Who Were the Ancient Gods?

While the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations are things of the past, they live on in the stories and myths of their polytheistic religions, which are inhabited by a multitude of gods and goddesses with distinctive appearances and nuanced personalities.
 Those deities also embody the beliefs and values of the past, and provide a glimpse inside the minds of the ancient people who worshipped them.
Here are a few of the ancient world's important supernatural figures.