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Poetry With Greek Gods & Goddesses in the Title

Ancient Greek mythology has strongly influenced Western culture and continues to inspire us today, even though the first known myths were probably recorded 2,800 years ago. Although it is easy to find poems that reference or allude to Greek gods and goddesses, it is not so easy to find poems with their names in the title. There are 12 major gods in the ancient Greek pantheon, many of whom are celebrated in poems.
  1. Aphrodite

    • "Aphrodite Metropolis (1)" and "Aphrodite Metropolis (2)," by Kenneth Fearing, were published in 1940. Fearing was an American poet and founding editor of the "Partisan Review," a political and literary quarterly published until 2003.

    Apollo

    • "Hymn of Apollo" was published by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819. Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. However, while he was alive, Shelley's atheism caused most publishers to refuse to publish his works.

    Ares

    • "The Cageing of Ares," by George Meredith, was published posthumously in 1912. Meredith was an English poet, though best remembered as a novelist, who excelled at psychological character studies.

    Artemis

    • "Pan to Artemis" was published in September 1909 by Aleister Crowley, an English poet born into a wealthy and religious family.

    Athena

    • "To Minerva" is by Thomas Hood, a British poet and humorist, and was published in 1922. Minerva is the Latin name of Athena. However, as this poem claims to be translated "From the Greek" and refers to Minerva as Pallas (another of her Greek names), you can consider it a poem about the Greek goddess.

    Demeter

    • "Demeter and Persephone" was published by Lord Alfred Tennyson in 1889. Tennyson was an English author whose works are considered characteristic of the Victorian age.

    Hephaestus

    • "Hephaestus Alone" can be found in "All of It Singing: New & Selected Poems," published by Linda Gregg in 2008. Gregg is an American poet born, and currently living, in New York City.

    Hera

    • "Hera" was written by Paul Hamilton Hayne. It was published in a complete edition of his poems in 1882. Hayne was born into a wealthy family in South Carolina. Although he suffered financial losses during the Civil War, he managed to devote himself to literature.

    Hermes

    • "Hermes Trismegistus" was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1881. Longfellow, considered one of the most popular American poets of the 1800s, also wrote a narrative poem, "Evangeline," that is reminiscent of epics such as Homer's "Odyssey."

    Hestia

    • "Hestia" is a poem translated from the original modern Greek by the publishing company Elpenor. The original was written by the Greek poet Takis Papatsonis, who lived from 1895 to 1976.

    Poseidon

    • "Poseidon's Law," by Rudyard Kipling (1865 to 1936), was recently published in a collection of his poems and stories, "Traffics and Discoveries" (2006). Kipling, an English short-story writer and poet, was born in Bombay.

    Zeus

    • "Zeus and Apollo" was written by David Rivard and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in "Torque" (1988). Rivard was born in Massachusetts in 1953. He is currently the poetry editor at "The Harvard Review" and teaches at the Vermont College Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program.

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