Poll: Your Favourite Greek God?

[freaper]

Where the hell is Hades? How can you have a rundown of greek gods without Hades? And Chronos is missing as well!

Technically Chronos is not a god but a titan.

Anyhow, Apollo ftw!

 

[Real_horrorshow]

Hera and Dionysos

 

[havass]

My vote for this poll would be Poseidon. His name actually sounds like what he is. Him, or Athena, because...well it's Athena.

Outside of this poll though...show the minor gods some love!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Pluto.
Or Hades.

Ninja'd... so... what he said...

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Ares, because he is the only Greek God I know of that exists in both the MARVEL and DC universes.

Also, before this whole birthsign debacle, he was my zodiac.

 

[Susurrus]

Aphrodite?

 

[BoTTeNBReKeR]

Kratos! ... What do you mean he doesn't count?!

Hephaestus. For some reason I've always liked the "atmosphere" of metalworks.

 

[Misho-]

Where the hell is Hades? How can you have a rundown of greek gods without Hades? And Chronos is missing as well! And thats just a couple of the more famous ones that I can think up at the moment. Seriously though, Chronos is pretty awesome. He handled birth control the Chuck Norris way! He ate his children! And then he was betrayed by his wife...You know, I never realised before what a sad story that is. Poor bastard, all he wanted was to not be usurped by his children so he could rule the universe forever, but no, his wife had to ruin it didn't she? Evil, evil women...Er, I mean, uhhh...please don't kill me!

Chronos was a Titan, therefore, not included. And Hades wasn't part of the Dodekatheon (Twelve Olympians)... but I suppose he's part of "other" 'cause he's such a cool cat.

Hmm Interesting... Yet still Kratos gets a spot... Blegh... Ironic he would be the favorite god seeing how much he hates them himself.

 

[TheTaco007]

I'm sorry, how did you NOT include Hades in this? (Doesn't matter, I prefer Hephaestus.)

 

[AM City Watch]

Artemis, the only god with her own groupies.

Also, if my (somewhat limited) knowledge of the pantheon is correct, the one with the fewest atrocities to her name.

Other than murdering, in increasingly sadistic and creative ways, any man who saw her.

Yeah, pretty much any god from the Greek pantheon has a pretty huge body count. I can't think of a single exception. It's because that's how the ancient Greeks calculated awesome. Hence Hercules (the historical one).

And here I was just thinking of that massacre Achilles describes in the Iliad...
Ah well, picking favorite gods on moral grounds is futile, so I'll stand by my choice. (while averting my eyes)

 

[KorLeonis]

Eros and Aphrodite, sex and love baby.

 

[Malkavian]

Athena. Goddess of Wisdom and War. What more do you need?

 

[evilartist]

I would say either Aphrodite or Dionysus, the two who would probably be the life of the party.

 

[Exocet]

Deimos,purely for the awesome sounding name.
Besides,Kratos' brother is called Deimos,so some of the badass Kratos has is also present in Deimos.This automatically put him above all the other gods in terms of power,except Kratos of course.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Since we've essentially decided to screw the choices, and being that I currently feel like a twat:

1: Erinyes - 'hell hath no fury as a woman scorned' pretty much sums them up.
2: Keres - 'violent death' and all her lovable sisters.

EDIT:

Deimos,purely for the awesome sounding name.

I suddenly feel sorry for his twin: Phobos

EDIT 2:

Got me thinking: astronomy 101

Mars, moons Phobos & Deimos, surely it should've been Timor & Metus... anyone?

 

[DTWolfwood]

Hephaestus, the God of Tech and Metal! The man made Zeus' lightening!

he aint the prettiest god but thats y i also like

Dionysus, the Party God. XD

 

[liljabba]

where is zyzz on the poll? all the other greek gods are jelly and mirin'

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Hmmm, I thought (though not being a Classics student) that Tartarus was the place and Erebus was the personification of the concept of 'darkness and shadow/twilight'. *shrug*

BTW points for sicking the lit on me. ^_^

May not be a classical student either but having inherited an unodly amount of literature and having a broken PS3 and PC for a few months led me to new and interesting ventures >.>

It seems though that a lot of the Protogenoi are both deities as well as personified things and places. Greek Geekdom ftw