esire. He is known for playing tricks on people by shooting them with his love arrows and they would fall in love with the person who was closest to them or the first person they saw. Demeter was the god of agriculture and grain and he would help the farmers either have good crops or he would destroy the crops and Demeter was like the farmer's almanac of today. Poseidon was the god of the sea and he was in command of the water. Poseidon would either help the ships that sailed on his vast sea or he would destroy them if the people had angered the gods. He had control of the sea animals and they would do what he told, he also had control of the waves and since Greece was a peninsula and he could create waves that could wipe out any city-state that the gods wanted. Hades is the god of the underworld, we know him as the devil. Hades would full people and give them gifts so they would sign over their soul or he would get the souls of the people who did bad things. Hades was not alone in the underworld he had a sidekick and his name was Persephone. Persephone was like Hermes as he would watch out for people who would do the wrong things and he would tell Hades and they would write their names in the book of incoming souls. There are a lot more god's for different things, but these are some of the more important gods that I listed. Here are the names of the other gods, Hera, Apollo god of solar light, medicine, and music, Helios is the god of the Sun, Dionysus is the goddess of wine and vegetation.The people of Greece would build great buildings and other thing to show there praise to the gods as the built statues and they would had great art works such as vases and painting on wall that stretch across the entire wall. Athens was named after the war goddess Athena and the Parthenon was made in honor of the gods. There are many other things that the Greeks built for the gods and a lot of the art and other things have been lost or i...
