogh Rees
- Morpheus,
God of dreams
- Muses
- Nemesis,
goddess of vengeance, Karen Witter,
Kimberley Joseph, Charmaine Guest and Teresa Hill
- Nereids, nymphs of the sea, two
of the better known are Thetis and Amphitrite
- Nereus, sea god, the Old Man of
the Sea. He is known as a gentle and trustworthy god, who
never lies and is full of kind thoughts. He is the son of
Pontus. With his wife Doris he fathers fifty lovely
daughters, known as the Nereids in his honor.
- Nike, Goddess of victory
- Nyx (Night)
- Oceanus,
sea god, Titan, Andrew Kovacevich
- Orpheus, God of Music, Matthew
Chamberlain and Kieren Hutchison
- Pan, God of pastures, forest,
flocks, and herds
- Persephone,
Goddess of Springtime, Queen of the underworld, Andrea Croton
- Phoebe, titan of the moon,
mother of Leto
- Pleiades,
daughters of Atlas
- Poseidon,
god of the sea, Charles Siebert
- Prometheus, wisest titan, could
foretell the future, John Freeman
- Psyche,
Susan Ward
- Rhadamanthus, son of Zeus and
Europa, after his death he was made on of the three
judges of the underworld.
- Rhea,
wife of Cronus, titan, mother of the gods, Joy Van Uden and Sonia Gray Links
added 8/16/00
- Satyrs
- Selene, moon goddess
- Sirens
- Strife, son of Ares, Joel Tobeck (under construction)
- Teiresias,
prophet of Thebes
- Theia (Thea), a titan, Amanda Tollemache
- Themis, titan of justice and
order, mother of fates and the Horae
- Thethys, wife of Oceanus, Titan
- Triton,
the trumpeter of the sea, Bruce
Hopkins
- Uranus, sky god, first ruler,
titan
- Zeus,
Overlord of the Olympian gods and goddesses, lord of
heaven, Charles Keating, Roy Dotrice and Peter Vere-Jones, Anthony Quinn
- Listing of the Gods with Latin
Equivalents
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