Treasury of Greek Mythology - Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters

Erebus
Odysseus in
Tartarus 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1
Underworld god see Hades
Urania (Muse)
Uranus (Father Heaven) 8–9, 2.1
assisting Rhea
children 2.1–2.2, 2.3–2.4, 3.1–3.2
and Cronus 3.1, 14.1
emergence
marriage to Gaia 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
plots against him 2.1, 3.1
and Pontos
prophesy about Cronus 3.1, 7.1
soothing personality
usurping childbearing from
women
and Zeus
Uranus (planet) , 19

V

Variable stars
Venus (goddess) see Aphrodite
Venus (planet) 14.1, 14.2
Virgil

W

War god see Ares
War gods in other cultures 16.1, 16.2
Water gods
Water nymphs 7.1, 11.1
Wheelchairs 13.1, 13.2
Winds
Wine

Wine god see Dionysus
Wisdom goddess see Athena
Women

creation of
Dionysus’ affect on
learning from the gods
monthly cycles 18.1–18.2
power in childbearing
Wood nymphs

Z

Zephyr
Zeus (king of the gods) 8–9, 4.1

and Alcmena
and Aphrodite 14.1–14.2
Apollo-Hermes judgment
appointing Poseidon ruler of the
seas
and the Argonauts
and Artemis
battle with Cronus 4.1–4.2
birth
birth of Athena 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 12.1–12.2
breastplate
as cheat
children 9.1–9.2
and Danaë
and Demeter
Endymion’s endless sleep 18.1, 116–117, 18.2
freeing his siblings 5.1–5.2, 6.1
and Gaia 3.1, 4.1
and Hera 12.1–12.2, 79, 16.1
and Leto 10.1, 12.1
lightning bolt 4.1, 32, 4.2, 5.1
and Maia 12.1, 15.1

making Orion a constellation
marriages 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 19.1
and Metis 7.1, 12.1, 12.2
most-beautiful contest
and nymphs 7.1–7.2
prophesy that his son would
overthrow him
romances
as ruler of everything except sea
and Underworld 4.1, 5.1
and Semele 19.1–19.2
sense of entitlement
usurping childbearing from
women
vengefulness
war with Titans 4.1, 4.2