1. Hermes
1.1. Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods.
1.1.1. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide" — a conductor of souls into the afterlife.
1.2. He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals.
1.2.1. In myth, Hermes functioned as the emissary and messenger of the gods, and was often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad.
1.3. He is regarded as "the divine trickster," for which Homer offers the most popular account in his Hymn to Hermes.
2. Hephaestus
2.1. As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus.
2.2. Hephaestus is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes.
2.2.1. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother because of his deformity or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.
2.3. Hephaestus' Roman counterpart is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or he was Hera's parthenogenous child.
3. Aphrodite
3.1. Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. She was syncretized with the Roman goddess Venus.
3.1.1. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer.
3.2. Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna.
3.2.1. In Laconia, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess.
4. Kings of the Olympus
4.1. Zeus
4.1.1. King of the Gods God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice
4.1.2. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.
4.1.3. His mythology and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Indra, Dyaus and Thor.
4.2. Hera
4.2.1. Goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and family
4.2.2. Hera is the goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and mythology, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister and wife of Zeus.
4.2.2.1. One of Hera's defining characteristics is her jealous and vengeful nature against Zeus' numerous lovers and illegitimate offspring, as well as the mortals who cross her.
4.2.3. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hera rules over Mount Olympus as queen of the gods.
4.2.4. A matronly figure, Hera served as both the patroness and protectress of married women, presiding over weddings and blessing marital unions.
5. Gods of war
5.1. Athena
5.1.1. Goddess of wisdom, olives, weaving, and battle strategy.
5.1.1.1. She's usually shown in art wearing a helmet and holding a spear. Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion.
5.1.2. Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
5.1.3. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name.
5.2. Ares
5.2.1. God of War
5.2.2. Ares is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.
5.2.3. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war and is the personification of sheer brutality and bloodlust.
5.2.3.1. In contrast to his sister, the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.
5.2.4. Erotes (Eros and Anteros), Phobos, Deimos, Phlegyas, Harmonia, Enyalios, Thrax, Oenomaus, and Amazons are his children
6. The twins
6.1. Apollo
6.1.1. God of oracles, healing, archery, music and arts, sunlight, knowledge, herds and flocks, and protection of the young
6.1.1.1. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
6.1.1.1.1. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
6.1.2. Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.
6.1.2.1. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods.
6.2. Artemis
6.2.1. Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity.
6.2.1.1. Much like Athena and Hestia, Artemis preferred to remain a maiden and is sworn never to marry.
6.2.2. Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the patron and protector of young girls, and was believed to bring disease upon women and relieve them of it.
6.2.3. Artemis was worshipped as one of the primary goddesses of childbirth and midwifery along with Eileithyia.
7. Poseidon
7.1. Poseidon was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes.
7.1.1. In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however it seems that he was originally a god of the waters.
7.1.2. He is often regarded as the tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he created springs which are related with the word horse.
7.1.2.1. He had also the cult title "earth shaker".
7.1.2.1.1. His Roman equivalent is Neptune.