The Twelve Olympians Gods ceramic relief - Ancient Greece - Mount Olympus

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. The Olympians were a race of deities, primarily consisting of a third and fourth generation of immortal beings, worshiped as the principal gods of the Greek pantheon and so named because of their residency on top of Mount Olympus. They gained their supremacy in a ten-year-long war of gods, in which Zeus led his siblings to victory over the previous generation of ruling gods, the Titans.