The Twelve Olympians are a group of major deities in the Greek Pantheon who lead the Olympian gods.
The first and founding members were the gods: Zeus, Hades and Poseidon and goddesses: Hestia, Demeter and Hera, who were later joined by the gods, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus (who replaced his aunt, Hestia) and goddesses: Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite. The Twelve Olympians are all based on Mount Olympus, from which they take their name and work together.
Formation[]
The original Olympians consist of the six children of Cronus and Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus, who after defeating their evil father Cronus, the Titan god of the Harvest and leader of the gods, with his allies in the Titanomachy (Titan Wars) locked them away in Tartarus to become the leading gods, based on their home of Mount Olympus. Several other Gods, would join this group to make these six- twelve major Olympian Gods.