What you mightn’t know is that Medusa wasn’t always like this. You have most likely heard of Medusa, the snake headed monster whose gaze turns people to stone. While she is known as being wisest of the gods and a level headed strategist, like the others she also had a dark side. But when he was born, she was appalled to find that he was hideously ugly and in disgust she threw him off Mount Olympus! Poor Hephaestus landed all the way on the island of Lemnos and was left with a permanent limp.Īthena is known as the patron saint of Athens and she is how the city got its name. She had high hopes when she was pregnant with her first-born son, who she would name Hephaestus. Zeus had turned her into a heifer in the hopes his affections would be less obvious, but Hera was no fool and swiftly sent a gadfly after her, whose painful stings tormented Io wherever she went.Īs well as being one of the worst Greek gods she was also one of the worst mothers. Hera also enacted her revenge on Io, a mortal servant that Zeus had his lustful eye on. Leto was certainly not the last of Zeus’ affairs. When Hera found out that Zeus had been unfaithful, she cursed Leto, making it impossible for her to find anywhere on land to give birth. From this affair Leto fell pregnant with twins (Artemis and Apollo) and Hera was anything but forgiving. Zeus had an affair with Leto the daughter of the Titans, Phoebe and Coeus. She was well known for taking her frustrations out on both Zeus’s lovers and their illegitimate children. If there was ever a disgruntled wife, it was Hera and you can’t blame her because, as you know, Zeus was a notorious adulterer! Hera’s wrath was so vengeful that it makes her one of the worst Greek gods, alongside her husband. But Rhea had smuggled Zeus away on the island of Crete and he eventually came back to defeat Kronos and free his brothers and sisters. Kronos’s worst nightmares eventually came true as Rhea tricked him into thinking he had swallowed their last child, Zeus. So, to ensure his children never had the chance to overpower him he swallowed them as soon as they were born! Castration, baby eating, it’s easy to see why Kronos is one of the worst Greek gods in mythology. Understandably, you don’t come away from an event like that unscathed and a rather traumatised Kronos was indeed worried that he would live out the same fate as his father. A plan that led to Kronos castrating his father with the swing of a scythe! So, it didn’t take much for his mother to convince him of a cunning yet gruesome plan. Kronos was the son of Ouranos, who turned out to be a cruel and unjust leader who was particularly awful to his wife and Kronos’s mother, Gaia. To know why he is on this list of the worst Greek gods, we must first start from the beginning. Kronos was the Titan father of the Olympian gods and goddesses.
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