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| Aurora | the personification of the dawn; most famous lover was Tithonus, for whom she gained immortality from Zeus but forgot to ask for eternal youth |
| Cupid | god of desire, affection and erotic love; son of Venus |
| Dryads | a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. |
| Faunus | the horned god of the forest, plains and fields; came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan |
| Hecate | considered to be the goddess of magic and witchcraft; honoured in the households as a protective goddess who brought prosperity. |
| Iris | goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods; handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera |
| Janus | god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time |
| Lares | originally gods of the cultivated fields, worshipped by each household at the crossroads where its allotment joined those of others. |
| Leda | queen of Sparta, the wife of King Tyndareus; famously seduced by Zeus when he took the form of a swan |
| Muses | nine deities that gave artists, philosophers and individuals the necessary inspiration for creation |
| Naiads | a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. |
| Nymph | any of a large class of inferior female divinities; associated with fertile, growing things, such as trees, or with water |
| Oreads | the patrons of travelers, who they helped through dangerous mountain passes and hills; had gift of prophecy and divination |
| Penates | among the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals |
| Quirinus | major Roman deity ranking close to Jupiter and Mars; the flamines of these gods constituted the three major priests at Rome. |
| Saturnus | character in myth as a god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation |
| Actaeon | son of Aristaeus, a herdsman; somehow caused the wrath of goddess Artemis, eventually leading to his death |
| Adonis | mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite; conceived after Aphrodite cursed his mother Myrrha to lust after her own father |
| Arachne | a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest |
| Baucis | married to Philemon and they were the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Jupiter and Mercury |
| Daphne | a dryad in Greek mythology, daughter of the river god Peneus |
| Deucalion | son of Prometheus; closely connected with the flood myth in Greek mythology. |
| Echo | an Oread-nymph of Mount Cithaeron in Boeotia; was cursed by Hera |
| Europa | her beauty inspired the love of Zeus, who approached her in the form of a white bull and carried her away from Phoenicia to Crete |
| Hyacinth | a very beautiful Spartan prince and lover of the god Apollo; A temenos or sanctuary grew up around what was alleged to be his burial mound, |
| Maenads | female follower of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus |
| Midas | popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold |
| Narcissus | a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. |
| Niobe | foolishly boasted that she was more fortunate than Leto, the mother of Artemis and Apollo because she had more children than Leto |
| Orpheus | most famous for his virtuoso ability in playing the lyre or kithara |
| Phaethon | a youthful son of Helius who begged his father let him drive the chariot of the sun |
| Philemon | husband of Baucis; they were an old couple that appeared in a myth that is lesser known among those of Greek and Roman mythology |
| Pyramus | hero of a Babylonian love story, in which he and Thisbe were able to communicate only through a crack in the wall |
| Pyrrha | She was the wife and cousin of Deucalion. They were the sole survivors of the flood sent by Zeus |
| Thisbe | lived in Babylon, and was the lover of Pyramus, both living in connected houses, but being forbidden to marry by their parents |
