#Greek Gods

Thunder, kingship, and a famously complicated personal life: Zeus is what happens when a storm becomes a government.

Born armored from her father's head, patron of the city that chose her olive tree: Athena is strategy, craft, and the thinking side of courage.

Music, prophecy, medicine, and the sun's clarity: Apollo is the Greek ideal of order and light, with shadows the myths refuse to hide.

Born of sea-foam, armed with a girdle stronger than thunderbolts: Aphrodite is desire as a cosmic force, and the Greeks took her very seriously.

Not the devil, never the villain: Hades is the unglamorous god of inevitability, the wealthiest and most slandered of the brothers.

Earth-shaker, horse-father, grudge-keeper: Poseidon is nature's moods given a trident, and the Greeks sailed accordingly.