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| Aurora | Goddess of the dawn, brings light of day in her chariot |
| Cupid | god of desire, affection, and erotic love; married to Psyche |
| Dryads | a nympth or tree spirit who lives in trees and takes the from of a beautiful young woman |
| Faunus | horned god of the forest, plains, and fields; he made cattle fertile |
| Hecate | goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts, and necromancy |
| Iris | goddess of the rainbow and messanger of the Olympian gods |
| Janus | god of beginnings and transitions, also of gates, doors, endings, and time |
| Lares | originally gods of the cultivated fields; worshipped at the crossroads |
| Leda | princess in Greek mythology; daughter of Thestius and wife of King Tyndareus |
| Muses | deities that gave artists, philosophers and individuals the necessary inspiration for creation |
| Naiads | the nymphs of rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs |
| Nymph | a young female deity typically identified with natural features |
| Oreads | the patrons of travelers, who they helped through dangerous mountain passes and hills |
| Penates | household gods of the Romans and other Latin peoples |
| Quirinus | an early god of the Roman state; name derived from the Sabine word quiris "spear" |
| Saturnus | god of agriculture, liberation, and time |
| Actaeon | a hunter who seen Diana bathing, was changed by her into a stag and was torn to pieces by his own hounds |
| Adonis | she was transformed into a myrrh tree |
| Arachne | was a weaver who challenged Athena and was consequently transformed into a spider |
| Baucis | with her husband Philemon, offered hospitality to the disguised Zeus and Hermes; upon death was turned into a tree with her husband |
| Daphne | in love with apollo , daughter of peneus; was turned into a laural tree when touched by Apollo |
| Deucalion | the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus |
| Echo | a mountain nymph who annoyed Hera, queen of the gods, by talking to her constantly |
| Europa | Cretan moon goddess originally virgin phoenician princess; abducted by Zeus; Europe is named after her |
| Hyacinth | was a very beautiful Spartan prince and lover of the god Apollo; turned into a flower by Apollo |
| Maenads | the female followers of Dionysus who were believed to be possessed by gods |
| Midas | king who had the ability to turn everything into gold; his ears were transformed into a donkey’s ears when he insulted Apollo |
| Narcissus | a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty; was turned into a flower upon dying |
| Niobe | she upset apollo and he killed her sons and daughters, husband killed himself; was transformed into a rock |
| Orpheus | musician, poet, and prophet, married to Eurydice; killed by the Maenads |
| Phaethon | Son of Helios the god and a mortal women; flew his father’s chariot too close to the earth setting the lands on fire |
| Philemon | the husband of Baucis, offered hospitality to the disguised Zeus and Hermes; transformed into a tree with his wife |
| Pyramus | shared love with Thisbe, killed herself due to the death of Pyramus near a tree changing the berries’ color |
| Pyrrha | Her and her husband Deucalion were sole survivors of the flood sent by Zeus |
| Thisbe | shared love with pyramus, killed himself near a tree changing the color of the berries |
