Census Favorite of the main Greek gods/goddesses?

Who are your top 3 favorites of the main Greek gods and goddesses?



Gods of Ancient Greece By wolfanita



(D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths)

 

Poseidon because I like water.

 

Really it would be Nyx - but by extension, Dionysus is representational.

 

Hestia and Demeter always seemed the most drama-free out of them all. But my favorites have to be among the second-generation Olympians to decide between (just staying away from that Ares-Aphrodite-Hephaestus love triangle), so it's between Hermes, Athena, Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis and maybe Persephone.

 

This is the kind of "favorite" thread that will cause an epic war......

 

In original mythology, or how they show up in pop culture?

 

The ones that have the best Hades rule 34 art.

 

Spoiler

 

Poseidon. Created Atlantis.

 

Image doesn't load but I can deduce it from the URL.

 

Linking to Wiki pictures sucks

 

There's a BTS song about Dionysus AND I was a theatre kid, so I had only one choice.

 

I was gonna say Athena for her Badass Action Girl persona, but went with Aphrodite as there is a story I like. The frolicking of the gods was getting out of hand and Zeus blamed Aphrodite's influence. So he made her fall in love with some random farmer. Their child would go on to found the Roman Empire which doomed Greece and stole thir gods. Don't mess with Aphrodite

 

Hephaestus, Artemis, and Athena, cuz they seem to be the ones who mostly live up to their roles as gods and minimize the d-baggery common to many of their compatriots and also seem like decent people with some interesting stories.

 

I've come to embrace the Persephone myth, insofar as how she serves as a metaphor for how so many of us carry the experience of Hell throughout our waking lives. It's such a lyrical representation of PTSD. (More than anything, the Greeks and classic poets had a knack for elevating pain and trauma to the transcendental, thereby celebrating and sanctifying humanity.)

 

I want to go with Demeter, Artemis, and Poseidon, BUT my cat was named Hades and I loved her so much, so I feel I need to vote Hades...

 

Poseidon doing so well is actually a little surprising, he doesn't have that many myths attached to him, one of the more distant gods.

Oh... I won't burst the bubble... but let me just say that someone could definitely burst your bubble about those 3 being the most morally upright.

I was actually thinking yesterday why some other goddesses (like Artemis, Demeter, Persephone) weren't part of the Apple of Discord fight And if they were, what they would have offered Paris. Superior personal combat and hunting skills from Artemis? An end to famine for Troy from Demeter? A super-long life, or resurrected relative/friend, from Persephone? I feel like Hestia would have offered the best gift, probably a long, happy, content but humble life, or something like that.

 

The thing is, it didn't matter in the end. It was a setup from the beginning - Zeus wanted the Trojan War to happen to thin out the populace... and also his offspring. Remember how he overthrew his dad Cronus, who in turn overthrew his father Uranus? Yeah, Zeus knew that it was likely to happen to him as well. Eris was deliberately prevented from attending by Hermes, on Zeus' orders, to instigate the whole thing.

 

Athena first. Goddess of Wisdom. Usually helping people for more noble reasons than some of the others. But, she also punished pretty severely.
Apollo next.
The Zeus despite his many flaws.

I can't vote Poseidon. He was a jerk to Odysseus. Wouldn't let the man get home for 10 years, which drove his mother to suicide, saw his son grow up without a father and oh yeah lest we forget- resulted in the death of everyone on that boat except for Odysseus who the other gods tried to help where they could.

An Irish grudge had nothing against a Greek god's grudge. All because he didn't get a proper thank you.

 

I do appreciate Hades. Pulls the garbage job that actually requires work and mostly just quietly does it because somebody has to.