Greek Mythology
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Greektrident on October 10, 2009
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Latin | English |
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| Zeus |  God of the sky,King of Olympus |
| Poseidon | God of the sea |
| Demeter | Goddess of the harvest |
| Hera | Goddess of marriage, Queen of Olympus |
| Hades | King of the Underworld |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of beauty |
| Apollo | god of music |
| Hestia | Goddess of the hearth |
| Artemis | Goddess of the hunt |
| Hephaeustus | God of the forge |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom and war |
| Ares | God of war |
| Hermes | God of messengers,thieves, and travelers |
| Aegle | Goddess of brightness |
| Hekatonkheires | Hundred handed and fifty headed monster |
| Cyclopes | Monsters with one eye |
| Aeolus | God of wind |
| Chloris | Goddess of spring flowers |
| Illithia | Goddess of childbirth |
| Eris | Goddess of chaos and discord |
| Eros | God of love |
| Erythia | Goddess of scarlet |
| Hesperethusa | Goddess of the sunset glow |
| Hypnos | God of sleep |
| Pan | God of shepherds and other minor gods |
| Persephone | Goddess of plants, Queen of the underworld |
| Gaea | mother earth |
| Uranus | father sky |
| Cronus | titan of time, father of the big three |
| Tartarus | the darkest, deepest part of the underworld controlled by Hades |
| Epimetheus | titan of after thought |
| Prometheus | titan of forethought |
| Boreas | the North Wind |
| Notus | the South Wind |
| Zephyr | the West Wind |
| Eurus | the East Wind |
| Eos | Gentle dawn |
| Helios | the Sun |
| Selene | the moon |
| Chiron | teacher of heroes |
| Erato | Muse of Lyrics |
| Euterpe | Muse of Music |
| Thalia | Muse of Comedy |
| Melpomene | Muse of Tragedy |
| Terpsichore | Muse of Dance |
| Urania | Muse of astronomy |
| Clio | Muse of History |
| Polyhymnia | Muse of Hymns |
| Calliode | Muse of Epics |
| Oceanus | lord of river, ocean |
| Atlas | a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders |
| Hyperion | God of light |
| Mnemosyne | Titaness of Memory |
| Themis | goddess of justice |
| Crius | least known of the Titans, overthrown in the Titanomachy war |
| Coeus | Titan of intelligence |
| Tethys | sea goddess |
| Charybdis | a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla |
| Argus | a giant with 100 eyes |
| Cerberus | 3-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades |
| Chimera | fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail |
| Echidna | Typhon's mate and mother of monsters |
| Geryon | three bodied and headed giant |
| Gorgons | three hideous dragonish sisters that could change men to stone at a glance. |
| Graiae | sisters who shared one eye and one tooth |
| Hydra | monster with nine heads, cut off one, two grew back |
| Ladon | dragon guarding garden of the Hesperides |
| Kaos | The most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe |
| The Fates | were three powerful goddesses who determined the lives of men. Clotho wove the thread of life; Lachesis measured it out; and Atropos cut it off with her scissors of death. |
| The Graces | Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia |
| Rhadamanthus | judge in the Underworld |
| Sirens | creatures whose songs lured sailors to their deaths |
| Nyx | goddess of the night |
| Erebus | personification of darkness and shadow |
| Iapetus | ruler of the underworld during Golden Age |
| Pleione | She married Atlas and gave birth to the Hyades, Hyas and the Pleiades. |
| Aether | He is the personification of the upper sky, space, and heaven, and is the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air." He is the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air mortals breathe. |
| Momus | the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, poets; a spirit of evil-spirited blame and unfair criticism. |
| Ponus | god of hard labor and toil |
| Moros | personification of impending doom |
| Thanatos | daemon personification of Death. |
| Hesperides | nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world. |
| Keres | female death-spirits. |
| Apate | personification of deceit, and was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box. |
| Philotes | personification of affection and friendship. |
| Geras | was the god of old age. |
| Meliae | nymphs of the ash tree |
| Inachus | personified the Inachus River |
| Oceanids | the three thousand daughters of the Titans |
| Io | a priestess of Hera in Argos |
| Maia | the eldest of the Pleiades |
| Dryope | the daughter of Dryops ("oak-man") |
| Sterope | one of the seven Pleiades |
| Calaeno | Her name means "darkness" or "blackness". |
| Electra | An Argive princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. |
| Alcyone | daughter of Aeolus |
| Taygete | "Mistress of the animals." |
| Eunomia | governance according to good laws |
| Tyche | presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city |
| Rhodos | a son of Hermes and Aphrodite. |
| Peitho | goddess who personifies persuasion and seduction. |
| Abderus | a divine hero |
| Oneiroi | black-winged daemons. |
| Oizys | goddess of distress, worry, and anxiety. |
| Asteria | the sixth Amazon killed by Heracles |
| Enyo | counterpart and companion to the war god Ares. |
| Erotes | are a group of winged gods and demi-gods |
| Alceme | mother of Heracles. |
| Proteus | a prophetic god who served Poseidon |
| Triton | a sea god |
| Doris | wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids |
| Silenus | the chief satyr in the service of Bacchus |
| Aristaeüs | A minor pastoral deity and protector of the beekeepers. |
| Paeëon | Physician of the gods. |
| Anteros | god of requited love |
| Circe | daughter of Helius and Perseïs |
| Tantalus | man who could never eat or drink |
| Ananke | The goddess of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. |
| Hemera | Goddess of daylight and the sun. |
| The Nesoi | Goddesses of the islands. |
| The Ourea | The gods of mountains. |
| Laestrygonians | A tribe of man-eating giants. |
| Agrius | A man eating thrachian giant who was half-man, half-bear |
| Alcyoneus | The eldest of the Thracian giants, who was slain by Heracles |
| Aloadae | Twin giants who attempted to storm Olympus |
| Antaeus | A Giant who was a great wrestler, killed many strangers, invincible when standing on ground, strangled in the air by Hercules |
| Enceladus | One of the Thracian giants who made war on the gods |
| The Gegenees | A tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia |
| Orion | Legendary hunter from mythology. When he vowed to kill every creature on earth, Artemis asked that he be stopped. A giant scorpion was sent to kill him; but after his death, to honor his bravery the gods asked that he be brought to the heavens, and he forms the famous constellation (with its belt) that bears his name. |
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