This is an introduction to ancient Greek gods and their worship, as well as a few myths and mystery cults.

1. Greek Gods

3. Primeval Gods

4. Gaia, c. 410-100 BCE

5. Titans

6. Kronos and Rhea, c. 475-435 BCE

7. Olympian Gods

8. Zeus, c. 470-460 BCE

9. Hera, c. 500-475 BCE

10. Poseidon, 3rd c. CE

11. (Hades), c. 330-310 BCE

12. Demeter, c. 350-340 BCE

13. (Hestia), c. 6th c. BCE

14. Aphrodite, 1st c. CE (Pompeii)

15. Athena, c. 525 BCE

16. Hephaistos, c. 430-420 BCE

17. Apollo, c. 470 BCE

18. Artemis, c. 500-459 BCE

19. Ares, c. 515-500 BCE

20. Hermes, c. 500-450 BCE

21. Dionysus, c. 410-100 BCE

22. Hesiod’s Theogony and Works
and Days
Early 7th c. BCE

23. The Golden Age
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530

24. Prometheus, c. 530 BCE

25. Hephaistos Creates Pandora, c. 475-425 BCE

26. Cultic Worship

27. Offering in the Form of a Temple from the
Temple of Apollo, Dreros, c. 750s BCE

28. Heracles and Apollo Struggle for the
Delphic Tripod, c. 520 BCE

29. Ritual Vessel on a Tripod, 1st c. CE

30. Votive Offerings from Olympia, 8th-7th c. BCE

31. Votive Statues from Ayia Irini
Sanctuary, Cyprus, c. 700-550 BCE

32. Boar Sacrifice, c. 510 BCE

33. Parthenon Frieze, 447-443 BCE

34. Mystery Cults

35. Demeter and Persephone and
the Eleusinian Mysteries

36. The Rape of Persephone
Peter Paul Rubens, 1636

37. The Rape of Proserpina
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1622

38. Demeter Mourning Persephone
Evelyn de Morgan, 1906

39. Proserpina
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

40. The Return of Persephone
Frederic Leighton, 1891

41. Persephone, c. 330-310 BCE

42. Great Eleusis Relief: Demeter, Triptolemos,
Persephone, c. 440-430 BCE

43. The Dionysian Mysteries

44. The Villa of Mysteries
Pompeii, 1st c. CE

55. The Bacchanal

56. Bacchanal on a Roman Sarcophagus,
2nd c. CE

58. Bacchanal
Titian, 1519

60. Midas and Bacchus
Nicolas Poussin, 1630

62. The Triumph of Bacchus
Nicolas Poussin, 1636

63. Dance of the Peasants
Peter Paul Rubens, 1638

64. Oracles

65. Priestess of Delphi
John Collier, 1891
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