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Article: Meet some cool Greek gods and goddesses.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2006
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Byline: Nancy Churnin
Welcome to the world of the Greek gods and goddesses.
It had as much scheming and fighting as a modern-day soap opera. Children fought with their parents. Wives tricked their husbands. Brothers and sisters argued. And in between, some even found time to battle monsters.
Greek mythology begins with Chaos, who gave birth to Gaea, the goddess of earth.
Gaea married Uranus, the god of heaven, and later gave birth to Cronus. Then trouble began. Cronus killed his father.
When Cronus and his wife had children, he worried history would repeat itself. He feared one of his 12 kids would kill him. So he swallowed ...