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| Aurora | Goddess of the dawn; every morning she went across the sky spreading dew; called Eos in Greek |
| Cupid | God of desire and love; son of Mercury and Venus; holds bow and arrow |
| Dryads | nymph of oak trees; protected the trees and lived as long as the tree did |
| Faunus | God of forest and fields; associated with Greek god Pan |
| Hecate | Goddess of magic and witchcraft; depicted as holding torches; protector bringing prosperity |
| Iris | personification of the rainbow and messenger god; faithful servant of Hera |
| Janus | God of beginnings and transitions; depicted as having two faces one towards the past and one towards the future |
| Lares | guardian dieties who protected roman households and state |
| Leda | princess married to Tyndareus and had an affair with Zeus who turned into a swan to seduce her |
| Muses | Goddeses of literature, arts, and science; considered source of knowledge in poetry |
| Naiads | nymph of springs, rivers, lakes, and fountains |
| Nymph | spirits of nature; associated with fertile growing things |
| Oreads | nymphs of mountains; identififed by where they lived |
| Penates | household gods who watched over the home or community they belonged to |
| Quirinus | early god possibly of war worshipped by Sabines; associated with Jupiter and Mars |
| Saturnus | God of seed or sowing; assoicated with Greek god Cronus |
| Actaeon | Greek hero and hunter; symbolizes sacrifice in attempt to please Gods |
| Adonis | God of beauty and desire; originally worshipped in Phoenicia later adopted by Greeks |
| Arachne | weaver who portrayed the gods abusing humans; turned into a spider by foe Athena |
| Baucis | only one along with husband Philemon to welcome gods Zeus and Hermes |
| Daphne | first love of Apollo; dryad daughter of river god Peneus |
| Deucalion | Son of Prometheus; him and his wife Pyrrha only survivors of flood by Zeus |
| Echo | mountain nymph who loved to talk which lead her to offending the goddess Hera |
| Europa | Cretan moon goddess; originally virgin Phoenician princess |
| Hyacinth | Spartan prince and lover of the god Apollo |
| Maenads | female followers of Dionysus roamed the mountains and forests dancing, believed to be possessed by gods |
| Midas | could make anything he touched turn into gold, a power given to him by Dionysus |
| Narcissus | so handsome he fell in love with his own image in water; son of the river god Cephissus |
| Niobe | her arrogance and bragging about her sons upset Apollo and he killed her sons |
| Orpheus | learned musical skills from Apollo; became the patron of a religious movement based on sacred writings |
| Phaethon | son of the sun God Helios and mortal woman |
| Philemon | along with wife Baucis, they were the only ones to welcome gods Zeus and Hermes |
| Pyramus | lover of Thisbe; shared forbidden love with Thisbe |
| Pyrrha | wife of Deucalion;she and her husband only ones to surrive flood |
| Thisbe | lover of Pyramus in Babylon; shared forbidden love with Pyramus |
