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hestia. she's the nicest and the only one able to keep her head on straight at all times. even tho i also like athena. o well, i voted for hestia.

I love Artemius she is my favorite! biggrin

I prefer Mnemosyne, but I guess she's a Titan, and therefor not on the list. I guess she does reside on Olympus, with her daughters, but whatever. Here's my thinking(and Mnemosyne's) on the listed ones.

Well, Hera. She seems to be the goddess of true loyalty, sticking to Zeus for that while. And after what happened to her when he got her, rape. She covered it up by marrying him. The Queen of the heavens, killing all those mistresses and their children. It sort of seems as if she's a maniac killer, rampaging through Ancient Greece killing babies, or at least trying to. The mothers do get a bad break, though. I think the only person that wasn't really scarred by Hera's wrath was Leda, the one that was given some little ducklings. She is intelligent, though. She knows her husband quite well. Either a bull, a satyr or a cloud, she knows what's been happening. But she seems to be a trickster, too. Like using Hypnos while she does her dirty work. Awesome plan, Hera! She has also done some wrong, too. Someone did fall for her, but she refused. Loyalty right there. (7.5 out of ten)

Demeter, the awesome goddess of agriculture. Ah, she's the mother of mythology, isn't she? Everyone knows after her glorious daughter Persephone was abducted(without her knowing. Nice job Hades and Zeus!), she wandered the earth searching for her. The world was barren. But what she did during that time wandering is to be said. She wandered into a home, where she was given the task to take care of two kids. A few nights of babysitting, she wanted to make one immortal. A baby being immortal.. Anyways, so she coated him with nectar and ambrosia, and put him over a fire to burn off the mortal flesh. But then the mother found out what was happening, and pulled the baby away, rendering mortal once more. But don't think it's a sad story, the other son was taught how to plow. Next, she asked Persephone's caretakers to help her in her searching quest. They refused, and with anger she turned them into sirens. There was this guy who started cutting down trees in her sacred forest, and she gave him a curse where he would be unable to be full, eating everything, including his whole palace. That cannibal! So, you seriously don't want to get onto Demeter's bad side. She was raped in the form of a horse by Poseidon, and made two immortal foal kids. (8.9 out of ten)

Hestia. There isn't really much about her, trust me. Thing is, she was the goddess of hearth and home. She was given the task of keeping a fire alive in Olympus. And every household were to have a flame, dedicated to her, that was not allowed to burn out. During sacrifices, she was the first to be praised. So, in Ancient Greece, she was pretty important. She was the oldest child of Cronus and Rhea, and she was an Olympian before Dionysus came, and she descended down to minor goddess because she wanted to keep peace. She isn't much of a party go-er, but one party night she fell asleep(not from alcohol, the rest of the people did of course), and a stumbling Priapos walked over to her, and tried to rape her. Thing is, Hestia is chaste, and will be for the rest of her immortal life. So, when she awoke to see the god descending, she cursed him. Yeah, the goddess of fire can show off a strong flame! (6.9 out of ten)

Athena, virgin goddess of war, wisdom, and most crafting things. This is why many gods wanted her as a wife, but she said she would remind chaste, and would not marry. With Artemis, she showed female independence. Now, Athena's myths are usually the ones where she's super smart or super mad. Now, she was a daughter of Zeus. Just Zeus, because Metis, her "mother" had been swallowed. Metis was destined to have a male heir that would rise above Zeus, and unlike Cronus, he ate his wife. Anyways, she was constantly having a rivalry with the god of bloody war, Ares. The two didn't really like each other. Another person she didn't like was Arachne. She was a seamstress, supposedly better than the goddess. Which is sort of bad because she invented it! So the goddess challenged her to a go, and then revealed what the two had made. Arachne's was far better. Win or lose, you never want to be in a contest with a deity. (Like Myrasas, still hanging)She broke out, and turned the mortal into a poor spider, that was human size.(Sounds like something from a horror movie, right?) Then there was Medusa. Poseidon and her were having something in her temple, not good. Like her sisters, Medusa was turned into the mortal gorgon. That's why she helped Perseus kill her, for she hated what she did in her temple. She has also tried to be raped, like Hestia, but from the god of forge. While examining his wares, he fell in love, and sort of tried to rape her. Though the a-hem fell into the ground, making Gaea pregnant. Then Ericthonious came, the new King of Athens. Speaking of Athens, why does Athena hate Poseidon even more? They battled for Athens. She gave them an olive tree. He gave them water. I wonder who won. She created a lot during her time, like sowing, the chariot, and such. (9 out of ten)

Ah, the beautiful goddess of love and beauty! Aphrodite, made from the bits of Uranus(or Zeus and Dione, whatever you believe), sprang from the sea as probably the hottest thing you laid you're eyes upon. She became the goddess of beauty for that specific reason. She held it and cherished it, and hated mortals that were better than her in looks. This is where Psyche comes in play, right? But she ends up liking her, as her son Eros marries her. She was forced to marry Hephaestus, but they divorced when she went with his hotter brother, Ares. She also tried it with Hermes, god of luck and travel, making Tyche(goddess of luck), Rhodos, Peitho(goddess of persuasion),Eunomia, and Hermaphroditus(see her name in there?). She also tried Dionysus, and many other mortals like Adonis. Though current myths consider her a dumb blond, not indeed. She isn't love sick, either. She just loves love. She helped when a man begged for the heart of Atlanta, and also used her devious plans to get Helen for Paris. It all comes back to the goddess of love and beauty. (8.1 out of ten)

Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and birth. Weird, I know. But anyways, she was born first(though the Percy Jackson books say she's the younger one) out of the two twin archers. Her mother, Leto, was having a tricky time with Hera at the time, but Artemis helped her make birth to Apollo, her brother. The three ventured the earth, looking for shelter. As Apollo grew tall and mighty by some ambrosia and nectar, Artemis preferred to stay small. They encountered some monsters on the way, which the two helped defeat for their tired Titaness mother. Once arriving at Olympus, she asked her father for a few things. To remain chaste, ("Okay, sweetie."), for a few thousand nymphs to hunt with("Uh-hun."), and for all her followers to remain chaste. Like Athena, she was tied with independence of women, and was never beaten by any man. That lead to Orion, the great hunter. Their competitive stride against each other lead to a sort of relationship, the only one she had after her brother. They hunted together, and they soon became great friends. Now, how he was killed has two stories. One was Apollo getting worried for his sister, so he asked her to hit a moving object in the water. She shrugged, no problem! She lined her bow up, and hit the target right in the head. Orion's head. Then there was Gaea getting mad at him for killing all her children, and sending a scorpion to bit him, killing him. Either way, the goddess put him up into the skies, as the Orion constellation. Her relationship with men was still scarce, and when hunting in the forest, a man stumbled upon the goddess and her followers. Thing was, they were bathing, a.k.a they were naked. He didn't have enough time to turn away, and Artemis turned him into a stag, where his own hunting dogs killed him. Athena and Artemis are so nice when it comes to punishment! (9 out of ten)

H e b e, if you don't know what the ****** are. She was the goddess of youth, and was the cupbearer of the gods until Ganymede came along. Once Herakles came, he took her as his wife, and they had to kids, the guardians of Olympus. Not much is really known about her, she didn't even really curse someone. (7.6 out of ten)

Persephone, I seriously don't want to type a paragraph about her. (4.5 out of ten, she's old news. But a good character to write about!)

And then, the two others are awesome, but not much info is about them. Unless you want to hear about Alcamene, or maybe even Enyo's relationships with Ares..

Wait... who is it that's name is *******?

H e b e. Somehow it's a bad word. She's the goddess of youth, the wife of Heracles.

H e b e is the daughter of Zeus and Hera, making her Herakles' half sister AND step sister. And also his first cousin, and, given he is the great grandson of Perseus, that also makes her his great-great-grand aunt and his...second cousin once removed?

It's a racist slang against Jewish people, a contraction of Hebrew.