Who are the Ancient Greek Gods?
The ancient Greek gods are composed of many deities, minor and major. There are literally hundreds of minor ancient Greek gods. When Northern nomads raided small settlements predating the city-states, the population continued to worship their deities, with a central mother goddess figure. Nomads relied on weather gods like Zeus. To unite conflicting theologies, the ancient Greek gods representing weather would be married to the town’s mother goddess, which promoted harmony in worship and caused less resistance among the conquered townspeople.
The ancient Greek gods are composed of many deities, minor and major. There are literally hundreds of minor ancient Greek gods. When Northern nomads raided small settlements predating the city-states, the population continued to worship their deities, with a central mother goddess figure. Nomads relied on weather gods like Zeus. To unite conflicting theologies, the ancient Greek gods representing weather would be married to the town’s mother goddess, which promoted harmony in worship and caused less resistance among the conquered townspeople. This explanation will focus on the twelve major ancient Greek gods, called by the Greeks the Olympian gods, which came to be recognized as the most important deities, and were thence worshipped by the Romans prior to Christian conversion. Six of the ancient Greek gods were the offspring of the titan siblings, Chronos and Rhea, but only four of them ruled in Olympus. Hades rules the Underworld, and Poseidon is the god of the sea. Both are among the
