Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is the ultimate tragic love story. Perhaps one of the most famous Greek myths, it has inspired many important painters, such as Peter Paul Rubens and Nicolas Poussin. Moreover, many operas, songs and plays have been composed to honour these two great lovers who tragically lost the chance to enjoy their love. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told in many versions with a few differences between them. The earliest account comes from Ibycus (circa 530 BC), a Greek lyric poet. Hereby we present you a mixture of these various versions.

Orpheus, talented at playing music Orpheus is known as the most talented music player of the ancient times. It is said that god Apollo was his father, from whom took his extreme talent in music, and the Muse Calliope was his mother. He was living in Thrace, on the northeastern part of Greece. Orpheus possessed a divinely gifted voice that could charm everyone who heard it. When he was presented first the lyre as a boy, he had it mastered in no time at all. The myth says that no god or mortal could resist his music and even the rocks and trees would move themselves to be near him. According to some ancient texts, Orpheus is accredited to have taught agriculture, writing and medicine to the mankind. He is also attributed with having been an astrologer, a seer and founder of many mystic rites. The strange and ecstatic music of Orpheus would intrigue the mind of people to things over natural and had the power to broaden the mind to new unusual theories. However, apart from a musical talent, Orpheus also had an adventurous character. He was believed to have taken part in the Argonautic expedition, which is the voyage of Jason and his fellow Argonauts to get to Colchis and steal the Golden Fleece. In fact, Orpheus played a vital role during the expedition because, playing his music, he put the “sleepless dragon” that was guarding the Golden Fleece to sleep and thus Jason managed to get the Fleece. Moreover, the music of Orpheus saved the Argonauts from the Sirens, the strange female-like creatures who were seducing men with their nice voice and then they were killing them. Love at first sight Orpheus used to spend much of his early years in the idyllic pursuits of music and poetry. His skill had far surpassed the fame and respect of his music. Humans and beasts alike would be enchanted by it and often even the most inanimate of objects would yearn to be near him. Well into his youth he had mastered the lyre and his melodious voice garnered him audiences from near and afar. It was at one such gathering of humans and beasts that his eyes fell on a wood nymph. The girl was called Eurydice, she was beautiful and shy. She had been drawn to Orpheus enamored by his voice and such was the spell of beauty in music and appearance that neither could cast their eyes off each other. Something inexplicable tugged the hearts of the two young people and soon they feltl dearly in love, unable to spend a single moment apart. After a while, they decided to get married. Their wedding day dawned bright and clear. Hymenaios, the god of marriage, blessed their marriage and then a great feast followed. The surroundings were filled with laughter and gaiety. Soon the shadows grew large, signaling an end to the revelry that had lasted much of the day and the wedding guests all took leave of the newly-weds, who were still sitting hand-in-hand and starry eyed. They soon both realized that it was time they were on their way and departed for home. The snake-bite However, things would soon change and grief would ensue happiness. There was one man who was despising Orpheus and desired Eurydice for his own. Aristaeus, a shepherd, had plotted a plan to conquer the beautiful nymph. And there he was, waiting in the bushes for the young couple to pass by. Seeing that the lovers were approaching, he intended to jump on them and kill Orpheus. As the shepherd made his move, Orpheus grabbed Eurydice by the hand and started running pell-mell through the forest. The chase was long and Aristaeus showed no signs of giving up or slowing down. On and on they ran and suddenly, Orpheus felt Eurydice stumble and fall, her hand slipping from his grasp. Unable to comprehend what had just happened, he rushed to her side but stopped short in dismay, for his eyes perceived the deathly pallor that suffused her cheeks. Looking around, he saw no trace of the shepherd for Aristaeus had witnessed the event and had left. A hand’s reach away, Eurydice had stepped on a nest of snakes and had been bitten by a deadly viper. Knowing that there was no chance of survival, Aristaeus had abandoned his try, cursing his luck and Orpheus. A supernatural plan After the death of his beloved wife, Orpheus was no more the same carefree person he used to be. His life without Eurydice seemed endless and could do nothing more than grief for her. This is when he had a great but yet crazy idea: he decided to go to Underworld and try to get his wife back. Apollo, his father, would talk to Hades, the god of the Underworld, to accept him and hear his plea. Armed with his weapons, the lyre and voice, Orpheus approached Hades and demanded entry into the underworld. None challenged him. Standing in front of the rulers of the dead, Orpheus said why he was there, in a voice both mellifluous and disquieting. He played his lyre and sang out to King Hades and Queen Persephone that Eurydice was returned to him. Not even the most stone-hearted of people or Gods could have neglected the hurt in his voice. Hades openly wept, Persephone’s heart melted and even Cerberus, the gigantic three-headed hound guarding the entry to the underworld, covered his many ears with his paws and howled in despair. The voice of Orpheus was so moving that Hades promised to this desperate man that Eurydice would follow him to the Upper World, the world of the living. However, he warned Orpheus that for no reason must he look back while his wife was still in the dark, for that would undo everything he hoped for. He should wait for Eurydice to get into the light before he looked at her. With great faith in his heart and joy in his song, Orpheus began his journey out of the underworld, joyful that he would once again be reunited with his love. As Orpheus was reaching the exit of the Underworld, he could hear the footfalls of his wife approaching him. He wanted to turn around and hug her immediately but managed to control his feelings. As his was approaching the exit, his heart was beating faster and faster. The moment he stepped on the world of the living, he turned his head to hug his wife. Unfortunately, he got only a glimpse of Eurydice before she was once again drawn back into the underworld. When Orpheus turned his head, Eurydice was still in the dark, she hadn’t seen the sun and, as Hades had warned Orpheus, his sweet wife was drowned back to the dark world of the dead. Waves of anguish and despair swept over him and shuddering with grief he approached the Underworld again but this time, he was denied entry, the gates were standing shut and god Hermes, sent by Zeus, wouldn't let him in. The death of Orpheus From then on, the heart-broken musician was wandering disoriented, day after day, night after night, in total despair. He could find no consolation in anything. His misfortune tormented him, forcing him to abstain from contact with any other woman and slowly but surely he found himself shunning their company completely. His songs were no more joyful but extremely sad. His only comfort was to lay on a huge rock and feel the caress of the breeze, his only vision were the open skies. And so it was that a group of irate women, furious for his scorn towards them, chanced upon him. Orpheus was so desperate that he did not even try to repulse their advances. The women killed him, cut his body into pieces and threw them and his lyre into a river. It is said that his head and his lyre floated downriver to the island of Lesvos. There the Muses found them and gave Orpheus a proper burial ceremony. People believed that his grave emanated music, plaintive yet beautiful. His soul descended down to Hades where he was finally reunited with his beloved Eurydice. The comparison to a Bible scene If you observe the above myth closely, you will find a comparison between this ancient Greek myth and a scene from the Bible. The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is similar to the story of Lot. The analogy of ‘not looking back’ is of great importance to both stories. In the Book of Genesis, when God decided to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities drowned in sins, he ordered a good man, Lot, to take his family and leave the area. God told them to head for the mountains without looking back the city being destroyed. While they were leaving the city, Lot’s wife couldn’t resist and turned around to see the burning cities. She was immediately transformed into a pillar of salt! This may be inferred as a direct and terrifying consequence of disobedience towards God.

Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion and Galatea

The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is quite known and popular till nowadays. Pygmalion, a famous sculptor, falls in love with his own creation and wishes to give this creation life. This simple and imaginary concept is actually the basis from a psychological understanding of male behaviour and wish. This nice myth is considered as the depiction of the masculine need to rule over a certain woman and to inanimate his ideas into a female living creature. The modern concept of Pygmalion is thought as a man who “shapes” an uncultivated woman into an educated creature.

The strange sculptor Pygmalion was a sculptor par excellence, a man who gave to every one of his ivory a life-like appearance. His deep devotion to his art spared him no time to admire the beauty of women. His sculptures were the only beauty he knew. For reasons known only to him, Pygmalion despised and shunned women, finding solace only in his craft. In fact, he was so condemning to women that he had vowed never to marry. Falling in love with his own creation One fine day, Pygmalion carved the statue of a woman of unparalleled beauty. She looked so gentle and divine that he could not take his eyes off the statue. Enchanted with his own creation, he felt waves of joy and desire sweeping over his body and in a moment of inspiration he named the figurine, Galatea, meaning “she who is white like milk”. He draped over her the finest of cloths and bedecked her with the most dazzling of ornaments, adorned her hair with the prettiest of flowers, gave to her the choicest of gifts and kissed her as a sign of adoration. Pygmalion was obsessed and madly in love with his creation. The spell the lifeless woman cast on him was too much to resist and he desired her for his wife. Countless were the nights and days he spent staring upon his creation. The realization of his dream In the meanwhile, the celebration of goddess Aphrodite was fast approaching and preparations were well under way. On the day of the festival, while making offerings to goddess Aphrodite, Pygmalion prayed with all his heart and soul, beseeching the goddess that she turns his ivory figurine into a real woman. Touched by his deep veneration, Aphrodite went to the workshop of Pygmalion to see this famous statue by herself. When he looked upon the statue of Galatea, she got amazed by its beauty and liveliness. Looking better at it, Aphrodite found that Galatea looked like her in beauty and perfection, so, satisfied, she granted Pygmalion his wish. Upon returning home the master-sculptor went straight to Galatea, full of hope. At first, he noticed a flush on the cheeks of the ivory figurine but slowly it dawned upon him that Aphrodite had heard his pleas. Unable to restrain himself, he held Galatea in his arms and kept her strongly. What had been cold ivory turned soft and warm and Pygmalion stood back in amazement as his beloved figurine came into life, smiling at him and speaking words of admiration for her creator. Their love blossomed over the days and before long, wedding vows were exchanged between the two lovers with Aphrodite blessing them with happiness and prosperity. The happy couple had a son, Paphos, who later founded the city of Paphos in Cyprus. Some say that Pygmalion and Galatea also had a daughter, Metharme. The bottom line is that the couple lived happily ever after. The influence of the myth on the arts The story of Pygmalion and Galatea was made famous by Ovid in his famous work, Metamorphoses. However, the name Galatea was ascribed to the figurine only in the 18th century and gained prominence through Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s opera, Pygmalion (1762). Another famous work that is based on this myth is the play “Educating Rita”, written by Willy Russel in 1980. The story of the two lovers has been portrayed by many famous painters. Furthermore, we can’t but observe the similarity between the story of Galatea and the fable of Pinocchio, the wood-carved boy who was brought to life by a fairy-lady because of a man’s wish to have children.

Fallen Angels

The Fallen Angels

The Dictionary of Angels created an amazing list of the angels that fell - it took nine days - from heaven, a third of the heavenly hosts (says Revelation).

De Spina is elsewhere quoted as numbering the fallen angels at 133,306,668, a figure so precise that one hardly knows what to say.

The Book of Enoch says there were 200 but lists far fewer. The dictionary lists just over 100 names culled from I Enoch, the Apocrypha, the Cabala, goetic, rabbinic, patristic, and other writings. Here they are as they appear in the appendix there:

• Abbadon (once one of the seraphim).
• Adramelec.
• Agares (Agreas).
• Amezyarak (Amiziras; also alternate for Semyaza).
• Amy (once partly of the order of powers and partly of the order of angels).
• Anmael (identiefied with Semyaza)
• Arakiel (Araqiel)
• Araziel.
• Ariel (once of the order of virtues).
• Arioc(h)
• Armaros (Abaros, Armers, Pharmaros).
• Armen
• Artaqifa (Arakiba).
• Asbeel
• Asmoday
• Asmodeus (Sammeal) (once of the order of seraphim).
• Astaroth (once of the order of seraphim and of thrones).
• Astoreth (Astarte).
• Atarculph.
• Auza (Oza).
• Azaradel.
• Azazel (once of the order of cherubim).
• Azza (once the angel of justice)
• Azzael (Asael)
• Balam (once of the order of dominations).
• Baraqel (Barakel, Baraqijal).
• Barbatos (once of the order of virtues).
• Barbiel (once of the order of virtues).
• Batarjal.
• Beelzebub (once of the order of cherubim).
• Beliar (Belial) (onced partly of the order of virtues and partly of the order of angels).
• Busasejal.
• Byleth (Beleth) (once of the order of powers).
• Balberith (once of the order of cherubim).
• Caim (Caym) (once of the order of angels).
• Carnivean (once of the order of powers).
• Carreau (once of the order of powers).
• Dagon.
• Danjal.
• Ezekeel (Ezequeel).
• Flaurus (Hauras).
• Gaap (once of the order of thrones).
• Gadreel.
• Gressil (once of the order of thrones).
• Hakael.
• Hananel (Ananel).
• Harut (Persian).
• Iblis (Eblis, Haris) (Mohammedan Satan).
• Ielahiah (once of the order of virtues).
• Iuvart (once of the order of angels).
• Jeqon.
• Jetrel.
• Kasdeja.
• Kawkabel (Kokabel).
• Lau(v)iah (once partly of the order of thrones and partly of the order of cherubim).
• Leviathan (once partly of the order of seraphim).
• Lucifer (often, but erroneously, identified as Satan).
• Mammon.
• Marchosias (once of the order of domination)
• Marut (Persian).
• Mephistopheles.
• Meresin.
• Moloc(h).
• Mulciber.
• Murmur (once partly of the order of thrones and partly of the order of angels).
• Nelchael (once of the order of thrones).
• Nilaihah (once of the order of dominations).
• Oeillet (once of the order of dominations).
• Olivier (once of the order of archangels).
• Ouzza (Usiel).
• Paimon (Paymon) (once of the order of dominations).
• Penemue.
• Procell (once of the order of powers).
• Pursan (Curson) (once of the order of virtues).
• Raum (Raym) (once of the order of thrones).
• Rimmon.
• Rosier (once of the order of dominations).
• Rumael (Ramiel or Remiel).
• Sammael (Satan, Asmodeus).
• Samsaweel.
• Saraknyal.
• Sariel.
• Satan.
• Sealiah (once of the order of virtues).
• Semyaza (Shemhazai, Azaziel) (once of the order of seraphim).
• Senciner (once partly of the order of virtues and partly of the order of powers).
• Shamshiel.
• Simapesiel.
• Sonneillon (once of the order of thrones).
• Tabaet.
• Thammuz.
• Tumael.
• Turael.
• Turel.
• Urakabarameel.
• Usiel (Uzziel) (once of the order of virtues).
• Verrier (once of the order of principalities).
• Verrine (once of the order of thrones).
• Vual (Vvall) (once of the order of powers).
• Yomyael.
• Zavebe.
• Belphegor (Baal-Peor) (once of the order of principalities).
• Forcas (Foras).

Demons

The Ranks of Hell

Just as archangels and angels, Dominions, Principalities, and Powers are in heaven, so it is said demons and devils are in hierarchy of hell, Princes, Ministers, Ambassadors, Justices, The House of Princes, and the Trivial Spirits, Alphonsus de Spina (who brought into Christianity a lot of Jewish lore) says there are ten orders of demons. Some other authorities say there are nine orders of devils, some six, some four.

This was an idea that was especially appealing to the hierarchical mind-set of the Middle Ages. At the top is God's Adversary himself, Satan. At various times he is confused with Lucifer, The Angel of Light, The Prince of Darkness, The Dark Angel, and others but it is Satan we usually mean when we speak of The Devil. All others are demons, not devils, though our language tends to regard devils and demons as synonymous.

Here are the principal personages in the infernal kingdom, in alphabetical order, because there is some disagreement about their exact placement.

What is more interesting than that, however, is how it is imagined that the kingdom of hell mirrors other kingdoms. It is also interesting how and why students of demonology hit upon the very specific numbers of infernal legions commanded by this or that power.

Mark V:7 says Christ was attacked by a legion of demons in the form of pigs. They were drowned.

But to our hierarchy: Here, collected from a number of sources, is probably the most complete - I do not claim 'the most accurate' - list to be found anywhere:

Abaddon	King of Demons. Better known by his Greek name Apollyon.
Abigor	A horseman with a lance and scepter, commanding 60 legions of devils.
Adramelech	Chancellor of Hell and President of The High Council of Devils.
Aguares	Grand Duke of Eastern Hell, commanding 30 legions of devils.
Alocer	Grand Duke of Hell, commanding 36 legions of devils.
Amduscias	Grand Duke of Hell, commanding 29 legions, popular with black magicians.
Andras	Marquis of Hell, commanding 30 legions of devils.
Asmodeus	Head of the Casinos of Hell, banished to the desert by Raphael.
Astaroth	Grand Duke of Western Hell, Lord Treasurer of Hell.
Astarte	One of a number of heathen gods and goddesses sometimes consigned to Hell.
Aym	Grand Duke of Hell, commanding 26 legions of demons. Also Haborym.
Ayperos	Prince of Hell, commanding 36 legions of devils.
Azazel	Standard Bearer of the armies of Hell. Also Satanael.
Baal	Commanding General of the Infernal Armies.
Baalberith	Chief Secretary and Archivist of Hell, a second-order demon. Also Berith.
Balan	Prince of Hell.
Bearded Demon, the	His name cannot be given lest people deal with him in search of the Philosopher's Stone (as King Solomon and Paracelsus are said to have done).
Beelzebub	Prince of Demons, Lord of the Flies, second only to Satan.
Belial	Prince of Trickery, Demon of Sodomy, sometimes called The Antichrist. It is likely he is also the one called Zephar by the German demonologist Weir.
Belphegor	Demon of Ingenious Discoveries and Wealth.
Buer	Second-order demon but commanding 50 legions of devils.
Caym	Grand President of Hell
Charon	Boatman of Hell who ferries souls across the Styx or Archeron
Chax	Grand Duke of Hell. Also Scox.
Cresil	Demon of impurity and slovenliness (according to Sebastien Michaelis, 1613).
Dagon	Baker of Hell, member of the House of Princes.
Eurynomus	Prince of Hell who feeds on corpses.
Furfur	Count of Hell, commanding 26 legions of demons.
Geryon	Giant centaur who (Dante said) guards Hell. Others say the guardian is a dragon.
Hecate	Queen of the witches.
Jezebeth	Demon of Falsehoods.
Kasdeya	According to The Book of Enoch (LXIX:12) 'the fifth Satan.'
Kobal	Entertainment Director of Hell, patron of comedians
Leonard	Inspector-General of Black Magic and Sorcery, The Great Negro of the witches' sabbats as a giant black goat. In Germany, Urian.
Leviathan	Grand Admiral of Hell; androgynous, he is said to have seduced both Adam and Eve.
Lilith	Princess of Hell, first wife of Adam.
Malphas	Grand President of Hell, commanding 40 legions of devils. Same as Caym?
Mammon	A word misunderstood was personified as the Demon of Avarice.
Mastema	Leader of the offspring of fallen angels by human beings.
Melchom	Treasurer of the House of the Princes of Hell.
Mephistopheles	In some versions, servant of Lucifer, in others, The Devil himself.
Merihim	Prince of Pestilence.
Moloch	Another demon inherited from Jewish belief.
Mullin	Servant of the House of Princes, lieutenant to Leonard.
Murmur	Count of Hell, Demon of Music.
Naburus	Marquis of Hell, connected with Cerberus.
Nergal	Chief of Secret Police of Hell, a second-order demon, married to Allotu.
Nybras	Grand Publicist of the Pleasures of Hell, an inferior demon.
Nysrogh	Chief of the House of Princes of Hell, a second order demon.
Orias	Marquis of Hell, Demon of Diabolic Astrologers and Diviners.
Orthon	A minor demon familiar to the Comte de Corasse and the Comte de Foix. Another personal demon known by name is Sybacco, rather unreliably said to have attended Adriano Lemmi, connected with the alleged Satanic-Masonic cult of Palladinism in 19th century Italy and then there are all sorts of demons (usually with French names) that possessed French nuns, etc.
Paymon	Master of Ceremonies of Hell.
Philotanus	Demon assisting Belial in furthering pederasty and sodomy.
Proserpine	In some accounts, Princess of Hell.
Pyro	Prince of Falsehood.
Raum	Count of Hell, commanding 30 legions of demons.
Rimmon	Ambassador from Hell to (Czarist) Russia, Chief Physician of Hell. Also Damas.
Ronwe	Minor demon commanding 19 legions of devils.
Samael	Angel of Death, Prince of the Air, perhaps the one who tempted Eve.
Semiazas	Chief of the Fallen Angels.
Shabriri	Demon who struck people blind. The Jews also had goat demons (Schirim, Seirim), demon monsters (Behemoth, Leviathan), and Lilim, Nazzikim, Ruchoth, and many more.
Sonneillon	Demon of Hate (Michaelis).
Succorbenoth	Chief Eunuch of the House of Princes, Demon of Gates and Jealousy.
Thamuz	Ambassador of Hell, Creator of The Holy Inquisition, Investor of Artillery.
Ukobach	Stationary Engineer of Hell, Inventor of Fireworks, maybe Cooking Out.
Uphir	Head of the HMO of Hell, Demon physician and apothecary.
Valafar	Grand Duke of Hell 'in charge' say Tondriau and Villeneuve (1972) 'of good relations among brigands.'
Verdelet	Master of Ceremonies of the House of the Princes of Hell.
Verin	Demon of Impatience.
Vetis	A devil who specializes in tempting and corrupting the holy.
Xaphan	Stokes the furnaces of Hell, a second-order demon.
Zaebos	One of the many animal-human combinations in Hebrew imitation of the Sumerians. This one is part crocodile, part human.
Zagam	Demon of Deceit and Counterfeiting. He can do Christ's first miracle, changing water into wine.

Greek Mythology

ABA A Thracian nymph loved by Poseidon. ABARBAREE A Mysian nymph loved by the Trojan prince Bucolion.
ACESO (Akeso) The goddess of curing illness and healing wounds.
ACHELOIDES (Akheloides) The naiad daughters of the river Achelous who attended on the god in his river-bed palace.
ACHELOUS (Akheloios) A river of Aetolia in Greece and its god. He wrestled Heracles for the hand of Deianeira but lost the contest and with it his horn.

ACHELOUS

ACHERON (Akheron) The underworld river of pain and its god.
ACHILLES (Akhilleus) The great Phthian hero of the Trojan War.
ACHLYS (Akhlys) The ugly hag who personified misery.
ACIS (Akis) A boy loved by the Nereid Galatea who was crushed beneath a rock by the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus and on his death transformed into a Sicilian River-God.
ACMON (1) (Akmon) One of the Dactyls.
ACMON (2) (Akmon) One of the monkey-like Cercopes.
ACRAEA (Akraia) A naiad daughter of the river Asterion. With her sisters Euboea and Prosymna she nursed the infant goddess Hera.
ACRATUS (Akratos) The daemon of unmixed wine and incontinence.
ACTE (Akte) The ninth of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was goddess of one of the hours of the afternoon.
ADEPHAGIA The goddess of gluttony.
ADICIA (Adikia) The female personification of injustice.
ADRASTEIA One of the nurses of Zeus in Crete.
AEA (Aia) A Nymph loved by the Colchian river-god Phasis.
AEACUS (Aiakos) One of the three Judges of the Underworld. He was a king of Aigina appointed to this position after death.
AEDOS (Aidos) The female personification of modesty and respect. She and Nemesis were the last of the good spirits to depart from the earth in the final and most corrupted age of mankind.
AEGAEON (1) (Aigaios) An ancient sea-god allied with theTitans.
AEGAEON (2) (Aigaion) One of the Gigantes who made war on the gods.
AEGAEUS (Aigaios) A river of Scheria (island of the Phaeacians) and its dvinity.
AEGEIRUS (Aigeros) The Hamadryad nymph of the poplar tree.
AEGINA (Aigina) A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus. She was loved by Zeus who carried her off to the island of Aegina. When her father pursued them Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt.
AEGIPAN (Aigipan) The fish-goat god. When Typhon attacked Olympus Aegipan suggested the gods flee to Egypt and hide there in the form of animals. In this exodus he took the form of a goat with the tail of a fish. Later he helped to free the captured Zeus and was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capricorn.
AEGLE (1) (Aigle) Goddess of the splendour of good health.
AEGLE (2) (Aigle) A nymph who was the mother of the Charites (Graces) by Helius the sun.
AELLO One of the Harpies.
AEOLUS (Aiolos) The Greek god of the winds. Aeolus kept the violent storm winds locked inside the floating island of Aeolia releasing them at the request of the gods.
AEON (Aion) The protogenos or primordial deity of time.
AERGIA The female personification of sloth.
AETHER (Aither) The protogenos or primeval divinity of the brightly, shining blue upper air.
AETNA (Aitna) Goddess of the volcanic Mount Etna in Sicily. She was one of the Ourea (mountain-divinities).
AEX (1) (Aix) The goat-nymph wife of the god Pan.
AEX (2) (Aix) The elder Gorgon which was slain by Zeus who made his aegis shield from its skin.
AGANIPPE A naiad daughter of the river Termessus. She was the nymph of the sacred spring of the Muses on Mount Helicon whose waters possessed the power of inspiration.
AGDISTIS A divinity conceived when Zeus impregnated Mother Earth with a nocturnal emission. It was born with male and female genitals, which so alarmed the gods they castrated it, creating the goddess Cybele.
AGLAEA (Aglaia) Goddess of beauty and one of the three Charites. She was married to Hephaestus after his divorce from Aphrodite.
AGON The male personification of contest.
AGREUS The maritime god of fishing.
AGRIUS (1) (Agrios) One of the Gigantes. He was clubbed to death by the Moirae in the Giant-War.
AGRIUS (2) (Agrios) One of a pair of half-man, half-bear, Thracian giants who fed on the flesh of men.
AGROS The male personification of the produce of the fields.

ALCYONEUS

ALALA The female personification of the war-cry "alala."
ALASTOR The daemon or spirit which cursed a house with a blood feud, and inflicted vengeance upon the generations for the sins of their fathers.
ALCE (Alke) The female personification of battle-strength and prowess.
ALCON (Alkon) One of the Cabeiri.
ALCYONE (Alkyone) One of the Pleiades who was loved by Poseidon.
ALCYONEUS (Alkyoneus) The strongest of the Gigantes. He was immortal but only within the boundaries of his homeland Pallene. In the Giant War Heracles shot him and dragged him away from his home to die.
ALCYONIDES (Alkyonides) Seven nymph daughters of the giant Alcyoneus who leapt into the sea after their father's death and were transformed into kingfishers.
ALECTO (Alekto) One of the three Erinyes.
ALETHEIA The female personification of truth.
ALEXIARES An immortal son of Heracles and Hebe. He was the demi-god who wards off war.
ALEXIROE (Alexirhoe) A naiad daughter of the river Grenicus of Troy.
ALGEA The female personifications of sorrow.
ALOADAE (Aloadai) Two gigantic sons of Poseidon who tried to storm the heavens by piling mountains one upon the other. They were slain by Apollon and Artemis.
ALPUS (Alpos) A monstrous Sicilian giant slain by Dionysos.
ALPHEIUS (Alpheios) A river of Elis in Greece and its divinity. He fell in love with the nymph Arethusa and pursued her all the way to the island Ortygia. Artemis then transformed her into a spring to escape him but Alpheius guided his stream under the sea to Sicily so he could forever mingle his waters with hers.
ALSEIDES Dryad-nymphs of the groves.
AMALTHEIA Amaltheia was the she-goat nurse of the infant Zeus. She was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Capra and her horn transformed into the cornucopia (horn of plenty).
AMECHANIA (Amekhania) The female personification of helplessness.
AMNISIADES The Naiad daughters of the river Amnisus who attended the goddess Artemis and cared for her sacred, golden-horned deer.
AMNISUS (Amnisos) A river of Crete in Greece and its divinity.
AMPELUS (Ampelos) The satyr loved by Dionysus in his youth. When he was killed by a wild bull the divinity transformed him into a grape-vine.
AMPHIARAUS A hero swallowed alive by the earth and transformed into an oracular daemon.

AMPHITRITE

AMPHILOGIAE (Amphilogiai) The personifications of disputes.
AMPHITRITE The goddess queen of the sea. She was one of the fifty Nereides and the wife of great Poseidon.
AMYMONE The Naiad of an Argive spring loved by Poseidon.
ANAIDEIA The female personification of ruthlessness.
ANANKE The primeval goddess of necessity whose serpentine form entwined with that of her consort Chronus, the god of time.
ANARESINEUS One of the fish-tailed sea gods.
ANATOLE The second of the twelve Horai (Hours). She was the goddess of the hour of dawn.
ANAX A Lydian giant.
ANCHIALE (Ankhiale) The Titan-goddess of drawing heat and igniting fire. She was the wife of Hecaterus, the Titan-god of the hands and the mother of the metal-working Dactyls (the Fingers).
ANCHINOE (Ankhinoe) An Egyptian Naiad.
ANCHIROE (1) (Ankhiroe) An Arcadian Naiad nymph.
ANCHIROE (2) (Ankhiroe) A Naiad daughter of the Libyan river Chrementes.
ANCHIROE (3) (Ankhiroe) A Naiad daughter of the river Erasinus in Greece who attended upon the vigin goddess Britomartis.
ANDROCTASIAE (Androktasiai) The personifications of manslaughter.
ANEMOI (1) The gods of the north, south, east and west winds who lived together in a cave in Thrace or at each of the four corners of the earth. Boreas was the wintry spirit of the north wind, Notus the stormy south wind of summer, Zephryus the gentle west wind of spring, and Eurus the blustery east wind of autumn.

ANEMOS

ANEMOI (2) Demons of the storm winds, born of the monster Typhon. They were locked inside the floating island of Aeolus and released at the command of Zeus to wreak havoc on earth.
ANGELIA The goddess of messages.
ANIA The female personification of trouble.
ANICETUS (Aniketos) An immortal son of Heracles and Hebe. He was the demi-god of unconquerable might.
ANIGRIDES Naiad daughters of the river Angrus in Greece whose sacred springs could cure those inflicted with skin diseases.
ANIGRUS (Anigros) A river of Elis in the south of Greece and its god.
ANIPPE A Naiad daughter of the River Nile loved by Poseidon.
ANTAEUS (Antaios) A Libyan giant who drew his strength directly from his mother the goddess Earth who was slain by Heracles in a wrestling match.
ANTEROS The Greek god of unrequited love who was armed with a bow and arrows of lead.
ANTHEIA The goddess of flowers and floral wreaths. She was one of the attendants of Aphrodite.
ANTHEDON A nymph of Boetia in Greece.
ANTHRACIA (Anthrakia) One of the Arcadian nymphs who nursed Zeus.
ANTIPHATES The king of a tribe of man-eating giants, known as the Laestrygones, encountered by Odysseus on his travels.
ANYTUS (Anytos) An Arcadian Titan who fostered Demeter's daughter Despoena.
APATE The female personification of deceit.
APELIOTES The demi-god of the east wind.
APHRODITE The Greek goddess of love, beauty and intercourse, and one of the twelve great Olympian gods. She was born of sea-foam formed around the castrated genitals of the sky-god Uranus.
APHROS An Ichthyocentaur, or fish-tailed sea centaur, who carried the goddess Aphrodite ashore after her birth from the sea's foam.
APOLLO (Apollon) The Greek god of prophecy, music and healing and one of the twelve Olympians. His arrows brought plague to men.

APOLLO

APORIA The personification of powerlessness and difficulty.
APOTHEOTHENAI Men and women who granted immortality and a life amongst the gods.
ARAE (Arai) The female personifications of curses.
ARCE (Arke) A sister of Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. She was the messenger of the Titan-gods who was stripped of her wings and cast into Tartarus by Zeus.
ARES The Greek god of war and bloodshed, and one of the twelve Olympians.
ARETE The goddesss of virtue and excellence.
ARETHUSA (Arethousa) The Naiad nymph of a Sicilian spring who was chased across the sea from Greece by the lustful river-god Alpheus.
ARGES One of the three metal-working Cyclops.
ARGIOPE (1) A Nymphe of Mount Parnassos who was abandoned by the poet Philammon.
ARGIOPE (2) An Eleusinian nymph.
ARGUS PANOPTES (Argos Panoptes) A giant whose body was covered with a hundred eyes set by Hera to guard the maiden Io, a lover of Zeus whom the god had disguised as a cow. Zeus sent Hermes to slay Argus and after his death Hera placed his eyes on the tail feathers of the peacock.
ARGYRA A sea Nymph of Archaea in Greece loved by the hero Selemnus.
ARIADNE A Cretan princess who helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur. On her return to Athens with the hero, Dionysus abducted her and carried her off to Olympus to be his immortal wife.
ARIMASPIANS (Arimaspoi) A tribe of one-eyed Scythians who waged a perpetual war with the Griffins over mountain gold..
ARION (Areion) An immortal horse born of the goddess Demeter after Poseidon raped her in the shape of a horse. Arion was owned first by Heracles and then later by the hero Adrastus.
ARISTAEUS (1) (Aristaios) The rustic god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, olive-growing and hunting. He was a companion of his cousin Dionysus.
ARISTAEUS (2) (Aristaios) One of the Gigantes who fled the battle with the gods and was transformed into a dung-beetle.
ARTEMIS The Greek goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth and children, and one of the twelve Olympian gods. She brought sudden death to women and girls with her deadly arrows..

ARTEMIS

ASBETON The Daemon 'Charr' which plagued the craftsman potter.
ASCALAPHUS (Askalaphos) An underworld spirit who tended the orchards of Hades. When he told his master that Persephone had tasted the seeds of the pomegranate Demeter punished him by turning him into a screech-owl.
ASCANIUS (Askanios) A River of Mysia and its divinity.
ASCLEPIUS (Asklepios) The Greek of medicine. He was a student of the centaur Chiron trained as a physician who became so skilled that he could bring the dead back to life. Zeus struck him dead with a lightning bolt for defying the will of the Fates.
ASCRA (Askre) A Boeotian nymph loved by Poseidon.
ASIA (1) (Asie) The Oceanid wife of the Titan Iapetos who gave her name to the continent.
ASIA (2) (Asie) The Oceanid wife of the Titan Prometheus who gave her name to the continent.
ASOPIS A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus in southern Greece.
ASOPUS (Asopos) A river of Boeotia and Argos in Greece and its watery-god.. He had twenty beautiful daughters, who were all abducted by the gods. When he tried to recover his daughter Aegina from Zeus, he was driven back by the god's thunderbolts.
ASTERIA The Titan goddess of nocturnal rites, and mother of the goddess Hecate. When Zeus chased her, she transformed herself into a quail and leapt into the sea where she became the island of Delos.
ASTERION A river of Mycenae in the southern Greece and its divinity.
ASTERIUS (Asterios) A Lydian giant.
ASTERODEIA A nymph of the Caucasus mountains loved by King Aeetes of Colchis.
ASTEROPE An Oceanid loved by Zeus.
ASTRA PLANETA The gods of the wandering stars known as planets. Hesperus (Venus) was the spirit of the star Venus and Pyroeis or the star we call Mars.
ASTRAEA (Astraia) The Titan-goddess of justice. Astraea withdrew from the earth at the end of the golden age of man to take a place amongst the stars as the constellation Virgo.
ASTRAEUS (1) (Astraios) The Titan-god of the stars, and the arts of astronomy and astrology. He was the father of the spirits of the four Winds and of the Wandering Stars by the dawn-goddess Eos.
ASTRAEUS (2) (Astraios) One of the Sileni, elderly satyrs in the retinue of Dionysus.
ASTRAPE The goddess of lightning, a handmaiden of stormy Zeus.
ASTRIS A daughter of Helius the sun and wife of the Indian river-god Hydaspes.
ASTROTHESIAI The spirits of constellations, mostly mortals granted a place of honour in the heavens.
ASTYOCHE (Astyokhe) A Naiad daughter of the Trojan river Simoeis. She married one of the kings of Troy.

ATHENA

ATE The personification of error, delusion, ruin and blind folly. She led men and gods to rash and inconsiderate actions, for which Zeus tossed her by the hair out of heaven.
ATHENA (Athene) The Greek goddess of war and skilled crafts, and one of the twelve Olympians. She sprang fully grown and armed from the head of Zeus..
ATLANTEIA A Dryad nymph loved by Danaus, a king of Egypt.
ATLANTEANS (Atlantes) The inhabitants of the lost island of Atlantis.
ATLAS The Titan-god of daring who led the Titan-army in their war against the gods. As punishment he was condemned to carry the dome of heaven upon his shoulders.
ATROPUS (Atropos) One of the three Fates.
ATTIS A eunuch attendant of the goddess Cybele who drove her lion-drawn chariot. Once he had been her lover, but was driven to castrate himself by the goddess when she discovered him in the arms of a nymph.
AUGE The first of the goddesses of the twelve hours, who presided over the hour of dawn's first light.
AULONIADES Dryad-nymphs of the glens.
AURA The Titan-goddess of the breeze who was raped by Dionysus in the mountains of Phrygia.
AURAE (Aurai) Nymphs of the gentle breeze.
AUTOMATONES Animated metal statues of animals and men crafted by the divine smith Hephaistos.
AUXESIA The Hora of spring growth.
AXIUS (Axios) A river of Paeonia and its divinity.
BALANIS The Hamadryad nymph of the acorn tree. BATIA (Bateia) The nymph wife of a king of the Greek city of Sparta.
BALIUS (Balios) An immortal horse given to the hero Peleus as a wedding present by the gods, which his son Achilles later drove in the Trojan War.
BELLEROPHON (Bellerophontes) The Greek hero who tamed the winged horse Pegasus and rode it into battle against the fire-breathing Chimaera.
BENDIS The Thracian goddess of the moon and the hunt who was worshipped with wild Bacchic orgies.
BENTHESICYME (Benthesikyme) A sea-nymph daughter of Poseidon who married one of the kings of Ethiopia.
BEROE The goddess of the Phoenician city of Beruit for whose hand in marriage the gods Poseidon and Dionysus went to battle.

BOREAS

BIA The goddess of force, one of the chief attendants of Zeus who served beside him in the Titan-war.
BLEMMYAE (Blemmyai) A fabulous tribe of headless African men with their faces set upon their chests.
BOLBE The nymph of a Boeotian lake called Bolbe.
BOLINA A maiden who fled the amorous embrace of the god Apollo, leapt into the sea and was transformed into an immortal nymph.
BOOTES The agricultural god of the plough who also invented the wagon.
BOREAS The purple-haired, winged god of the north wind and the chill and snows of winter.
BRIAREUS (Briareos) One of the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires who dwelt beneath the sea beside the palace of Poseidon. He came to the aid of Zeus when the other gods rebelled against their king.
BRITOMARTIS A maiden goddess of the nets and fast companion of Artemis. She was once pursued by Minos king of Crete and leapt into the sea to escape his embrace where she was saved in the nets of fishermen.
BRIZO A goddess of the island of Delos, a patron of fishermen, and sender of oracular visions in dreams.
BRONTES One of the three metal-working Cyclopes who crafted the lightning bolts of Zeus.
BRYCHON A River of the Thracian Chersonese and its fish-tailed divinity who allied with the Gigantes in their war against the gods.
BYBLIS A princess of Caria who was transformed into a Hamadryad by the Nymphs of the mountain when she cast herself off a mountain in despair.
BYTHOS One of the Ichthyocentaurs, or fish-tailed centaurs, who carried the goddess Aphrodite ashore after her birth inthe sea foam.
BYZE A Naiad daughter of the Greek river Erasinus who attended the goddess Britomartis.
CAANTHUS (Kaanthos) A son of the Titan Oceanus who was slain by Apollo in their contest for the love of a nymph named Melia.
CABEIRI (Kabeiroi) The gods of forged agricultural implements who presided over the Cabeirian Mysteries of the Greek island of Samothrace.
CABEIRIDES (Kabeirides) Nymphs of the Cabeirian Mysteries of the Greek island of Samothrace.
CABEIRO (Kabeiro) A sea nymph loved by the divine smith Hephaestus.
CACIA (Kakia) The female personification of vice.
CACUS (Kakos) A fire-breathing Italian giant slain by Heracles.
CADMILUS (Kadmilos) A rustic who fathered the Cabeiri twins.
CAECIUS (Kaikias) The spirit of the north-east wind.
CAECUS (Kaikos) A river of Teuthrania and its watery spirit.
CAERUS (Kairos) The Greek god of opportunity.
CALIADNE (Kaliadne) An Egyptian Naiad.
CALOCAGATHIA (Kalokagathia) The female personofication of nobility.
CALLIGENEIA (Kalligeneia) The nurse of Persephone and a goddess of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
CALLIOPE (Kalliope) The eldest of the Muses who presided over the art of epic poetry.
CALLIRHOE (1) (Kallirhoe) The Oceanid wife of the giant Chrysaor who begged her son Geryon not to battle Heracles.
CALLIRHOE (2) (Kallirroe) A Naiad daughter of the river Achelous who married the hero Alcmaeon. She demanded the famed necklace of Harmonia from her husband for a bridal gift, a request which was to doom him and their descendants both.
CALLIRHOE (3) (Kallirhoe) A Naiad daughter of the river Scamander who married one of the kings of Troy.
CALLISTE (Kalliste) A sea-nymph daughter of the fish-tailed Triton and goddess of the island of Calliste.
CALLITHYIA (Kallithyia) A Naiad daughter of the river Inachus who founded the ancient cult of Hera in Argos in southern Greece.

CALYDONIAN BOAR

CALYBE (Kalybe) A rustic nymph loved by the Trojan king Laomedon.
CALYDONIAN BOAR (Hus Kalydonios) A giant boar sent by Artemis to ravish the land of Aetolia after being offended by its king. It was slain by a band of mighty heroes led by Meleager.
CALYPSO (Kalypso) The goddess-nymph of the island Ogygia who detained the hero Odysseus for many years.
CAMARINA (Kamarina) An Oceanid who gave her name to the Italian city of Camarina.
CAMPE (Kampe) A servant of the Titans set to guard the Tartarean prison of the Hecatoncheir and Cyclop giants. Zeus slew her to free them from the jail.
CAPHEIRA (Kapheira) A sea-nymph who nursed the infant Poseidon in the deep.
CARCINUS (Karkinos) A giant crab which fought beside the Hydra in its battle with Heracles. The hero crushed the creature beneath his foot, but Hera rewarded it with a place amongst the stars as the constellation Cancer.
CARMANOR (Karmanor) A Cretan harvest-god loved by the goddess Demeter.
CARME (Karme) A Cretan nymph of the summer harvest.
CARMENTIS (Karmentis) An Arcadian Naiad loved by the god Hermes whose son Evander emigrated to Latium in Italy.
CARPI (Karpoi) The gods of the fruits of the earth which appear as infants frolicking in the company of the goddess Earth..
CARPO (Karpo) One of the Horae (Seasons) and the goddess of ripened fruit.
CARYA (Karya) The Hamadryad nymph of the hazel or the walnut tree.
CARYSTUS (Karystos) A rustic spirit of the Greek island of the Euboea, son of the centaur Chiron.
CASTALIA (Kastalia) A Naiad daughter of the river Achelous in Greece who presided over a sacred spring at the shrine of Delphi.
CAUCASIAN EAGLE (Aetos Kaukasios) An eagle sent by Zeus to gnaw on the ever-regenerating liver of the Titan Prometheus. It was destroyed by Heracles when he came to free the Titan from his torments.
CAYSTER (Kaystros) A river of Lydia and its watery spirit.
CEBREN (Kebren) A river of Troy and its divinity.
CECROPS (Kekrops) An earth-born king of Attica in Greece born with the tail of a serpent in place of legs.
CEDALION (Kedalion) A daemon attendant of Hephaestus who worked in the smith's forge.
CELAENO (1) (Kelaino) One of the starry Pleiad nymphs who was loved by the god Poseidon.

CENTAUR

CELAENO (2) (Kelaino) One of the three winged Harpies.
CELEDONES (Keledones) Magical singers crafted by Hephaestus out of solid gold to serve at the great temple of Apollo at Delphi.
CELMIS (Kelmis) One of the Dactyls.
CELUSA (Kelouse) The nymph mother of the river-god Asopus by Poseidon.
CENTAURIDES (Kentaurides) Females of the Thessalian tribe of centaurs.
CENTAURS (1), THESSALIAN (Kentauroi Thessalioi) A tribe of wild beasts with the upper bodies of men and lower forms of horses. They once tried to abduct the bride of Peirithoos from the wedding feast and were destroyed in the battle with the Lapiths which ensued.
CENTAURS (2), PELOPONNESIAN (Kentauroi Pelopponesioi) A trbe of centaurs who battled Heracles over the wine of their brother Pholus.
CENTAURS (3), CYPRIAN (Kentauroi Kyprioi) A tribe of bull-horned Centaurs from the island of Cyprus. They were born when Zeus impregnated the Earth during an attempted rape of the goddess Aphrodite.
CENTAURS (4), LAMIAN (Pheres Lamioi) Centaur-companions of Dionysus. They were the sons of his nurses, the nymphs Lamides, who were appointed to guard the young divinity by Zeus. Hera gave them their beastly form as punishment.
CEPHISUS (1) (Kephisos) A river of Phocis and Boeotia in southern Greece and its divinity.
CEPHISUS (2) (Kephisos) A river of Attica in Greece and its fish-tailed spirit.
CEPHISUS (3) (Kephisos) The spirit of a river in Argos in Greece whose streams were dried up by . Poseidon when he awarded the land to Hera.
CERAON (Keraon) The daemon of mixing wine.

CERBERUS

CERBERUS (Kerberos) The three-headed, serpentine hound which guarded the gates of the underworld. Heracles was sent to fetch it as one of his twelve labours.
CERCOPES (Kerkopes) Monkey-like twin sons of the river Oceanus which bothered the lands of Lydia with their banditry. Herakles once captured the pair but they so amused him with their jokes that he let them go free.
CERYNITIAN HIND (Elaphos Kerynitis) A golden-horned deer sacred to the goddess Artemis which Heracles was sent to fetch as one of his Twelve Labours.
CETEA (Ketea) Monsters or dragons of the sea. The smaller types acted as mounts for the sea-gods and nymphs, the larger ones were sent by the marine divinities to punish men.
CETO (1) (Keto) An ancient goddess who personified the many dangers of the sea. Her brood included the Gorgons, the Graea and the monster Scylla.
CETO (2) (Keto) An Oceanid nymph loved by Helius the sun.
CETUS (1), ETHIOPIAN (Ketos Aithiopios) A sea monster sent by Poseidon to ravage the lands of Ethiopia. The hero Perseus slew the monster and rescued the sacrificial princess Andromeda from her chains.
CETUS (2), TROJAN (Ketos Troias) A sea monster sent by Poseidon to plague the lands of Troy. Heracles destroyed it with his arrows, and saved the king's daughter Hesione from her chains.
CEUTHONYMUS (Keuthonymos) A mysterious daemon of the underworld.
CHALCOTAURI (Khalkotauroi) Fire-breathing, bronze bulls which King Aeetes of Colchis commanded Jason to yoke and plow a field with dragon's teeth.
CHALCIS (Khalkis) A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus after whom the Euboean town of Chalcis was named..
CHAOS (Khaos) The primordial spirit of the "gap" or airy void which spans the distance between heaven and earth.

CHARITES

CHARICLO (1) (Khariklo) One of the nymphs and wife of the centaur Chiron who lived with him in a cave on Mount Pelion.
CHARICLO (2) (Khariklo) The Nymph mother of the seer Teiresias and friend of the goddess Athena.
CHARITES (Kharites) The goddesses of the three graces - beauty, mirth and festive good-cheer.
CHARON (Kharon) An underworld daemon who ferried the spirits of the dead across the river Acheron.
CHARYBDIS (Kharybdis) A gigantic daughter of Poseidon who was chained to the sea-bed as punishment for a crime. Her inhallations formed a massive whirlpool, a terror for the sailors travelling her narrow straight.
CHELONE (Khelone) An Oread nymph who haughtily refused to attend the wedding feast of Zeus and Hera. She was transformed into a tortoise for punishment.
CHIMERA (Khimaira) A creature with the fore-quarters of a lion, the rear end of a goat, a goats head on its back, and a fanged serpent-head for a tail. It was slain by the hero Bellerophon who rode into battle on the back of the winged horse Pegasus.
CHIONE (1) (Khione) The goddess of snow, a daughter of the frosty north-wind Boreas.
CHIONE (2) (Khione) A snow-nymph loved by the north-wind Boreas.
CHIONE (3) (Khione) A Naiad daughter of the River Nile. Zeus took pity on her when she was raped by a peasant and transformed her into a cloud, which snowed down upon the desert.

CHIRON

CHIRON (Kheiron) An immortal centaur, son of the Titan Cronus and half-brother of Zeus. He was famed for his wisdom and fostered many of the great heroes in his cave on Mount Pelion in northern Greece.
CHLORIS (Khloris) The goddess of flowers and wife of Zephyrus the west wind.
CHREMETES (Khremetes) A river of Libya and its divinity.
CHRONUS (Khronos) The primordial spirit of time whose serpentine form was entwined with the form of Ananke, the goddess of necessity.
CHRYSAOR (Khrysaor) A gigantic winged son of the Gorgon Medusa.
CHRYSEAN DOG (Khryseos Kuon) A golden hound set by Rhea set to guard the infant Zeus and his nurse the goat Amaltheia.
CHRYSOMALLUS (Khrysomallos) A flying, golden-fleeced ram sent by the cloud-nymph Nephele to rescue her childre,n Phrixus and Helle, from sacrifice.
CHRYSOPELIA (Khrysopeleia) The nymph wife of Arcas, an early king of Arcadia in Greece.
CHRYSOTHEMIS (Khrysothemis) The goddess of the golden-rites of the grain harvest.
CHRYSUS (Khrysos) The god of golden riches.
CIRCE (Kirke) An immortal witch who lived on the island of Aeaea where she transformed travellers into beasts with her potions and spells.
CITHAERON (Kithairon) A ancient, craggy spirit of Mount Cithaeron in southern Greece.
CLAEA (Klaia) A Messenian Oread nymph who possessed a shrine on Mount Calathium in the south of Greece.
CLAZOMENAEAN BOAR (Hus Klazomenaios) A gigantic winged boar which terrorized the Ionian town of Clazomenae.
CLEEIA (Kleeia) One of the starry Hyad nymphs.
CLEOCHARIA (Kleokhareia) A Naiad nymph and wife of Lelex, first king of Sparta in the south of Greece.
CLEODORA (Kleodora) A nymph of Mount Parnassus loved by Poseidon.
CLEOMEDE (Kleomede) A nymph of the river Axius loved by King Paeonus of Paeonia.
CLEONE (Kleone) A Naiad nymph of the town of Cleonae in Argos.
CLIO (Kleio) The goddess Muse of history.
CLONIA (Klonie) A Boeotian nymph of the town of Hyria.
CLOTHO (Klotho) One of the three Fates.
CLYMENE (1) (Klymene) The Titan goddess of fame and infamy. She was Oceanides and the wife of the Titan Iapetus.
CLYMENE (2) (Klymene) An Oceanid nymph loved by the sun-god Helios who bore him Phaethon and the Heliad nymphs.
CLYTIA (Klytia) An Oceanid nymph loved by Helius the sun. When he abandoned her for another, she pined away and was transformed into a sun-gazing heliotrope flower.
CLYTIUS (Klytios) One of the Gigantes who was slain by Hecate in the Giant War with her flaming torches.
CNOSSIA (Knossia) A nymph of the Cretan town of Cnossus loved by King Menelaus of Sparta.
COALEMUS (Koalemos) The personification of stupidity.
COCYTHIAE (Kokythiai) Naiad nymph daughters of the underworld river Cocytus.
COCYTUS (Kokytos) The underworld river of wailing and its divinity
COEUS (Koios) The Titan-god of intelligence who presided over the axis of heaven.
COMBE (Kombe) A rustic nymph of the island of Euboea, mother of the Euboean Corybantes.
COMUS (Komos) The Greek god of banquets and festivity.
CONISALUS (Konisalos) A phallic daemon of garden fertility.
CORCYRA (Korkyra) A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus abducted by Poseidon to the island of Corcyra.
CORONIDES (Koronides) Twin daughters of the Giant Orion who saved the city of Orchomeus from plague by offering themselves up as a sacrifice to the gods. Persephone pitied their fate and transformed the pair into comets.
CORONIS (Koronis) One of the starry Hyades.
CORUS (Koros) The personification of disdain.
CORYBANTES (1), PHRYGIAN (Korybantes Phrygioi) Divine attendants of the goddess Cybele which celebrated her rites with a dance of clashing shield and spear.
CORYBANTES (2), SAMOTHRACIAN (Korybantes Samothrakioi) Daemones of the orgiastic dance of the Samothracian mysteries.
CORYBANTES (3), EUBOEAN (Korybantes Euboiai) Curete-like daemones of the island of Euboea in Greece.
CORYCIA (Korykia) A Corycian nymph of Delphi in central Greece loved by Apollo.
CORYCIAE (Korykiai) Naiad daughters of the river Pleistus which tended the springs of the sacred Corycian cave on Mount Parnassus.
CORYMBUS (Korymbos) The rustic spirit of ivy wreaths worn by celebrants of the Bacchic orgies..
COTTUS (Kottos) One of the hundred-handed, fifty-headed Hecatoncheir giants.
COTYS (Kotys) A wild Bacchic goddess of Thrace.

CRETAN BULL

CRANEIA (Kraneia) The Hamadryad nymph of the cornel or cherry tree.
CRATAEIS (Krataeis) The mother of the monster Skylla.
CRATUS (Kratos) The daemon (spirit) of strength who guarded the throne of Zeus.
CRENAEAE (Krenaiai) Naiad-nymphs of fountains.
CRES The earth-spirit of the island of Crete.
CRETAN BULL (Tauros Kretaios) A bull sent forth from the sea by Poseidon. It impregnated Pasiphae, the wife of king Minos of Crete, who afterwards gave birth to the Minotaur. Heracles was later sent to fetch it as one of his Twelve Labours.
CRETHEIS (Kretheis) A Naiad nymph of the Lydian town of Smyrna who, according to legend, was the mother of Homer by the river-god Meles.
CREUSA (Kreousa) The Naiad nymph wife of the river Peneus in northern Greece.
CRINAEAE (Krinaiai) Naiad-nymphs of fountains.
CRIUS (Krios) The Titan-god of mastery, leadership and the constellations who was imprisoned in Tartarus with his brothers by the gods.
CROCALE (Krokale) One of the attendant nymphs of the goddess Artemis.
CROMMYON SOW (Hus Krommyon) A giant boar sent by the gods to ravage the farmlands of Crommyon. It was slain by Theseus.

CRONUS

CRONUS (Kronos) King of the Titans and Titan-god of time. He castrated his father Uranus to seize the throne of heaven, but was later deposed by his own son Zeus after a ten year war. Cronus was cast into Tartarus but later freed by Zeus and made king of Elysium.
CROTUS (Krotos) A satyr companion of the nine Muses who was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Saggitarius.
CTESIUS (Ktesios) The friendly daemon (spirit) of the household.
CURETES (Kouretes) Servants of Rhea who helped to conceal the infant Zeus from Cronus by dancing about with a clash spear and shield to drown out his cries.
CYAMITES (Kyamites) The bean-man, a minor divinity of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
CYANE (1) (Kyane) The Naiad nymph of a spring near Syracuse in Sicily. Hades violated her waters in the abduction of Persephone she was transformed into pure liquid.
CYANE (2) (Kyane) A nymph and the wife of Aeolus, king of the winds.
CYANEE (Kyanee) The Naiad nymph of the springs of the Carian town of Miletus who was the wife of the town's founding hero Miletus.
CYBELE (Kybele) The Phrygian mother of the gods, identified by the Greeks with Rhea.
CYCLOPES (1), ELDER (Kyklopes) Three one-eyed giants which were imprisoned in Tartarus first by their father Uranus and then by Cronus. Zeus rescued them during the Titan-War and they crafted for him his thunderbolts, for Hades a helm of invisibility, and for Poseidon an earth-quaking trident.
CYCLOPES (2), YOUNGER (Kyklopes) A primitive and lawless band of one-eyed, cannibal giants which dwelt on the island of Hypereia. They were encountered by Odysseus during his travels.
CYDNIDES (Kydnides) Warlike Cicilian Naiads who fought for Dionysus in his Indian War.
CYDOIMUS (Kydoimos) The personification of confusion, a daemon of the battlefield.
CYLLENE (Kyllene) A nymph of Mount Cyllene and wife of King Pelasgus of Arcadia.
CYMOPOLEA (Kymopoleia) The goddess of the waves, a daughter of Poseidon, and wife of the . hundred-handed giant Briareus.
CYNOCEPHALI (Kunokephaloi) A tribe of dog-headed men which lived in the wilds of north Africa or India.
CYRENE (Kyrene) A Naiad nymph huntress of Thessalian mountains. She bore Apollo a divine son named Aristaeus.
CYTHERUS (Kytheros) A river of Elis in southern Greece and its spirit.
DACTYLS (Daktyloi) Magician-smiths of the Greek island of Crete in the service of the goddess Rhea. DAEIRA A goddess nymph of the Eleusinian mysteries.
DAEMONAE (Daimonai) The female daimones or sprits, including nymphs, and various female personifications and abstractions such as Strife and Luck.
DAEMONES (Daimones) Spirits of the air, earth, sea and underworld. They included personifications such of Elpis (Hope), nature spirits like the river-gods and nymphs.
DAEMONES, AGATHI (Daimones Agathoi) Good spirits which protected and bestowed blessings on mankind.
DAEMONES ARGYREAN (Daimones Argyreoi) The men of the silver age who were immortalised as underground spirits responsible for the earth's fertility.

CACODAEMON

DAEMONES, CACO- (Kakodaimones) The harmful spirits released from teh jar of Pandora to plague mankind.
DAEMONES CHRYSEAN (Daimones Khryseoi) The men of the golden age who were immortalised as thirty thousand earth-dwelling spirits which watched over and protected mankind.
DAEMONES CHTHONIAN (Daimones Khthonioi) The daemon-spirits of the underworld.
DAEMONES GEORGICI (Daimones Georgikoi) The spirits of agriculture and farming
DAEMONES HALIAN (Daimones Halioi) The spirits of the sea.
DAEMONES NOMIAN (Daimones Nomioi) The spirits of the countryside, pastureland and wilds.
DAEMONES URANIAN (Daimones Ouranioi) The spirits of the sky.
DAEMONES PROSEOUS (Daimones Proseoos) Evil demons which haunted the dark, coastal caverns ringing the island of Rhodes.
DAMASEN A giant who slew a fearsome dragon terrorising the kingdom of Lydia.

DAPHNE

DAMIA The springtime Hora of earth's fertility.
DAMNAMENEUS One of the metal-working Dactyls.
DAMYSUS (Damysos) The swiftest of the Gigantes which fought against the gods in the Giant War. Chiron extracted the swiftness from his foot and placed it in the heel of Achilles.
DANAIS A nymph of Elis in southern Greece loved by King Pelops of Pisa.
DAPHNE A Naiad daughter of the river Peneius who was chased through the woods by amorous god Apollo. Just as he was about to capture her she was transformed into a laurel tree.
DAPHNAIE Dryad-nymphs of the laurel-tree.
DAPHNIS (1) An Oread nymph who prophesied at the Oracle of Delphi in the service of Gaea, before Apollo took over the shrine.
DAPHNIS (2) The deity of idyllic poetry.
DAULIS A Naiad nymph who gave her name to the town of Daulis in central Greece.
DEIMUS (Deimos) The daemon of terror, an attendant of the war-god Ares.
DEINO (1) One of the Graeae, hags which shared just one eye and one tooth amongst them.
DEINO (2) The Naiad nymph wife of the River Spercheius in northern Greece.
DEIPNEUS The daemon of the making of meals.
DELPHIN (Delphin) A divine dolphin who helped Poseidon track down the goddess Amphitrite and persuade her to marry to him. As reward for his service, Poseidon placed him amongst the stars as the constellation Delphinus.

DEMETER

DELPHYNE A serpent-tailed she-demon, also known as Echidna.
DEMETER The great Olympian goddess of agriculture and the fertile earth. Her Mysteries promised mankind a passage to the blessed afterlife.
DERCETIS (Derketis) A Naiad nymph of Boeotia in central Greece who ravished a local shepherd boy.
DESPOENA (Despoine) A mysterious goddess born from Poseidon's rape of Demeter in the form of the horse. Her true name was a secret only revealed to initiates of her cult.
DICAEOSYNE (Dikaiosyne) The personification of equity.
DICE (Dike) The goddess of justice, one of the three Horae (Seasons).
DICTYNNA (Diktynna) The goddess of the nets, also known as Britomarttis.
DIOGENIA (Diogeneia) A Naiad daughter of the river Cephisusin southern Greece who married an Athenian nobleman.
DIONE (1) A Titan goddess who presided over the oracle of Dodona in northern Greece. According to some she was the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus.
DIONE (2) A star-nymph daughter of the Titan Atlas who was married to the impious Lydian King Tantalus.
DIONYSUS (Dionysos) The god of wine and festivity, youngest of the twelve Olympians.

DIONYSOS

DIOPATRA (Diopatre) A Naiad nymph of Malis in northern Greece. Poseidon turned her sisters into poplar trees while he seduced her.
DIOSCURI (Dioskouroi) Demi-god twins who came to the aid of sailors caught out at sea in a storm. They appeared in the form of Saint Elmo's fire. The twins were once mortal princes, who were granted immortality and placed amongst the stars as the constellation Gemini as reward for their heroism.
DIRCE (Dirke) The Naiad nymph of a fountain sacred to Dionysus on Mount Cithaeron in the south of Greece.
DODONA (Dodone) An Oceanid nymph who gave her name to the town and shrine of Dodona in Thesprotia in northern Greece.
DODONIDES Prophetic Dryad nymphs which inhabited the oak trees at the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in the northern mountains of Greece.
DOLUS (Dolos) The male personification of trickery and deceit. He was an apprentice of the Titan Prometheus, who manufactured a maiden of lies as an identical twin to Prometheus' maiden of truth.
DORIS The Oceanid goddess of the fresh water mingling with the brine. She was the wife of the sea-god Nereus and mother of the fifty Nereides.
DRACAENAE Drakainai) She-demons with the upper bodies of beautiful women and the coiled tail of a serpent in place of legs.
DRACAENA OF SCYTHIA (Drakaina Skythia) An earth-daemon queen of Scythia with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. She stole the cattle of Heracles and demanded that the hero mate with her before she would return them.

DRACON COLCHIS

DRACONES (Drakones) The dragons of Greek mythology - giant, serpentine monsters with rows of sharp teeth.
DRACON CYCHREIDES (Drakon Kykhreides) A giant drakon driven from the Greek island of Salamis by the hero Cychreus. It fled to Eleusis where Demeter welcomed and made it her attendant.
DRACON OF COLCHIS (Drakon Kholkidos) A giant sleepless dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece hung from a tree in Colchis. It was defeated by the heroes Jason and Medea.
DRACON OF THE GIANT-WAR (Drakon Gigantomakhios) A giant serpent wielded by a Gigante during the Giant War. Athena caught it up and tossed it into the heavens to form the constellation Draco.
DRACON OF HESPERIA (Drakon Hesperios) A hundred-headed dragon which guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. It was slain by Heracles who was sent to fetch these as one of his Twelve Labours.
DRACON OF LYDIA (1) (Drakon Maionios) A giant Lydian serpent slain by Heracles in the service of Queen Omphale.
DRACON OF LYDIA (2) (Drakon Maionios) A massive serpent destroyed by the Lydian giant Damasen. After its death, the monster's mate came and restored it to life with a magical herb.
DRACON OF NEMEA (Drakon Nemeios) A giant serpent which guarded the sacred grove of Zeus in the Greek town of Nemea. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes it killed the infant Opheltes, and was destroyed by the heroes of the campaign.
DRACON OF THE OPHIOGENES (Drakon Ophiogeneikos) A Mysian dragon which impregnated a girl in a shrine of the goddess Artemis. She then gave birth to Ophiogenes (Serpent-Born), the ancestor of a tribe of men immune to the venom of serpents.
DRACON OF PITANE (Drakon Pitanios) A dragon turned to stone by the gods near Pitane in Aeolia in the heart of Greece.
DRACON OF THEBES (Drakon Ismenios) A dragon which guarded the sacred spring of Ares at Thebes, slain by the hero Cadmus when he was founding the city. Sowing its teeth into the ground he harvested a crop of warrior-men.
DRACON OF THESPIA (Drakon Thespiakos) A dragon which ravaged the village of Thespia in Boeotia, Greece. The hero Menostratus defeated it by throwing himself into its jaws wearing a suit of spiked armour.
DRACONES OF DEMETER (Drakones) A pair of winged serpents which drew the flying chariot of the goddess Demeter and her hero Triptolemos.

DRACONS MEDEA

DRACONES OF MEDEA (Drakones) A pair of winged serpents which drew the chariot of the witch Medea across the air.
DRACONES OF RHODES (Drakones Rhodioi) A giant dragon and its spawn which infested the Greek island of Rhodes. The beasts were destroyed by the hero Phorbas and the island freed.
DRACONES OF TROY (Drakones Troiades) Two giant sea-serpents sent by Poseidon to silence the Trojan priest Laocoon when he was about to warn the Trojans about the ruse of the Wooden Horse.
DRYADS (Dryades) Nymphs of the trees. The Oread Dryad inhabited oaks and pines, while the Meliae were creatures of the mountain-ash.
DRYOPE A Dryopian princess who was transformed into a Hamadryad by the Nymphs.
DYSAULES A divinity of the Eleusinian Mysteries who presided over the ploughing of fields.
DYSIS The eleventh of the twelve Horae, goddesses of the hours, who presided over the hour of sunset.
DYSNOMIA (Dysnomia) The female personification of lawlessness.
ECECHERIA (Ekekheria) The female personification of truce. ECHIDNA (1) (Ekhidna) A deadly she-dragon with the upper form of a beautiful nymph, and the tail of a writhing serpent in place of legs. She mated with the hundred-headed giant Typhon and spawned a brood of terrible monsters.
ECHIDNA (2) (Ekhidna) An Arcadian she-dragon slain by the hero Argos Panoptes.
ECHIDNADES (Ekhidnades) A serpent-footed ally of the Titans slain by Ares in the Titan-War.
ECHO (Ekho) An Oread attendant of Hera who distracted the goddess with endless chatter while her husband Zeus was having affairs with other women. Hera caught onto the ruse and took away the nymph's voice, cursing her to repeat the last words of others. Echo later fell in love with the boy Narcissus, but was spurned and in her grief, wasted away until only her echoing voice was left..
EIDOTHEA (1) A sea-nymph daughter of the seal-herder Proteus who helped Menelaus capture the prophetic old sea-god.
EIDOTHEA (2) A nymph of Mount Othrys in the Greek region of Malis loved by the god Poseidon.

GOLDEN HINDS

EIDYIA The Oceanid nymph wife of King Aeetes of Colchis.
EILEITHYIA The Greek goddess of childbirth, a daughter of Zeus and Hera.
EIRENE The goddess of peace, one of the three Horae (Seasons).
ELAPHOI CHRYSOCEROI (Elaphoi Khrysokeroi) Five golden-horned deer sacred to the goddess Artemis. Four of them drew her chariot while the fifth, known as the Cerynitian Hind, roamed free.
ELATREUS One of the metal-working Cyclop giants.
ELECTRA (1) (Elektra) The Oceanid of the amber sun-lit rim of breaking storm clouds, wife of the wondrous sea-god Thaumas and mother of the rainbow Iris and the gusty Harpies.
ELECTRA (2) (Elektra) A Pleiad nymph who was the mother of Dardanus, ancestor of the kings of Troy, by Zeus.
ELETE The eighth of the twelve goddesses of the hours (Horae), who presided over the hour of mid-afternoon.
ELEUS (Eleos) The female personification of mercy.
ELEUSIS The eponymous nymph of Eleusis and the wife of the town's first king. She was one of the attendants of Demeter in the Mysteries.
ELPIS The female personification of hope, the only spirit to remain trapped inside Pandora's box.
EMPUSA (Empousa) An underworld she-daemon with flaming hair, a leg of brass, and the leg of an ass who terrorized men in the dark of night.
ENCELADUS (Enkelados) A Gigante crushed by Athena beneath the island of Sicily during the Giant War. His restless turnings fed the fires of volcanic Mount Etna.
ENDEIS A Nymph daughter of the centaur Chiron who some say was the mother of the hero Peleus.
ENDYMION A young shepherd loved by the moon-goddess Selene who granted his wish for immortality in a state of eternal slumber.

EOS

ENYALIUS (Enyalios) A minor daemon of war, one of the sons of Ares.
ENYO (1) The goddess of war, a battlefield companion of Ares.
ENYO (2) One of the Graeae, old hags who shared one eye and one tooth amongst them.
EOS The Greek goddess of the dawn who was cursed by Aphrodite with an insatiable appetite for men, falling in love with one after another - Cephalus, Tithonus, Phaethon and Orion.
EOSPHORUS (Eosphoros) The divinity of the morning star (Venus), herald of the dawn.
EPHIALTES (1) A Gigante shot in both eyes by Apollo and Heracles with arrows during the Giant War.
EPHIALTES (2) A giant son of Poseidon who with his twin brother Otus tried to storm the heavens by piling three mountains one upon the other, until they were destroyed by Apollo and Artemis.
EPHYRA The eponymous Oceanid nymph of the town of Ephyra (Corinth), in the south of Greece.
EPIALES The underworld daemon of nightmares.
EPIDOTES The daemon of the rites of purification. She was an attendant of Apollo at the Greek shrine Delphi who molified the wrath of the Furies.
EPIMELIDES Rustic nymphs responsible for protecting sheep flocks and apple orchards.
EPIMETHEUS The Titan-god of afterthought who foolishly accepted the first woman, Pandora, from the godswith her box of evils.
EPIONE The goddess of the soothing of pain, wife of the divine physician Asclepius.
EPIPHRON The Greek personification of shrewdness and careful consideration.
ERASINUS (Erasinos) A river of Argos in southern Greece and its watery spirit.
ERATO (1) The Muse of love poetry.
ERATO (2) An Arcadian Dryad nymph and prophetess of Pan who became the wife of the Arcadian king Arcas.
EREBUS (Erebos) The primordial spirit of darkness, consort of Night, and father of Day and Light..
ERIDANUS (Eridanos) A river of northern Europe or Italy and its fish-tailed deity.

ERINYES

ERINYES The three serpent-haired goddesses of vengeance and punishment which were born of the blood of the castrated Heaven (Uranus).
ERIS The goddess of strife and discored who stalked the battlefield. She helped the Trojan War by casting a golden apple addresed "to the fairest" amongst the company of goddesses.
ERITES The twin personifications of strife. The good Eris was represented competitive rivalry while the bad was the spirit of hateful discord.
EROS (1) The protogenos (primordial deity) of sexual desire and procreation. He was one of the first to emerge at creation.
EROS (2) The winged godling of love who struck down men with his love-tipped arrows.
EROTES The winged, child-like gods of love, also known as Cupids.
ERSA (Herse) The goddess of the dew.
ERYMANTHIAN BOAR (Hus Erymanthios) A giant boar which Heracles was sent to fetch as one of his twelve labours.
EUBOEA (1) (Euboia) A Naiad daughter of the river Asopus who was abducted by Poseidon to the Greek island of Euboea.
EUBOEA (2) (Euboia) A Naiad daughter of the river Asterion in the Argive region of southern Greece, who with sisters Acraea and Prosymna, nursed the infantHera.
EUBOLUS (Euboulos) The daemon of the ploughing of the earth, a minor deity of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
EUCLEIA (Eukleia) The goddess of good repute, patron of the young bride..
EUDAEMONIA (Eudaimonia) The goddess of happiness, prosperity and opulence. She was one of the younger Charites (Graces) and a companion of the goddess Aphrodite.

EROS

EUDORA One of the five starry nymphs known as the Hyades.
EUNOMIA One of the three Horae (Seasons), and goddess of good order and the spring pastures. She was also an attendant of the goddess Aphrodite.
EUNOSTOS (Eunostus) The goddess of the flour mill.
EUPHEME (1) The spirit of eloquence, nurse of the nine Muses and a love of the goat-horned Pan
EUPHEME (2) The personification of eloquence, one of the younger Charites (Graces).
EUPHRATES The deity of the Assyrian River Euphrates.
EUPHROSYNE The ancient Greek goddess of mirth and merriment, one of the three Graces (Charites).
EUPORIA One of the Horae or Seasons, and the goddess of agricultural abundance.
EUPRAXIA The female personification of good conduct.
EUROPA An Oceanid who gave her name to the continent of Europe.
EUROTAS A river in the Greek region of Laconia and its ancient divnity who fathered the first of the kings of Sparta.
EURUS (Euros) The Greek god of the east wind.
EURYALE One of the immortal Gorgons, a sister of Medusa.
EURYALUS (Euryalos) A one-eyed, metal-working Cyclops giant.
EURYBIA The ancient goddess of the power of the sea, wife of the Titan Crius.
EURYMEDON One of the Cabeiri gods.
EURYNOME (1) The Titan goddess of the water pasture, and mother of the Charites (Graces) by Zeus.
EURYNOME (2) A Queen of the Titans, wife of King Ophion. She and her husband were deposed by Cronus and Rhea and cast down from heaven into the Ocean-stream.
EURYNOMUS (Eurynomos) A black-blue skinned daemon of the underworld which devoured the flesh of the dead.
EURYTION (1) A Thessalian centaur who tried to carry off the bride of king Peirithous on her wedding day, sparking a war between the Lapiths and the centaurs.
EURYTION (2) A Peloponnesian centaur killed by Heracles when it came demanding the hand of Mnesimache, princess of Olenus, in marriage.
EURYTUS (Eurytos) A Gigante slain by Dionysus in the Giant War.
EUSEBIA The female personification of piety and filial respect. Her husband was Nomus, the spirit of law.

GAEA

EUTERPE The Muse of lyric poetry.
EUTHEMIA A nymph of the Greek island of Cos who was struck down by the arrows of Artemis when she refused to honour the goddess.
EUTHENIA The goddess of prosperity, one of the younger Charites, daughters of Hephaestus.
EUTYCHIA The spirit of good fortune.
EVADNE (Euadne) A Aaiad daughter of the river Strymon wed to Argus, the first king of the Argive region in southern Greece.
EVENUS (Euenos) A river of Aetolia in the west of Greece and its divinity.
FATES (Moirai) The three goddesses of fate.
FURIES (Erinyes) The three serpent-haired goddesses of vengeance called Erinyes.
For other Greek names beginning with F look under Ph (eg Phaethon for Faethon, Phorcys for Forcus)
GAAEUS (Gaaeus) One of the fish-tailed marine gods, a herder of the fish of the sea.
GAEA (Gaia) The primordial goddess (protogenia) of the earth, mother of both gods and men. In the ancient tale of divine succession, she first conspired to have her husband Uranus deposed, and afterwards for her son Cronus to be supplanted in turn by Zeus.
GALATEA (Galateia) One of the fifty Nereids, Galatea was wooed by the Cyclops Polyphemus.
GALENE The Nereid nymph of calm seas.
GANYMEDES A handsome prince of Troy abducted to Olympus by Zeus to become the cup-bearer of the gods.
GEGENEES A tribe of six-armed Mysian giants slain by the Argonauts.

GANYMEDES

GELUS (Gelos) The happy god of laughter.
GERAS The wrinkled, shrunken old daemon of old age.
GERYON A giant, three-bodied man who possessed a fabulous herd of red-skinned cattle on the Sunset Isle. Heracles slew him when sent to fetch these as his tenth labour.
GIGANTES (1) The giants of Greek myth which included beings like the Gigantes who waged war on the gods, the Aloedae, Typhon, Antaeus, Charybdis, Orion, Tityus, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires.
GIGANTES (2), HECA- (Heka-Gigantes) A hundred Giants born of Tartarus and Gaea which were incited by their mother to wage war on the gods. They were slaughtered in the furious battle which ensued.
GLAUCIA (Glaukia) A Naiad daughter of the river Scamander of Troy who fell in love with one of the companions of Heracles.
GLAUCUS (Glaukos) A Greek fisherman transformed into a fish-tailed sea-god after tasting a magical herb.
GORGO The primal Gorgon slain by Zeus who crafted the aegis-shield from its skin.
GORGONS (Gorgones) Three monstrous winged she-daemones with snakes for hair, broad, flat noses, wide-staring eyes, protruding tusks and lolling tongues. They had claws of bronze and golden wings and a gaze which would turn man or beast to stone.
GORGYRA A nymph of the underworld, wife of the river of pain, Acheron.
GRACES (Kharites) Goddesses of beauty, joy and happiness called the Charites.
GRAEAE (Graiai) Female daemones of the white froth of the sea, born grey-haired and aged who shared but one and tooth amongst them. Perseus stole these from them to demand they show him the path to the Gorgons.

GRIFFIN

GRATION A Gigante slain by Artemis with her bow in the Giant War.
GRENICUS (Grenikos) A river of Troy and its deity.
GRIFFINS (Grypes) A fabulous creature with the fore-quarters of an eagle and the rear-part of a horse.
GYES One of the three hundred-handed, fifty-headed Hecatoncheir giants.
GYGE (Gygaie) A lake of Lydia and its watery spirit.
GYMNASTICA (Gymnastika) The fourth of the twelve goddesses of the hours (Horae), who presided over the morning hour set aside for gymnastics.
HADES (Haides) The king of the underworld and lord of the dead. He was one of the three powerful sons of Cronus who, with his brothers Zeus and Poseidon, drew lots for the division of the cosmos after defeating the Titans. HAGNO An Oceanid nymph who, with her sisters Theiosa and Neda, nursed the infant Zeus in the land of Arcadia in central Greece.
HALIA A sea nymph of the Greek island of Rhodes who bore Poseidon six sons. When these refused Aphrodite port on the island, she caused them to go mad and they raped their own mother. Poseidon then cast them down into caverns beneath the island, while Halia ("brine") leapt into the sea and was dissolved.
HALIAE (Haliai) Nymphs of the sea, daughters of the various marine gods. Amongst their number were the fifty Nereides.
HALIMEDES A one-eyed, metal-working Cyclops giant.
HAMADRYADES (Hamadryades) Tree nymphs whose life was bound to a tree.

HADES

HAMADRYAS The first oak tree nymph and the mother of the Hamadryads of lesser trees, such as the cherry, ash, elm and cornel.
HARMONIA (1) The Greek goddess of harmony and unity who married the hero Cadmus, king of the Greek city of Thebes, in a wedding attended by all gods. After ruling Thebes for many years the two were transfered to Elysium and a life of eternal bliss.
HARMONIA (2) A nymph of the Acmonian wood who became the mother of the first of the Amazons by Ares.
HARPIES (Harpyiai) Ravenous bird-women, known as the "hounds of Zeus," which caught people away in their whirlwinds, never to be seen again. Once Zeus sent them to torment the impious king Phineus, and they snatched away his food and drink until driven off by the Argonauts.
HARPINA A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asopus in southern Greece who was carried off to Elis by Ares.
HARPOCRATES (Harpokrates) The young boy-god of silence who held a finger to his lips to insist on quiet.
HEBE The Greek goddess of youth who became the wife of Heracles upon his ascension to Olympus.
HEBRUS (Hebros) A river of Thrace, north of Greece, and its deity.
HECAERGE (Hekaerge) An Hyperborean nymph huntress who accompanied the goddess Artemis.

HECATE

HECATE (Hekate) The Greek goddess of witchcraft, ghosts and necromancy. She helped Demeter in her search for her daughter Persephone, and afterwards became a minister of the girl in the underworld.
HECATERIDES (Hekaterides) Five rustic nymphs who were the mothers of the mountain spirits - the Oreiad nymphs, Satyrs and Curetes.
HECATERUS (Hekateros) A rustic spirit of the country dance.
HECATONCHEIRES (Hekatonkheires) Three fifty-headed, hundred-handed giants which were the force behind violent storms. They were imprisoned beneath the earth by their father Uranus, then their brother Cronus, until finally released by Zeus who called upon their strength in the Titan War.
HEDONE The spirit of pleasure, a daughter of Eros (Love) and Psyche (the Soul).
HEDYLOGUS (Hedylogos) The daemon of sweet-talk, one of the winged Erotes (Love-Spirits).
HEGETORIA A nymph of the Greek island of Rhodes who wed its king Ochimus.
HELEIONOMAE (Heleionomai) Naiad-nymphs of marshes.
HELIADES Beautiful nymph daughters of the sun-god Helius who were transformed into amber-weeping poplar trees when they stood in grief mourning the death of their brother Phaethon, cast to his death from the chariot of the sun.

HELIUS

HELICON (Helikon) The craggy old deity of a mountain in central Greece.
HELIUS (Helios) The solar-god who drove a chariot of winged horses across the sky wearing the shining aureole-crown of the sun upon his head.
HELLE The goddess of the Hellespont Sea which divides the continents of Europe and Asia. She was once a mortal girl who had fled from her homeland in Greece on the back of a golden-fleeced ram, but losing her grip slipped into the sea where she was transformed into a goddess by Poseidon..
HEMERA (Hemere) The primordial goddess (protogenia) of the day, a daughter of Night and Darkness and sister of Light.
HEMITHEA A goddess of the Asian Chersonnese. Once a mortal princess of the Greek island of Delos, she leapt into the sea to escape the wrath of her father where she was transformed into a divinity by Apollo.
HEPHAESTUS (Hephaistos) The crippled Greek god of fire, volcanism, smiths and craftsmen, and one of the twelve great Olympian gods.
HERA The queen of the gods, and goddess of heaven, women and marriage. She was one of the the twelve great Olympians who ruled the cosmos.
HERACLES (Herakles) The greatest of all the Greek heroes who was famed for the completion of the Twelve Labours. Upon his death he ascended to Olympus to join the ranks of the gods, and was thereupon titled the protector of man.
HERCYNA (Herkyna) A nymph of Boeotia in central Greece who was a companion of the goddess Persephone.
HERMAPHRODITUS (Hermaphroditos) A handsome son of Hermes and Aphrodite who was desired by the nymph Salmacis. She prayed that they might forever be together, and some deity answered by merging their forms into one, creating the first hermaphrodite - a creature part male and part female. As a minor divinities he-she was numbered amongst the Erotes (Love-Spirits).
HERMES The great Olympian god of animal husbandry, fertility of the herds, trade, messengers, travel, merchants and athletes. He was also the personal herald of Zeus, king of the gods.

HERMES

HERMUS (Hermos) A river of Lydia and its watery deity.
HEROPHILE A daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite.
HESIONE The Oceanid nymph wife of the Titan Prometheus.
HESPERIA A Naiad daughter of the Trojan river Cebren.
HESPERIDES Goddess-nymphs of the evening and sunsets. The lived on the Red Isle in the westernmost corner of the world where they tended the tree of golden apples.
HESPERIS The tenth of the twelve goddesses of the hours, or Horae, who presided over the hour of dusk.
HESPERUS (Hesperos) The deity of the evening star (Venus), herald of the evening.
HESTIA The Greek goddess of hearth and home, a virgin goddess, sister of Zeus and one of the twelve great Olympian gods.
HESYCHIA (Hesykhia) The female personification of quiet and tranquility.
HIEROMNEME A Naiad nymph daughter of the Trojan river Simoeis who wed a Dardanian prince named Assaracus.
HILAEIRA One of the Leucippides, two princesses of Messenia in southern Greece, who became the goddess-wives of the Dioscuri twins.
HIMALIA A nymph of the Greek island of Rhodes seduced by Zeus when he was on the island battling the evil of the Telchines.
HIMERUS (Himeros) The daemon (spirit) of sexual desire, one of the winged Erotes (Love-Spirits). He appeared at the birth of Aphrodite and became one of her constant companions.
HIPPALECTRYON (Hippalektryon) A strange flying beast with the fore-quarters of a horse and the wings and rear-parts of a rooster.
HIPPOCAMPI (Hippokampoi) A fabulous marine creature with the fore-parts of a hrose and the rear-quarters of a fish. Hippocampi drew the chariot of Poseidon and were ridden as mounts by other marine gods.
HIPPOI ATHANATOI Immortal horses, children of the Winds, which drove the chariots of the gods. A few fortunate heroes also received them as gifts.
HIPPOLYTUS (Hippolytos) A Gigante slain by Hermes with his sword in the Giant War.
HOMADUS (Homados) The male personification of battlenoise.
HOMONOIA The female personification of concord and unity.
HOPLODAMUS (Hoplodamos) The leader of the Curetes or Gigantes who protected Rhea from the wrath of Cronus after she had hidden away their child Zeus.
HORAE (1) (Horai) Goddesses of the seasons and the heavenly measures of time. They presided over the facets of order - peace, justice and good governance.
HORAE (2) (Horai) Goddesses of the twelve hours of day.
HORCUS (Horkos) The male personification of the binding oath who punished the oath-breaker.
HORMES The male personfication of effort.
HYADES Five nymphs, daughters of the Titan Atlas, who nursed the infant Dionysus. They were set amongst the stars as the constellation Hyades, whose rising marked the arrival of the spring rains.
HYALE One of the attendant nymphs of the goddess Artemis.
HYAS A water-bearing son of the Titan Atlas who was killed by a lion and placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aquarius.
HYBRIS The female personification of insolence and excessive pride.
HYDASPES An Indian river-spirit who was defeated in battle by Dionysus during the Indian War.

HYDRA

HYDRA A fabulous nine-headed water-snake which grew two heads for every one which was cut off. Heracles defeated the beast by applying a burning brand to the severed neck stumps.
HYDRUS (Hydros) The progotenos (primordial deity) of fresh water.
HYGEIA The goddess of good health.
HYLLUS (Hyllos) A Lydian giant.
HYLONOME A female centaur who killed herself when her husband the centaur Cyllarus was slain in the battle with the Lapiths.
HYMENAEUS (Hymenaios) The spirit of the wedding ceremony and bridal hymn, who was numbered amongst the Erotes (Love-Deities).
HYPERBOREAN GIANTS (Gigantes Hyperboreioi) Three giant sons of the North-Wind who were the priests of the fabulous Hyperborean tribe of the far north.
HYPBERBOREANS (Hyperboreoi) A tribe of blessed men favoured by Apollo who dwelt in a land of eternal spring far beyond the wintry moutains of the North-Wind.
HYPERIA (Hypereia) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Inachus in southern Greece.
HYPERION One of the six elder Titans, who represented the light of heaven and the cosmic ordering of days and months.
HYPNUS (Hypnos) The winged daemon (spirit) of sleep.
HYSMINAE (Hysminai) The personifications of fighting, ruthless spirits of the battlefield
IACCHUS(Iakkhos) A torch-bearing deity of the processions of the Eleusinian Mysteries who personified the ritual cry "iakkhe". He was a daemon attendant of the goddess Demeter. IAPETUS (Iapetos) One of the six elder Titans, and the ancestor of mankind, who represented mortality.
IASION A springtime consort of the goddess Demeter and patron-deity of the Samothracian Mysteries.
IASO The goddess of recovery, one of the daughters of the divine physicianAsclepius.
ICELUS (Ikelos) A daemon (spirit) of prophetic dreams who appeared in the sleep of kings as an animal shaped phantasm. His brothers, Morpheus and Phantasus, assumed the forms of men and inanimate objects.
ICHTHYES (Ikhthyes) A pair of large fish which rescued the goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros when they were fleeing the raging monster Typhon.

ICHTHYOCENTAUR

ICHTHYOCENTAURS (Ikhthyokentauroi) Two fish-tailed marine centaurs, named Aphros and Bythos, who carried new-born goddess Aphrodite ashore in a cockle-shell. They had the upper-bodies of men, and the lower-quarters of fish-tailed horses.
IDA A nymph of Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete. She was one of the nurses of the god Zeus who nursed him with the milk of the goat Amaltheia.
IDAIA A nymph of Mount Ida in the region of Troy, wife of the River Scamander.
IDYIA (Eidyia) The youngest of the Oceanides and wife of Aeetes king of Colchis.
ILISSUS (Ilissos) A river of Athens and its watery spirit.
IMBRASUS (Imbrasos) A river of the Greek island of Samos and its deity.
INACHUS (Inakhos) A river of Argos in southern Greece and its spirit. When Poseidon and Hera were contesting for dominion of Argos, he ruled in favour of Hera, causing Poseidon to dry up his stream.
INO A woman transformed into a sea-goddess after she leapt into the sea to escape her crazed husband. She became a protectress of sailors who rescued men from drowning.
IO A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Inachus in the south of Greece. She was loved by Zeus who transformed her into a cow to hide her from the jealous gaze of his wife Hera. But the goddess was not fooled and sent a maddening gladfly to torment Io which drove her to wander all the way to Egypt, where she gave birth to Epaphus, ancestor of all the Pharaohs.
IOKE The female personification of onslaught, pursuit and rout in battle.
IONIDES Four Naiad nymph daughters of the river Cytherus in the south of Greece whose springs were reputed to possess healing properties.
IRENE (Eirene) The goddess of peace and the season of spring, one of the three Horae (Seasons).

IRIS

IRIS The golden-winged goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.
ISMENE A Naiad nymph daughter of the River Asopus in the south of Greece and wife of King Argus, the ancient patronym of the Argive region..
ISMENIS A Naiad daughter of the River Ismenos of Boeotia in central Greece loved by the god Faunus.
ISMENUS (Ismenos) A river of Boeotia in the heart of Greece and its deity.
ISTRUS (Istros) A deity of the Scythian river Danube.
ITHAX The messenger of the Titans.
IYNX The goddess-nymph of a magical love-charm known as the iynx. The iynx was a spinning wheel with a wryneck bird attached.
JACCHUS (Iakkhos) The torch-bearing daemon who led the procession of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
JAPETUS (Iapetos) One of the six-Titan brothers imprisoned by Zeus in the pit of Tartarus.
JASION (Iasion) Aspring-time consort of the goddess Demeter.
JASON (Iason) A great Thessalian hero who led the Argonauts in the quest for the Golden Fleece.
JINX (Iynx) The nymph of the magical love-charm known as the iynx.
KERES The monstrous female daemons of violent death which swooped over the battlefield in the thousands, ripping the souls of the dying from their bodies and casting them down into Hades. 
LACHESIS (Lakhesis) One of the three Fates. LADON (1) A hundred-headed dragon which guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. It was slain by Heracles.
LADON (2) A river of Arcadia and its god.
LAELAPS (Lailaps) A magical dog that was destined always to catch is prey. It was turned to stone by Zeus when it was set to chase the Teumessian Fox - a beast tha was fated never to be caught.
LAESTRYGONES (Laistrygones) A tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus on his travels.
LAMIA (1), LIBYAN (Lamia Libys) A terrifying phantom who preyed on children. She had the ability to remove her eyes.

LETO

LAMIA (2), CORINTHIAN (Lamia Korinthia) A vampiress who seduced a young Corinthian man in order to drink his blood. Her illusions were exposed by a sage and she was driven away.
LAMIAE (Lamiai) Vampiric monsters who appeared as ghostly, handsome women. They lured young men to their beds to drank their blood and fed on their flesh.
LAMIDES Naiad nymphs of the river Lamos who nursed the infant Dionysus.
LAMOS A river of Cilicia or Mount Helicon in Boeotia and its god. He and his sons and daughters were nurses of the god Dionysus.
LAMPADES The torch-bearing nymphs of Hades. They formed part of the retinue of Hecate in her night-time jaunts.
LAMPETIA A nymph daughter of Helios who cared for her father's sheep-flocks on the island of Thrinacie.
LANGIA The Naiad nymph of a Nemean spring.
LELANTUS (Lelantos) One of the Titanes.
LENAE (Lenai) The Satyr-daemones of the wine-vat. They treaded the grapes of Dionysus with their dance.
LENEUS One of the drunken old Silens in the retinue of Dionysus. He was the demi-god of the treading of grapes in the wine trough.
LEON A lion-headed Gigante slain and stripped of his skin by Heracles in the giant-wars.
LETHE (1) The female personification of forgetfulness.
LETHE (2) The goddess of the underworld river of oblivion.
LETO The Titan goddess of motherhood and womanly demure. She was loved by the god Zeus, and after a pregnancy hounded across the earth by the goddess Hera, she gave birth to twins, Apollo and Artemis.
LEUCE (Leuke) An Oceanid nymph loved by the god Hades. She was carried off to Elysium and transformed into a holy white poplar tree.
LEUCIPPIDES Two maidens loved by the Dioscuri who were granted immortality as the wives of these twins.
LEUCOTHEA (Leukothea) A princess of Thebes who was transformed into a goddess when she leapt into the sea with her infant son. She was a goddess who came to the aide sailors in distress.
LIBETHRIDES (Leibethrides) Naiad nymphs of the sacred Boeotian and Pierian springs of the goddess Muses.
LIBYA (Libye) The Oceanid nymph who gave her name to the continent of Libya (Africa).

LEUCOTHEA

LILAEA (Lilaia) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Cephisus.
LIMNAEE A Naiad nymph of the Indian river Ganges.
LIMNATIDES Naiad-nymphs of lakes.
LIMONIDES (Leimonides) Nymphs of meadows and pastures.
LIMOS The emaciated female personification of hunger.
LIPS The god of the South-West wind.
LIRIOPE A Naiad nymph loved by the river-god Cephisus. She was the mother of the vain youth Narcissus.
LITAE (Litai) The frail and elderly goddesses of prayers followed in the footsteps of Ate, the bringer of ruin.
LOTIS A Naiad nymph who fled the embrace of the god Priapus and was transformed into a lotus flower.
LOXO An Hyperborean nymph attendant of Artemis.
LUPA (Lupe) The female personification of pain.
LYCANTHROPES (Lykanthropoi) Men who could assume the shape of wolves. They are regarded as "proto-werewolves" of later folklore .
LYCUS (Lykos) One of three satyr messengers of the god Dionysus.
LYSSA The female personification of madness and mad rage.
MACARIA (Makaria) The goddess of a blessed death or afterlife. MACHAE (Makhai) The personifications of battles and combats.
MACRIS (Makris) A rustic nymph of the island of Euboea, who nursed the infant god Dionysus.
MACROCEPHALI (Makrokephaloi) A fabulous tribe of African men with long heads.
MAEANDER (Maiandros) A river of Caria and its god.
MAERA (1) (Maira) A star-nymph daughter of the Titan Atlas, and wife of the Arcadian King Tegeates. She was the goddess of the scorching dog-star Sirios.
MAERA (2) (Maira) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Erasinus who, with her sisters, was an attendant of the goddess Britomartis.
MAIA A Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. She was the mother of the god Hermes by Zeus.
MANAIE (Maniai) The female personification of madness and crazed frenzy.

MEDUSA

MANTICORE (Mantikhoras) A creature of Persia with the body of a lion, the face of a man, and a spiked tail.
MARON One of the drunken old Silen gods. He was the charioteer of the god Dionysus.
MARSYAS A flute-playing satyr who challenged Apollo to a musical contest. The god won and flailed the satyr alive as punishment.
MATTON The daemon of baking and the kneeding of bread.
MEDUSA (Medousa) A serpent-haired Gorgon who was slain by the hero Perseus. When she was beheaded her two children by Poseidon were born from her bloody neck.
MEGAERA (Megaira) One of the three Erinyes.
MELAENA (Melaine) A Naiad nymph of Mount Parnassus loved by the god Apollo.
MELANIPPE A prophetic nymph daughter of the centaur Chiron. She was transformed into a mare as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods.
MELIA (1) The Oceanid nymph wife of the Argive river-god Inachus.
MELIA (2) The Oceanid nymph of the sacred Ismenian spring of Thebes. She was loved by the god Apollo.
MELIA (3) The nymph mother of the Pelopennesian centaurs by the god Silenus.
MELIA (4) A nymph of Bithynia loved by the god Poseidon.
MELIA (5) A Bithynian nymph loved by the god Silenus.
MELIA (6) A nymph of the island of Ceos loved by Apollo.
MELIADES Dryad-nymphs of fruit-trees and orchards.
MELIAE (Meliai) Nymphs of ash-trees and honey bees. They were born born from the blood of the castrated sky-god Uranus along with the Giants and Curetes. The Melaie were the wives of the Silver Race of Man, and so the ancestresses of mankind.
MELIBOEA (1) (Meliboia) The Oceanid nymph wife of the first Arcadian king Pelasgus.
MELIBOEA (2) (Meliboia) An Oceanid nymph of Syria loved by the river Orontes.
MELICERTES (Melikertes) A boy transformed into a sea-god, after his mother Ino leapt with him into the sea.
MELINOE A spectral underworld goddess who haunted the night with her train of ghosts.
MELISSAE (Melissai) Nymphs of honey bees.
MELISSEUS The old Curete god of honey and honey-mead. His two daughters, Ida and Adrasteia, were nurses of the god Zeus.
MELITE (1) A Naiad nymph of the island of the Phaeacians. She was seduced by Heracles.
MELITE (2) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Erasinus who, with her sisters, was an attendant of the goddess Britomartis.
MELPOMENE The Muse of tragedy.
MEMPHIS A Naiad nymph daughter of the River Nile. She was the wife of the very first Egyptian king Epaphus, who named his capital after her.
MENAE (Menai) The goddess nymphs of the fifty lunar months of the four-year Olympiad. They were daughters of Selene the Moon.
MENIPPE A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Peneius.
MENOETES (Menoites) A daemon of the underworld, he was the herdsman of the cattle of Hades.
MENOETIUS (Menoitios) The Titan god of rash anger. He was blasted into Erebus with a thunderbolt by Zeus.
MEROPE One of the Pleiad star-nymphs, the wife of the impious Corinthian King Sisyphos. Blushing in shame for her husband's crimes, her star shone only faintly.
MESSEIS The Naiad nymph of an Argive spring, a daughter of the River Inachus.
MESSEMBRIA The sixth of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the hour of noon.
METHE The goddess nymph of drunkenness. She was a companion of Dionysus.
METHONE The nymph wife of the first Pierian King Pierus.
METIS (1) The Titan goddess of good counsel. She was an adviser to Zeus in the Titan War, but when it was prophesied that she would bear a son greater than his father, the god put her away inside his belly. Their daughter Athena was born from the cracked skull of the god.
METIS (2) A Naiad nymph of the Lydian river Meles. According to legend, she was the mother of the poet Homer.
METOPE The Naiad nymph wife of the Argive river-god Asopus.
MIDEIA A nymph of the Boeotian town of Aspledon loved by the god Poseidon.
MIMAS One of the Gigantes who slain in the giant-war by Hephaestus with barage of red-hot metal.
MINOS A lawmaking King of Crete who was appointed a judge of the dead in the underworld.

MINOTAUR

MINOTAUR (Minotauros) A bull-headed monster monster of Crete who was locked away in the labyrinth by King Minos. He was fed a diet of sacrificial youths and maidens until slain by the hero Theseus.
MINTHA (Minthe) A Naiad nymph daughter of the underworld river-god Cocytus. She was transformed into a mint plant by Persephone when her affair with the god Hades was discovered.
MISA A primeval goddess of the Orphic mysteries.
MNEMOSYNE The Titan goddess of memory, words and language. She bore Zeus the nine goddess Muses after spending a night lengthened ninefold in the arms of the god.
MOIRAE (Moirai) The three goddesses of fate who spun and cut the thread of human life.
MOMUS (Momos) The male personfication of mockery. He was thrown out of heaven by Zeus for his scarping criticisms of the gods.
MONOCERATA (Monokerata) A breed of magical one-horned horses (unicorns) native to India.
MOREA The Hamadryad nymph of the mulberry bush.
MORIA A Lydian nymph whose brother Tylos was slain by a dragon. She discovered a herb which restored the boy to life.
MORMOLYCEIA (Mormolykeia) Vampiric ghostly women.
MORPHEUS A god of prophetic dreams who appeared in the sleep of kings as a human shaped phantasm. His two brothers, Icelus and Phantasus, assumed the forms respectively of animals and inanimate objects.
MORUS (Morus) The male personification of the doom.

MUSES

MUSES (1) (Mousai) The nine goddesses of music, song and dance, who inspired poets.
MUSES (2) (Mousai) The three Titan Muses. The foremost of these was Mneme, mother of the younger nine.
MUSES (3) Mousai) The three Delphic Muses, daughters of the god Apollo.
MUSICA (Mousika) The third of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the morning hour of music.
MYCENE (Mykene) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Inachus after whom the city of Mycenae was named.
MYLINUS (Mylinos) A giant of the island of Crete vanquished by Zeus.
MYRMECES INDIAN (Myrmekes Indikoi) Gigantic ants which guarded the gold fields of the Indian desert.
MYRTOESSA A Naiad nymph of the Arcadian town of Megalopolis.
MYSIAN NAIADES (Naiades Mysiai) Naiad Nymphs of a spring in Mysia who kidnapped the boy Hylas, a handsome young companion of Heracles.
MYSTIS The rustic nymph of the Dionysian Mysteries. She was a nurse of the god on the island of Euboea.
NAIADS (Naiades) Fresh-water nymphs. They were daughters of Oceanus and the River-gods. There were various types: Crinaeae (of fountains), Pegaeae (of springs), Eleionomae (of marshes), Potameides (of rivers), and Limnades (of lakes). NAIS The Naiad nymph wife of the old god Silenus.
NACOLE (Nakole) The eponymous nymph of the Phrygian town of Nacoleia.
NANA A Naiad nymph daughter of the Phrygian river Sangarius. She was impregnated by an almond which fell from the tree grown from the severed male genitals of the goddess Agdistis.
NAPAEAE (Napaiai) Dryad-Nymphs of vales and dells.
NEADES Gigantic monsters which roamed the island of Samos. They could split apart the earth with their roar.
NEAERA (1) (Neaira) A nymph loved by the sun-god Helius. She bore him the nymphs Lampetia and Phaethusa.
NEAERA (2) (Neaira) The Naiad nymph wife of the Thracian river-god Strymon.

NEMEAN LION

NEAERA (3) (Neaira) A Nymph of Lydian Mount Sipylus. She was seduced by a local prince.
NEDA One of the elder Oceanides and the goddess of the Arcadian river Neda. She was one of the Arcadian wet-nurses of the infant Zeus.
NEICEA (Neikea) The female personifications of grievance and quarrel.
NEMEA The Naiad nymph of the town of Nemea. She was a daughter of either Zeus and Selene or the river Asopus.
NEMEAN LION (Leon Nemeios) A magical lion which was invulnerable to the weapons of man. It was slain by Heracles who strangled it to death and made a cloak of its skin.
NEMESIS The goddess of indignation and retribution for hybristic behaviour and undeserved good fortune. After being seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan, she lay the egg from which Helen was hatched.
NEPHELAE (Nephelai) Nymphs of the clouds.
NEPHELE (1) A cloud nymph which Zeus formed into the likeness of his wife Hera. When the hero Ixion raped her, he was condemned to eternal torture. The Nymphe spawned the tribe of centaurs from the unwanted union.
NEPHELE (2) The cloud nymph wife of the hero Athamas. When her children Phrixus and Helle were about to be sacrificed to the gods she sent the flying golden-fleeced ram to rescue them from the altar.
NEPHELE (3) One of the attendant nymphs of Artemis.
NEREIDS (Nereides) The fifty sea-goddess daughters of Nereus. They personified different aspects of the sea.
NERITES A young sea-god loved by either Aphrodite or the god Poseidon. He was transformed into a cockle-shell as the punishment for some offence.
NEREUS An ancient fish-tailed sea-god known as the Old Man of the Sea. He was the father of the fifty Nereides.
NESOI The Nesoi were goddesses of islands. Each island was said to have its own personification.
NESSUS (Nessos) A centaur ferryman who tried to rape the wife of Heracles, Deianeira, as he was carrying her across his river. Heracles heard her screams and shot him dead with poisoned arrows. The dying centaur tricked the girl into taking a sample of his poisoned blood to use as an aphrodisiac should her husband ever prove unfaithful.
NICAEA (Nikaia) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Sangarius and virgin follower of the goddess Artemis. When she shot dead the man who loved her, Eros was enraged and drove Dionysos to rob her of her virginity.

NIKE

NIKE The goddess of victory who sided with Zeus in the Titan-War and became his constant companion.
NILE (Neilos) The river of Egypt and its god.
NOMIA A Dryad nymph of the Nomia Mountains of Arcadia.
NOMUS (Nomos) The male personification of law. His wife was Eusebia, morality.
NONACRIS (Nonakris) A Naiad nymph of the town of Nonacris. She was the wife of the impious Arcadian king Lycaon.
NOSI (Nosoi) The spirits of pestilence and disease which were released from Pandora's jar.
NOTUS (Notos) The god of the South Wind.
NYMPHE The fifth of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the morning hour of bath.
NYMPHS (Nymphai) The beautiful female nature spirits. There were various types: Naiades (fresh-water nymphs), Oreads or Dryads (tree nymphs - pine and oak), Meliae (ash-tree nymphs), Oceanides (cloud nymphs bringers of rain from the river Oceanus), Haliae (sea-nymphs), and the Lampiades (underworld nymphs).
NYMPHS OF ARTEMIS The sixty youngest daughters of Oceanus, these Oceanides became the constant virgin companions of the goddess Artemis.
NYMPHS OF THEMIS Three nymph daughters of Zeus and Themis who were guardians of the artifacts of the gods . The hero Perseus received his winged sandals, death sword and helm of invisibility from them.
NYSIADES Nymphs of the mythical Mount Nysa. They were the nurses of the god Dionysus who became the first of his Bacchantes.
NYSUS (Nysos) The old Silen god of Mount Cithaeron (or Nysa). He was the mentor of Dionysus. When he refused to relinquish the mountain to the god upon his return from his travels, the god and his soldiers dressed up as women, snuck onto the mountain and captured him.
NYX The Protogenos (Primeval goddess) of night. She was the mother of Light and Day by the god Darkness. Alone she spawned a host of spirits.
OCEANIDES (Okeanides) The three thousand fresh-water nymph daughters of the earth-encirling river Oceanus. They were nymphs of standing water (Naiads), clouds (Nephelai), cool breezes (Aurai), meadows (Leimonides) and groves (Alseides). The eldest of them were lower ranked Titan goddesses. OCEANUS (Okeanos) The Titan god of the earth-encircling fresh-water river Oceanus. He remained neutral in the Titan war. He fostered the three daughters of Cronus after they were disgorged by their father.
OCYPETE (Okypete) One of the three Harpies.
OCYRHOE (1) (Okyrhoe) A Naiad nymph of the island of Samos who was pursued by the god Apollon. When she attempted to flee the island by ship he turned the vessel to stone and transformed the pilot into a porpoise.
OCYRHOE (2) (Okyrhoe) A Naiad nymph of the Phrygian river Sangarius.

OCEANUS

OCYRHOE (3) (Okyrhoe) An Oceanid nymph of Colchis loved by the sun-god Helius.
OCYRHOE (4) (Okyrhoe) A Teuthranian Naiad nymph loved by the god Hermes.
OCYRHOE (5) (Okyrhoe) A nymph daughter of the centaur Chiron who was transformed into a mare by the gods as punishment for misusing her prophetic gift.
OEDIPUS (Oidipous) The tragic Theban hero who destroyed the Sphinx.
OENOE (Oinoe) A nymph of the island of Sicinus loved by King Thoas.
OENONE (Oinone) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Cebren of Troy. She was the first wife of Prince Paris who refused to heal him when he later returned to her seeking a cure for his mortal arrow-wound. She refused, and when he died she hung herself in remorse.
OENUS (Oinos) The male personification of wine.
OEOLYCA (Oiolyka) A sea nymph daughter of the storm giant Briareus. Some say the girdle of the Amazon Hippolyte first belonged to her.
OIZYS The female personification of pain.
OLETHRUS (Olethros) The personification of doom and destruction.
OLYMPUS (1) (Olympos) A Cretan god or giant. He was a mentor of Zeus, who later turned on the god by insiting the Gigantes against him.
OLYMPUS (2) (Olympos) The god of the Phrygian mount Olympus.
OMODAMON The Daemon 'Crudebake' who plagued the craftsman potter.
ONEIROI The dreams spirits. They issued forth at night in their thousands from the underworld like bats from a cave.
OPHIES PTERETOI A race of feathery-winged serpents which guarded the myrrh fields of Arabia.
OPHION A King of the Titanes. Cronus wrestled him for the throne of heaven and cast him defeated into the river Ocean.
OPHIOTAURUS (Ophiotauros) A black-skinned monster with the foreparts of a bull and the rearparts of a serpent. It was slain by the Sea-Titan Aegaeon during the Titan-War.
OPORA The goddess or female personification of the ripe fruit of late summer.

OREAD-MAENAD

OREADS (Oreiades) Hamadryad nymphs of the mountains. At their birth a pine tree sprung up on the peaks.
ORION A handsome earth-born giant who could walk on water. A great huntsman he was a close companion of Artemis and Leto. However, when he threatened to slay all the earth's beasts, Gaea despatched a scorpion to destroy him.
ORITHYIA (1) (Oreithyia) The nymph wife of the North Wind Boreas. She was abducted by the god from her home in Athens.
ORITHYIA (2) (Oreithyia) A nymph of Mount Lebanon in Phoenicia. She was the mother of the accursed girl Smyrna.
ORIUS (1) (Oreios) A man-eating, half-bear Thracian giant. He and his twin brother were transformed into birds by Hermes as punishment for their cruel barbarity.
ORIUS (2) (Oreios) The mountain god of Mount Othrys in Malis.
ORNEA The Naiad nymph of the Argive town of Orneae.
ORNITHES AREIOS A flock of arrow-shooting birds sacred to the god Ares which guarded his shrine amongst the Amazones.
ORPHNE An underworld Nymphe. She was the wife of the river-god Acheron.
ORSEIS The nymph wife of Hellen, the ancestral King of all the Hellenes (Greeks).
ORTHANNES A phallic god of garden fertility.
ORTHOSIA One of the Horae and the goddess of agricultural prosperity.
ORTYGIA The nymph of the sacred Ortygian grove in Lycia. She was a nurse of the god Apollo.
OSSA The female personification of rumour.
OTHREIS An Oread nymph of Mt Othrys in Malia. She was loved by two gods, Zeus and Apollo.

ORTHRUS

ORTHRUS (Orthros) The two-headed guard dog of the giant Geryon. It was slain by Heracles.
OTUS (Otos) A gigantic son of Poseidon. He and his brother Ephialtes tried to storm heaven by piling mountains one upon the other. They were slain by Apollon and Artemis.
OUPIS A Hyperborean nymph in the retinue of the goddess Artemis.
OURANIA The Muse of astronomy.
OURANUS (Ouranos) The Protogenos (primeval god) of the dome of the sky. He was the first king of the cosmos who was castrated and deposed by his son Cronus.
OUREA The mountain gods. Each mountain had its own god.
OXYLUS (Oxylus) A rustic mountain god of thick forest. He was the father of the Hamadryad Nymphs.
PAEON (Paion) The physician of the gods. PAIDIA The goddess of play and amusement. She was one of the attendants of Aphrodite.
PALAEMON (Palaimon) A young dolphin-riding sea-god who came to the aid of sailors in dsitress. He was a son of the princess Ino who was transformed into a godling when his mother leapt with him into the sea.
PALICI (Palikoi) The gods of two Sicilian geysers. They were also protectors of runaway slaves and defenders of the sacred oaths sworn on their waters.
PALIOXIS The male personification of backrush, one the spirits of the battlefield.
PALLAS (1) TheTitan-god of warcraft. He was the father of Victory, Force, Power and Rivalry.
PALLAS (2) A goatish Giant slain by Athena who flayed his skin for a shield.
PALLAS (3) A Nymph companion of the goddess Athena. She was accidentally killed during their war-games, and in her memory the goddess crafted the Palladium.

PAN

PAN The Arcadian god of shepherds and goatherds. He had the legs, horns and tail of a goat.
PANACEA (Panakeia) The goddess of cures. She was a daughter of the medicine-god Asclepius.
PANDAISIA The goddess of banquets. She was one of the attendants of Aphrodite.
PANDIA (Pandeia) A goddess daughter of Zeus and Selene.
PANDORA The very first woman created by the gods. She opened the lid of a magic jar releasing the evils which plague mankind.
PANES Rustic daemones with the legs and horns of a goat. They were similar to the god Pan, but with more goatish faces.
PANNYCHIS (Pannykhis) The goddess of night-time parties and festivities. She was one of the attendants of Aphrodite.
PANOPIA (Panopeia) The Nereid goddess of panorama, the sighting of land and uncoming storms.
PAREGOROS The personification of soothing words. She was an attendant of Aphrodite.
PAREIA A nymph of the island of Paros loved by King Minos of Crete.
PARTHENOS A virgin goddess. She was a Naxian princess who leapt into the sea to escape the wrath of her stepfather Staphylos. Her real father Apollo then rescued her and transformed her into a goddess.
PASIPHAE A goddess-witch of the island of Crete, the wife of King Minos. She was filled with an unnatural desire for the Cretan Bull and after mating it conceived the bull-headed Minotaur.
PASITHEA One of the goddess Charites. She was married to Hypnus the god of sleep.
PASSALUS (Passalos) One of the monkey-like Cercopes.
PEGAEAE (Pegaiai) Naiad-nymphs of springs.
PEGASIS A Trojan Naiad nymph.

PEGASUS

PEGASUS (Pegasos) A winged horse which sprung from the neck of Medusa after her decapitation. He was tamed by the hero Bellerophon who rode him into battle against the Amazons and the monster Chimera.
PEIRENE The weeping Naiad nymph of the fountain of the town of Corinth. She was loved by Poseidon.
PEITHO The Oceanid goddess of persuasion and seductive words. She was the nurse and close companionof the goddess Aphrodite.
PELIONIDES The nymphs of Mt Pelion, daughters of the centaur Chiron. They nursed the tribe of Centaurs spawned by the cloud nymph Nephele.
PEMPHREDO One of old hag Graeae.
PENELOPE (Penelopeia) An Arcadian Oread nymph. She was the mother of the god Pan by Hermes.
PENEUS (Peneios) A river of Thessaly and its god.
PENIA The female personification of poverty. She seduced the daemon Porus during the birthday celebrations of the goddess Aphrodite.
PENTHUS (Penthos) The male personification of grief and lamentation.
PERIBOEA (1) (Periboia) The Oceanid nymph wife of the Titan Lelantus.
PERIBOEA (2) (Periboia) The Naiad nymph wife of the Spartan Prince Icarius.
PERSEIS An Oceanid nymph loved by the god Helius. She was the mother of the witches Circe, Pasiphae and Aeetes.

PERSEPHONE

PERSEPHONE The Queen of the underworld. She was a spring-time goddess, the only daughter of Demeter, who was abducted to the underworld by Hades. Her mother brought famineto the world until Zeus agreed to let her return for part of the year.
PERSES The Titan god of destruction and laying waste.
PERSEUS A great Argive hero who slew the Gorgon Medusa and rescued princess Andromeda from a sea monster.
PEUCE (Peuke) The Naiad nymph of an isle of the river Ister (the Danube).
PHAEA (Phaia) A wild sow which ravaged the town of Crommyon. It was slain by the hero Theseus.
PHAENON (Phainos) The god of the star Jupiter or Saturn. He was a beautiful boy once crafted by the Titan Prometheus. Zeus fell in love with him and made him a shining star-god.
PHAEO (Phaio) One of the starry Hyades.
PHAESYLE (Phaisyie) One of the starry Hyades.
PHAETHON (1) A son of the sun-god Helius who attempted to drive his father's chariot. He lost control and after scorching the earth was struck down by the bolta of Zeus.
PHAETHON (2) The handsome young god of the star Jupiter. He was seized by Aphrodite who appointed him the guardian-daemon of her temple.
PHAETHUSA (Paethousa) A nymph daughter of the sun-god Helios, and the shepherdess of his flocks on the island of Thrinacie.
PHALES The god of the phallus paraded in the Dionysian fertility procession. He was also a god of adultery and pedastery.
PHANES The golden-winged god of creation who hatched from the universal egg at the beginning of time.
PHARMACEA (Pharmakeia) The Naiad nymph of a poisonous spring near the town of Athens.
PHASIS A river of Colchis and its god.
PHAUNUS (Phaunos) A god of the forests, and an attendant of Dionysus. He was the same as the Italian Faunus.
PHEME The female personification of rumour.
PHERES LAMIOI Daemon guardians and companions of the infant god Dionysus. They were transformed into bull-horned satyrs-like beasts by Hera.
PHERESPONDOS One of the three Satyr messengers of the god Dionysus.
PHERUSA (Pherousa) The goddess of plenty and abundance. She was one of the Horae (Seasons).
PHIALE One of the attendant nymphs of the goddess Artemis.
PHIGALIA A Dryad nymph of the Arcadian town Phigalia.
PHILODICE (Philodike) A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Inachus, the wife of a Messenian king.
PHILOPHROSYNE The goddess of friendliness and welcome. She was one of the Charis daughters of Hephaestus.
PHILOTES The female personification of affection, friendship and perhaps also sex.
PHILYRA (Philyre) An Oceanid nymph loved by the Titan Cronus. When Rhea discovered their rendeavous he transformed himself into a stallion. From their union the centaur Chiron was born. Philyra was later transformed into a linden tree.

PHORCYS

PHOBUS (Phobos) The daemon personification of fear. He was a son and battlefield companion of the god Ares.
PHOEBE (1) (Phoibe) The Titan goddess of bright intellect and the oracle at Delphi. She gifted the shrine to her grandson Apollon on his birthday.
PHOEBE (2) One of the two Leucippides, Messenian princesses who became the goddess wives of the Dioscuri.
PHOEBE (3) (Phoibe) A Hamadryad nymph loved by King Danaus of Libya.
PHOENIX (Phoinix) A fabulous Arabian or Indian bird whose egg was hatched in flames.
PHOETIUS (Phoitos) A Gigante vanquished by the goddess Hera in the giant war.
PHOLUS (Pholos) An Arcadian centaur who once entertained Heracles in his cave with wine. When the other centaurs attacked Heracles drove them off with his poison arrows, but Pholus accidentally dropped one on his foot and died.
PHONOI The personificatied daemones of murder.
PHORCYS (Phorkys) An ancient crab-like Sea-God. He was the father and grandfather of most of the monsters of myth.
PHTHONUS (Phthonos) The personification of jealousy and envy.
PHUSIS The Protogenos (primeval goddess) of nature.
PHYLONOE A Spartan maiden made immortal by the goddess Artemis.
PISTIS The female personification of trust, honesty and good faith.
PITANE A Naiad nymph daughter of the Spartan river Eurotas. She was loved by Poseidon.
PITYS A Dryad nymph who fled the embraces of Pan and was transformed into a fir tree.
PLATAEA (Plataia) The Naiad nymph of the Boeotian town of Plataea loved by Zeus. The god pretended to be taking her for his bride when Hera abandoned their marriage.
PLEIADES Seven star nymph daughters of the Titan Atlas who were loved by the gods. They were transferred to heavens after the lusty giant Orion chased them for seven years.
PLEIONE The Oceanid nymph wife of the Titan Atlas. She and her daughter Pleiades were pursued by the lusty giant Orion for seven years before the gods placed them amongst the stars.
PLEISTUS (Pleistos) A river of Phocis and its god.
PLUTO (Plouto) The nymph mother of the impious Lydian King Tantalos by Zeus.
PLUTUS (Ploutos) The god of agricultural wealth. He was blinded by Zeus so that he would distribute wealth indiscriminately and not favour the good.
POENA (1) (Poine)The female personification of retaliation.
POENA (2) (Poine) A monstrous child-devouring she-dragon which was summoned forth from the underworld by Apollo to punish the Argives for the death of his infant son Linos.
POLEMUS (Polemos) The personification of war.

POLYPHEMUS

POLYBOEA (Polyboia) A Spartan maiden who became an immortal attendant of the goddess Artemis.
POLYBOTES A Gigante crushed beneath the island of Nisyrus by the god Poseidon in the giant war.
POLYMNIA (Polyhymnia) The Muse of hymns.
POLYPHE The Oceanid nymph mother of the goddess Athena Hippia by Poseidon.
POLYPHEMUS (Polyphemos) A man-eating Cyclops who was blinded by the hero Odysseus.
POLYXO An Egyptian naiad.
POMPE The female personification of religious processions.
PONTUS (Pontos) The Protogenos (primeval god) of the sea.
PONUS (Ponos) The personification of hard labour.
PORPHYRION A king of the giants who was slain by Zeus and Heracles in the giant war when he attempted to rape Hera.
PORUS (Poros) The male personification of expediency. He was seduced by Penia (Poverty) at the birthday celebrations of Aphrodite.

POSEIDON

POSEIDON The King of the Sea, and the god of horses, rivers and earthquakes. He was one of the great Olympian gods who received the sea when the cosmos was divided amongst the three sons of Cronus, following the overthrow of the Titans.
POTAMEIDES Naiad-nymphs of rivers.
POTAMOI The River god sons of Oceanus. Each river had its own god. They were manlike from the chest upwards, but below were bodied with the serpentine tail of a fish.
POTHUS (Pothos) The god of sexual longing. He was one of the winged Erotes (love gods).
PRAXIDICAE (Praxidikai) The goddess exacters of justice.
PRAXIDICE (Praxidike) The goddess exacter of justice.
PRAXITHEA The Naiad nymph wife of King Erechtheus of Athens.
PRIAPUS (Priapos) The rustic god of garden fertility. He was an ugly little satyr with enormous genitals.
PROIOXIS The battlefield personification of onrush.

PROMETHEUS

PROMETHEUS The Titan god of forethought and the creator of mankind. He cheated the gods on several occasions on behalf of man, including the theft of fire. As punishment Zeus chained him to the Caucasus mountains and sent an eagle to prey on his ever-regenerating liver. He was later freed by Heracles.
PRONOEA (Pronoia) The Oceanid goddess nymph of foresight. She was the wife of the Titan Prometheus.
PRONOMUS (Pronomos) One of the three Satyr messengers of the god Dionysus.
PROPHASIS The female personification of excuses.
PROSYMNA A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asterion. She and her sisters Euboea and Acraea were nurses of the goddess Hera.
PROTEUS An old sea god, the herdsman of the seals of Poseidon. He was once captured by the hero Menelaus despite his shapeshifting.
PROTOGENOI The first born, primeval gods who made up the very fabric of the universe - Chronus (Time), Chaos (Air), Gaea (Earth), Tartarus (Hell Pit), Uranus (Sky), Pontus (Sea), Nyx (Night), Erebus (Darkness), Hemera (Day), and Aether (Light). They each consisted of their own element, though a few were known to assume an anthropomorphic manifestation.
PSALACANTHA (Psalakantha) An Icarian Nymphe who fell in love with the god Dionysus. When she attempted to drive away his love Ariadne, he transformed her into a plany-plant.
PSAMATHE The Nereid goddess of sand. She was seduced by King Aeacus of Aegina.
PSECAS (Psekas) One of the attendant nymphs of the goddess Artemis.
PSEUDOLOGOI The personifications of lies.

PSYCHE

PSYCHE (Psykhe) The goddess of the soul, wife of the love-god Eros. She was originally a mortal princess who rivalled Aphrodite in beauty. When Eros fell in love with her, the goddess put her through many trials before she was accepted into the Olympian fold.
PTELEA The Hamadryad nymph of the elm tree.
PTOCHEIA (Ptokheia) The female personification of beggary.
PYGMIES (Pygmaioi) A tribe of two-foot tall men of India and sub-Saharan Africa who warred with winter-migrating cranes.
PYRIPHLEGETHON The underworld river of fire and its god.
PYRRHICHUS (Pyrrhikhos) The Curete god of the pyrrhichus dance.
PYROEIS The star god of the planet Mars.
PYTHON A gigantic serpent born of the sludge of the earth, which was appointed by Themis or Gaea to guard the Delphic Oracle. The god Apollo slew the beast with his arrows when he seized the shrine.
RHADAMANTHYS One of the three judges of the dead in the underworld and the Lord of the Islands of the Blessed.

RHEA

RHEA (Rheia) The Titan goddess of female fertility and mountain wilderness. Her husband Cronus swallowed each of her children as soon as they were born, but she managed to hide the youngest, Zeus, in a cave on the island Crete.
RHANIS One of the attendant nymphs of the goddes Artemis.
RHENE A nymph of the island of Samothrace loved by the god Hermes.
RHETIA The nymph mother of the Samothracian Corybantes by Apollo.
RHODE The sea nymph goddess of the island of Rhodes, and the wife of the sun-god Helius.
RHODOPE A Naiad nymph daughter of the Thracian river-god Strymon. When she and her husband Haemus impersonated Zeus and Hera, the angry gods transformed them into mountains.
SABACTES (Sabaktes) The Daemon 'Crash' who plagued the craftsman potter.
SAGARITIS A Hamadryas nymph loved by Attis, the young consort of Cybele. She was destroyed by the goddess when she learned of their affair.
SALAMIS A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asopus who was abducted to the island of the same name by the god Poseidon.
SALMACIS (Salmakis) The Naiad nymph of a spring near the town of Halicarnassus who fell in love with the boy Hermaphroditus. Following a misinterpreted prayer to the gods, their two bodies were merged into one.

SATYR

SAMIA A Naiad nymph of the island of Samos, and the wife its first king Ancaeus.
SANGARIUS (Saggarios) A river of Phrygia and its god.
SATYR OF ARGOS (Satyros Argios) A Satyr who attempted to rape the maiden Amymone but was caught in the act and chased away by the god Poseidon.
SATYRS (Satyroi) Mountain spirits of wilderness fertility. They appeared as animalistic men with the ears and tail of an ass, and erect phaluses.
SCAMANDER (Skamandros) A river of Troy and its god. When he attempted to drown the hero Achilles in the Trojan War, Hephaestus scorched his streams with fire.
SCIAPODS (Skiapodes) A tribe of African men. Each had a gigantic foot which they raised above their head to shade themselves from the burning Saharan sun.
SCIRON (Skiron) The god of the North-West Wind.
SCORPIOS (Skorpios) A giant scorpion which Gaea sent up from the earth to slay the giant hunter Orion, when he threatened to slay all the beasts of the earth.

SCYLLA

SCYLLA (Skylla) A monstrous sea-goddess whose body was ringed by carnivorous heads. She dwelt in a cliffside cave opposite the whirlpool daemon Charybdis.
SCYRTUS (Skyrtos) A satyr attendant of the god Dionysos, who supported the god in his drunken stupors.
SELENE The goddess of the moon who rode through the sky at night in a chariot drawn by winged horses, or seated side-saddle on an ass. She fell in love with the young shepherd Endymion who was granted mmortality in a state of eternal sleep.
SEMELE The mother of the god Dionysus who was consumed by the lightnings of Zeus. Her son later fetched her up from the underworld and introduced her to Olympus as the goddess Thyone.
SILENI (Seilenoi) Elderly drunken Satyrs in the train of Dionysos.
SILENOS (Seilenos) The god of drunkenness, he was the mentor and companion of the god Dionysus.
SIMOEIS A river of Troy and its god.
SINOE An Arcadian nymph who nursed the god Pan.
SINOPE A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asopus who was abducted tot he town of Sinope on the Black Sea by Apollo. She made him swear to respect her virginity.
SIRENS (Seirenes) Three sea-daemones with the heads of women and the bodies of bird. They dwelt on the island of Anthemoessa and lured sailers to their death with their irresistable song. The only man to hear their song and live was Odysseus who had himself bound to the ship's mast, in frustration the Sirens leapt into the sea and drowned.

SIRENS

SIRIUS (Sirios) The god of the Dog Star, who scorched the earth with the heat of mid-summer.
SITHNIDES The Naiad nymphs of the certain springs near Megara.
SMARAGOS The Daemon 'Smash' who plagued the craftsman potter.
SOCUS (Sokos) A rustic god of the island of Euboea.
SOPHROSYNE The female personification of moderation and discretion.
SOSE A prophetic Oreiad nymph loved by the god Hermes.
SOSIPOLIS A starry child-god, worshipped in Elis.
SOTER The male personification of safety and delivery from harm.
SOTERIA The goddess personification of safety, recovery and salvation.
SPARTA (Sparte) The Naiad nymph wife of Lacedaemon, the first King of Sparta.
SPARTI (Spartoi) A race of earth-born warriors, which sprang fully grown with armour and weapons from the sown teeth of the Dragon of Ares.
SPERCHEIDES (Sperkheides) The Naiad nymph daughters of the river Spercheus.
SPERCHEUS (Sperkheios) A river of Malis and its god.
SPHINX A monster with the head of a woman, the body of a lioness and the wings of an eagle. She killed herself after Oedipus guessed the answer her riddle.

SPHINX

SPHRAGITIDES The Oread nymphs of a rustic oracle on Mt Cithaeron.
SPONDE The seventh of the twelve Horai (Hours), she was the goddess of the hour of libations poured (after lunch).
STEROPE One of the starry Pleiad nymphs. She was loved by the god Ares.
STEROPES One of the three ancient, metal-working Cyclops.
STHENO One of the two immortal Gorgons.
STILBE A Naiad nymph daughter of the Thessalian river Peneius loved by the god Apollo.
STILBON The god of the star Mercury.
STROPHIA The Naiad nymph of a spring on Mount Cithaeron.
STRYMO A Naiad nymph daughter of the Trojan river Scamander.
STRYMON A river of Thrace and its god.
STYMPHALIAN BIRDS A breed of man-eating birds which haunted Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia. One of Heracles labours was to drive them from the lake.
STYX The goddess of the underworld river Styx, eldest of the Oceanides. She brought her children to side with Zeus in the Titan-War, and as reward he made her waters the inviolate oath of the gods.
SUNTRIBUS (Suntribos) The Daemon 'Shatter' who plagued the craftsman potter.
SYBARIS A monstrous Lamia or Dracaena who preyed upon the men of Phocis.
SYCE (Syke) The Hamadryad nymph of the fig tree.
SYCEUS (Sykeus) A Giant or Titan pursued by Zeus in the war against the gods. His mother Gaia hid him beneath the earth as the seed of the first fig-tree.
SYLLIS A nymph of Sicyon loved by the god Apollo.
SYMAETHIS (Symaithis) A Sicilian river-nymph loved by the god Pan.
SYMAETHUS (Symaithos) A Sicilian river and its god.
SYRINX A Naiad nymph chased by the god Pan. She fled his embrace and was transformed by her sisters into river reeds. The god crafted his famous pan-pipes from her plant.
TALOS A bronze giant which guarded the island of Crete, pelting passing ships with stones. He was slain by the Argonauts and the magic of the witch Medea. TANAGRA A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asopus. The gods Ares and Hermes competed a boxing match to win her love.
TARAXIPPOI Horse frightening ghosts or spirits which haunted the race courses of Olympia, Nemea and the Isthmos.
TARTARUS (Tartaros) The Protogenos (primeval god) of the storm-wracked pit of Tartarus, which lay beneath the flat earth. His realm was the prison of the Titan gods. Tartarus fathered the monstrous storm-daemon Typhoeus.
TAYGETE The starry Pleiad nymph of Mount Taygetus who was loved by Zeus. She was the ancestress of the kings of Sparta.
TELCHINES (Telkhines) Evil magic-working daemons of the island of Rhodes. They were foster parents of the sea-god Poseidon, which were later destroyed by Zeus for their use of destructive magics.

TALOS

TELEDICE (Teledike) The Nymph wife of the first human king Phoroneus.
TELESPHORUS (Telesphoros) The god of convalescence. He was the son of the medicine-god Asclepius.
TELETE The female personification of the Dionysian mystery rites, and initiation into the orgiastic cult.
TELPHUSA (Telphousa) The Naiad nymph of the Boeotian spring Telphusia. Apollo buried her waters beneath rocks when she tried to deceive him.
TELPHUSIA (Telphousia) A Boeotian Erinys. She was the mother of the Theban dragon by Ares.
TEREINE A Thracian Naiad nymph loved by the god Ares.
TERPSICHORE (Terpsikhore) The Muse of choral dance and song.
TETHYS The Titan goddess of the subterranean sources of fresh-water and the nursing of the young. She was the wife of the Titan Oceanus and bore him three-thousand fresh-water Nymphs and innnumerable Rivers.
TEUMESSIAN FOX (Alopex Teumessios) A gigantic fox which ravaged the countryside of Thebes and was destined to remain uncatcheable. The hero Cephalus set the hunting dog Laelaps on its spoor, a beast destined to always catch its mark. Zeus perplexed by the contradicting fates turned the pair to stone.
THALASSA The Protogenos (primeval goddess) of the sea.
THALIA (1) (Thaleia) A Sicilian nymph who was impregnated by the god Zeus. Fearing the wrath of Hera she prayed to the god to be swallowed up by the earth. Her sons, the Palici gods, were born as geysers erupting from the ground.

TETHYS

THALIA (2) The goddess of festive good-cheer. She was one of the three Charites.
THALIA (3) (Thaleia) The Muse of comedy.
THALLO The spring-time goddess Hora of green shoots.
THANATUS (Thanatos) The personification of (non-violent) death.
THAUMAS The god of the wonders of the sea. He was the father of Iris (the Rainbow) and whirlwind Harpies.
THEA (Theia) The Titan goddess of sight and clear blue skies. She was the mother of the Sun, Moon and Dawn.
THEAI The ancient greek word for goddesses.
THEBE A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asopus abducted to the town of Thebes by Zeus..
THEISOA One of the Arcadian nymph nurses of the god Zeus.
THELPUSA (Thelpousa) A Naiad nymph daughter of the Arcadian river Ladon.
THEMIS (1) The Titan goddess of divine law, natural order and the oracles of the earth. She was the mother of the goddess Fates and Seasons by Zeus.
THEMIS (2) A Naiad nymph daughter of the Arcadian river Ladon loved by the god Hermes.
THEOI The ancient greek word for "gods".
THEOI GEORGICI (Theoi Georgikoi) The gods of agriculture and farming. Most of these were attendants of Demeter, the Queen of the fertile earth.
THEOI CHTHONIAN (Theoi Khthonioi) The gods of the underworld. They belonged to the court of King Haides.
THEOI HALIAN (Theoi Halioi) The gods of the sea. They were ruled by the Sea-King Poseidon.
THEOI NOMIAN (Theoi Nomioi) The gods of the countryside - pastureland and the wilds. Most of these fell within the domains of Dionysos Lord of wild vegetation, Artemis Queen of beasts, and Hermes god of the herds.
THEOI OLYMPIAN (Theoi Olympioi) The twelve great Olympian Gods (and their offspring) who presided over the various facets of Greek civilisation, society and culture.
THEOI URANIAN (Theoi Ouranioi) The gods of the sky. They were in the service of Zeus and Hera, King and Queen of the heavens.
THEOI TITANES The first generation of gods. They were largely superseded by the younger Olympians. The Titanes were primarily associated with time and prophecy.
THERES The ancient greek word for "monsters" and "beasts".
THERES, ETHIOPIAN (Theres Aithiopikoi) Many fabulous beasts were believed to inhabit the distant land of Ethiopia (Sub-Saharan Africa), including Dragons, Pegasi and Sphinxes, to the Catoblepas, Yale, Leucrocota, and Amphisbaena.
THERES, INDIAN (Theres Indikoi) Many fabulous beasts were thought to inhabit the distant land of India.
THERO The nymph nurse of the god Ares.
THESEUS The great Athenian hero who slew the Minotaur of Crete.
THESIS The Protogenos (primeval goddess) of creation and genesis.
THESPIA A Naiad nymph daughter of the river Asopus. She was carried off to Boeotia by the god Apollo.

THETIS

THETIS The leader of the fifty Nereid goddesses of the sea. She was wrestled by the hero Peleus and held her firm despite her shape-shifting until she agreed to become his wife. Their son was the hero Achilles.
THISBE The eponymous nymph of the Boeotian town of Thebes.
THOON A Gigante clubbed to death by the Moerae (Fates) with clubs of bronze in the war of the giants.
THOOSA A sea nymph loved by the god Poseidon. She was the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus.
THRACE (Thrake) A goddess-witch of Thrace. She had sons by Cronus, Zeus and the giant Briareus.
THRASSA A Thracian nymph daughter of the god Ares.
THRASUS (Thrasos) The spirit of overly bold or rash action and insolence.
THRIAE (Thriai) Prophetic nymphs of Mount Parnassus. They presided over the rustic art of divination by pebbles, and were goddesses of all birds of omen. These virgin nymphs may have had the bodies of bees.
THRONIA A Thracian Naiad nymph loved by the god Poseidon.
THYIA A Naiad nymph of Mount Parnassus loved by the god Apollo. She was the first to celebrate the orgies of Dionysus at Delphi.
THYMBRIS A prophetic Arcadian nymph. She was the mother of the mantic Pan by Zeus.
THYONE The mother of the god Dionysus who was destroyed by the lighnings of Zeus. Her son Dionysus later fetched her up from Hades to join the company of the gods on Olympus.
THYSA The goddess nymph of the frenzied state achieved by celebrants of the Dionysian orgy. She was a daughter of the god.
TIASA The Naiad nymph of a Spartan stream.
TISIPHONE One of the three Erinyes, goddesses of vengeance.
TITANIDES The female Titans. The eldest of these were the daughters of Uranus named Rhea, Themis, Thea, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Phoebe and Dione. They remained neutral in the Titan-War and retained their role of minor earth-goddesses into the reign of Zeus. Many of the daughters of the Titans were also called Titanides, such as Dione, Leto, Eos, Selene, and Hecate.
TITANS (Titanes) The six sons of Uranus (Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Iapetus, Hyperion and Cronus) who overthrew their father Uranus. They were in turn overthrown by Zeus at the end of a ten year war and cast into Tartarus (except for Oceanus who remained neutral in the conflict). It appears that they were later released by Zeus and settled in Elysium. Some of their sons and grandsons were also called Titans.
TITHONUS (Tithonos) A handsome shepherd boy carried away by the dawn-goddess Eos as her consort. She obtained the gift of immortality for him but forget to ask for eternal youth. In time he shrivelled with age and the goddess transformed him into a cicada.
TITHOREA The eponymous Dryad nymph of the Phocian town of Tithorea.
TITYRI (Tityroi) A tribe of flute-playing rustic daemones, related to the Satyrs. They were companions of the god Dionysus.
TITYUS (Tityos) A giant who attempted to rape the goddess Leto. He was slain by Apollon and sentenced to eternal torture in Hades.
TRACHIUS (Trakhios) One of the one-eyed, metal-working giants known as Cyclopes.
TRIPTOLEMUS (Triptolemos) The agricultural-god of the sowing and threshing of grain. He was a hero of the goddess Demeter who gave him a golden winged chariot drawn by dragons to spread knowldedge of agriculture throughout the world.
TRITEIA The war-like sea nymph of the Achaian town of Triteia. She was the consort of the god Ares.

TRITON

TRITON The sea-god herald of the god Poseidon who calmed the seas with a blow of his conch shell. He was a merman with one or two fish-tails in place of legs.
TRITONIDES Sea nymphs, daughters of the Tritons.
TRITONIS The goddess of Lake Tritonis in Libya. She was the mother by a sea-god of the Libyan goddess Athena.
TRITONS (Tritones) The fish-tailed daemones of the sea. They were named after the like-formed god Triton. Some of the Tritones were monstrous in appearance.
TRITOPATORES The "three fathers", ancient wind-gods of the generation of life.
TROCHILUS (Trokhilos) The demi-god of the mill will, used for grinding grain into flour. He was one of the Eleusinian attendants of the goddess Demeter.
TROGLODYTES A tribe of underground-dwelling men.
TROPHONIUS (Trophonios) A man swallowed up by the earth and transformed into an oracular Daemon.
TYCHE (Tykhe) The goddess of the good fortune and luck.
TYCHON (Tykhon) A phallic fertility daemon.

TYPHON

TYPHON (Typhoeus) A monstrous storm-daemon with a hundred beastly heads, serpent legs and giant wings. He attempted to dethrone Zeus, and wrestled the god of his lightning bolts, tore out his sinews and locked him in a cave. The god was restored by his sons, and struck Typhone with his thunderbolts, imprisoning him in Tartarus or beneath the volcano Etna.
UPIS (Oupis) A Hyperborean nymph in the retinue of the goddes Artemis.
URANIA (Ourania) The Muse of astronomy.
URANUS (Ouranos) The Protogenos (primeval god) of the sky - a solid bronze dome which enclosed the flat earth. Uranus was the first ruler of the universe who was castrated and deposed by his son the Titan Cronus.
XANTHUS (Xanthos) One of two immortal horses owned first by the hero Peleus and then by his son Achilles.
ZAGREUS (Zagreos) The first-born son of Zeus who the god seated on the throne of heaven armed with thunderbolts when he was but a babe. The Titan gods stole into Olympus, distracted the child, and dismembered him with their bloody knives. Athena recovered his heart, and the god was reborn through Semele as Dionysus.

ZEUS

ZELUS (Zelos) The personification of rivalry. He and his three siblings were daemon attendants of the god Zeus.
ZEPHYRUS (Zephyros) The god of the gentle West-Wind and the season of spring.
ZEUS The King of the Gods, greatest of the twelve Olympians. He was the god of the heavens, weather, fate, and kings. His weapon was the fiery thunderbolt.
ZEUXIPPE An Athenian Naiad nymph, she was the mother of the Argonaut Butes.


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