Below are some charts to help make some sense of the basics of Greek/Roman mythology. What is in parenthesis is what that figure is the god of. The text below is color coded for your benefit:

Black: that name or information that pertains to all the counterparts of that figure.
Green: Greek name or information
Yellow: Roman name or information
Lavender: Latin name or information

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original deities				Uranus (Heaven)	= | |	Gaia (Mother Earth)
groups of kids				| Hechatonchires	| Titans | |	| Cyclops
Select Titans		| Phoebe (Moon)	= | | |	| Coeus	| Hyperion (Sun)	= | | |	| Theia	| Cronus Saturn (Time, Agriculture)	=	| Rhea Cybele (Earth)
Kids	Zeus Jupiter (Thunder)	= | | |	| Leto Latona		| Helios Sol (Sun)	| Selene Luna (Moon)	| Eos Aurora (Dawn)
Kids	| Apollo Phoebus (Light, Sun)	| Artemis Diana (Huntress, Moon)

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Greek offspring of Cronus	Roman offspring of Saturn	God of...
Zeus	Jupiter (Jove)	Lightning; heavens; king of gods
Poseidon	Neptune	Oceans
Hades	Pluto	Death; underworld
Hera	Juno	Marriage; queen of the gods
Demeter	Ceres	Agriculture
Vesta	Hestia	The hearth

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Rest of the main pantheon

Greek name	Roman name	Parents (Greek)	God of...
Athena	Minerva (Pallas)	Zeus (no mother)	Wisdom
Hephaestus	Vulcan	Hera and (in occasional versions where there is a father) Zeus	Fire, the Forge
Aphrodite	Venus	Uranus (no mother); alternative myth: Zeus and Dione	Love
Ares	Mars	Zeus and Hera	War
Apollo	(Phoebus)	Zeus and Leto	Light; Sun
Artemis	Diana	Zeus and Leto	Moon; the hunt
other
Hermes	Mercury	Zeus and Maia	Messenger

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