The Homeric gods have all different ranks and offices; Olympus being, in fact, regulated on the model of a Grecian city of the heroic ages. Zeus was king of the region of the air and clouds, which had fallen to him by lot on the dethronement of his father Kronos; the sea was the realm of his brother Poseidón; the under-world fell to Hades in the division of their conquests; earth and Olympus were common property. Zeus, however, as eldest brother, exercised a supremacy, and his power was the greatest. The other inhabitants of Olympus were Hera, sister and spouse of Zeus; Apollo, the god of music and archery; his sister Artemis, the goddess of the chase, and their mother Leto; Aphrodite, goddess of love, and her mother Dione; Arés, god of war; Pallas-Athene, goddess of prudence and skill; Themis, goddess of justice; Hermoias, god of grain; Hebe, the attendant of the Olympian king and queen and Isis, their messenger; Hephæstos, the celestial artist, and Pæeon, the physician; and the Muses, the Graces and the Seasons. Poseidón was frequently there; but Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, and Dionysius, the god of wine, do not appear among the residents of Olympus. The Nymphs and the River-gods occasionally visited or were summoned to it. Eos, Helios and Selene, rose every day out of the ocean-stream, and drove in their chariots through the air, shedding their cheering beams abroad. All the dwellings of the gods upon Olympus were of brass or copper, the metal which was in the greatest abundance in Greece. Hephæstos was architect and smith; he formed all the arms, household furniture, chariots and other articles in use among the Celestials; but their dress, especially that of the goddesses, appears to have been the workmanship of Pallas-Athene or of the Graces. The gold which proceeded from the work-shop of Hephæstos was filled with automatic power; his statues were endowed with intelligence; his tripods could move of themselves; he made the golden shoes, or rather soles, with which the gods trod the air and the waters, or strode with the speed of winds, or even of thought, from mountain to mountain upon the earth which trembled beneath their weight. The chariots of the gods and their appurtenances were formed of various metals. That of Hera, for example, is thus described: “Then Hebe quickly to the chariot put The round wheels, eight-spoked, brazen, strong Axle of iron. Gold their fellies were, And undecaying, but thereon of brass The tires, well-fitting, wondrous to behold. Of silver was the rounded nave of each; The body was hung by gold and silver cords, And two curved sides encompassed it about. The pole was silver, and upon its end She tied the beauteous golden yoke, and bound On it the golden braces fair; the steeds, Swift-footed then beneath the yoke were led By Hera, eager for the war and strife.”