Hephaestus is the God of fire, volcanos, and the forge. Also known as the ugly god. He was born crippled and weak but eventually grew to be one of the tallest Gods. He has forged many great weapons for Gods, demigods, and mortals. He was predominately worshipped in Athens but also in forges all around Greece. He is often pictured as leaning on his anvil because of his lame leg.

Here you can learn about The Greek god Dionysus and the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

Leto was pregnant at the time, and she gave birth to twins Apollo and Artemis. Much later, Zeus assigned Apollo the job of taking the sun across the sky in his chariot and bringing the moon into the sky at night. Apollo is a young man with curly golden hair. Apollo is the god of sun,healing,music and truth.

The Greek Goddess Hera was known as the goddess of. She was married to the head god Zeus and was known as the queen of Olympus. She was also the sister of Zeus. Her Roman name, Juno and her Greek name Hera both mean Goddess of marriage and of women. The great hero Hercules who was her half son. When he was little Hera put snakes in his crib out of jelousy of how great and mighty Hercules was. Yet he survived the many different snakes.