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There are technically three generations of the main pantheon, who always come in groups of twelve (the Ancient Greeks had a thing for numbers divisible by three). The third and most well-known generation is known as the Olympians.
The names of the main twelve Olympians (first by Greek and then by Roman reckoning) are as follows:
1. Zeus (Jupiter)
2. Hera (Juno)
3. Poseidon (Neptune)
4. Demeter (Ceres)
5. Dyonisus (Bacchus)
6. Apollo (Apollo or Phoebus)
7. Artemis (Diana)
8. Hermes (Mercury)
9. Athena (Minerva)
10. Ares (Mars)
11. Aphrodite (Venus)
12. Hephaestus (Vulcan)
Technically, Hades (known to the Romans as Pluto, or sometimes as Orcus or Dis pater) is a pretty major player in the way things are run, what with him running the underworld and all, yet he is not considered to be one of the 12 Olympians for 3 reasons:
1. He does not live on Olympus, he lives in the underworld
2. He was a homebody, which means that, as far as the Greek/Roman gods went, he was pretty boring. He didn't go around raping or seducing or killing people, so there weren't a lot of stories to tell about him (neither did Hephaestus, which is why people often forget about him as well, actually).
3. Considering him a major Olympian would mean that they would either have to ruin their lovely number divisible by three, or switch people around, which would mess things up.
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