The most powerful god.

[The White Dagger]

Besides zeus poesiden and Hades who is the most powerful god.


I would say athena because she has a lot of influence.  

[Akherontis]

How do you define 'powerful'? Greek Mythology is not a videogame and tends to lack statistical attributes for its characters. And Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are not necessarily the most powerful gods, just the highest ranked. Even then, you have to consider deities like the Fates or Eros, so there's no real basis for comparison of power. The question is impossible to answer.  

[Philo_Clio]

While Akherontis is right, theres also the factor of which ancient source people tend to follow... example Hesoid said Hecate was one wickedly powerful goddess, and in the orphic tradition Dionysus was yet Homer tends to think both (when he mentioned them) weren't so... Time changes perspectives as much as different people personalitlies do...  

[coffeebeancloud]

Yeah, I think the Fates are probably the most important gods, but also Mnemosyne had a large importance. The fates decided your fate(which is pretty big), while Mnemosyne was very important in Ancient Greek culture, for she was the titaness of memory, and while they didn't have any real libraries and such, she was the one that remembered all. So....

(I just realized I know to much about Mnemosyne.)  

[ShadowAlexis]

I have to agree about the fates  

[CiaraIsMine]

poseidon!!!!  

[ChaosEntities]

They are all powerful in their own way. If they weren't why would there be multiple gods instead of just one?  

[Javier Cross]

Nyx is essentially one of the most powerful of the gods of ancient times(Thalassa notwithstanding!)  

[DimStar14]

I'd have to say the Fates if I had to choose one.... They determined everyone's course of life, which is pretty big. If I can remember...I think that nobody could change what the Fates determine for your path of life...  

[jsky_high]

sorry but i don't understand are the fates gods?  

[Akherontis]

jsky_high

sorry but i don't understand are the fates gods?

Goddesses. Klotho the spinner, Lakhesis the alloter and Atropos the shearer. Their parentage is disputed, but I tend to subscribe to the notion that they are daughters of Khronos (Time) and Ananke (Necessity).  

[Mylian]

Eris is obviously the most powerful. For without strife, there would be no reason for anybody to do anything of importance, whether god or man.  

[Akherontis]

Mylian

Eris is obviously the most powerful. For without strife, there would be no reason for anybody to do anything of importance, whether god or man.

Even the elder Eris is only the youngest of Nyx's daughters, and the younger Eris (Enyo) is virtually secondary to her brother/lover Ares. Strife is only as important as other aspects of the human condition, such as Love and Wisdom. Even then, you must consider the more primal deities who govern the cosmic forces of reality itself, like Gaia or Khronos.

As I've said before, there really is no single standard of power by which one can judge between gods.  

[Mylian]

Akherontis

Mylian

Eris is obviously the most powerful. For without strife, there would be no reason for anybody to do anything of importance, whether god or man.

Even the elder Eris is only the youngest of Nyx's daughters, and the younger Eris (Enyo) is virtually secondary to her brother/lover Ares. Strife is only as important as other aspects of the human condition, such as Love and Wisdom. Even then, you must consider the more primal deities who govern the cosmic forces of reality itself, like Gaia or Khronos.

As I've said before, there really is no single standard of power by which one can judge between gods.

Of course. I was just participating in the spirit of the conversation. xd

Really, it reminds me of the Borromean rings. The rings are all interlocked, but in such a way that removing one ring will cause all the others to fall away from each other. Each ring exercises critical power over the whole, but that doesn't make any one of them "the most powerful".  

[Akherontis]

Mylian

Of course. I was just participating in the spirit of the conversation. xd

Really, it reminds me of the Borromean rings. The rings are all interlocked, but in such a way that removing one ring will cause all the others to fall away from each other. Each ring exercises critical power over the whole, but that doesn't make any one of them "the most powerful".

That's a fair analogy. Some deities are more important in the grand scheme of things than others, though. We wouldn't be anywhere at all without Khronos and Ananke. Importance doesn't necessarily equate to power, nonetheless.