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| Achilles | The mightiest Greek warrior; hero of Homer's Illiad |
| Aeneas | Forefather of the Romans; Hero of Virgil's Aeneid |
| Aphrodite/Venus | goddess of love and beauty, one of the twelve Olympians; patroness of lovers, beauty, sometimes of marriage; sailors; considered a war goddess by Spartans |
| Apollo | God of light and purity, music, poetry, prophecy; one of the twelve Olympians; patron of healers, archers, musicians |
| Ares/Mars | God of war; also of Agriculture to the Romans; one of the twelve Olympians; patron of soldiers |
| Artemis/Diana | Goddess of the hunt and moon; one of the twelve Olympians; patroness of unmarried women and youth, childbirth, wild animals |
| Asclepius/Aesculapius | Mortal who became the god of healing |
| Atalanta | The swiftestof runners and the best hunter in ancient Greece |
| Athena/Minerva | Goddess of wisdom, handicrafts (especially weaving), war, and argriculture; one of the twelve Olympians |
| Bellerophon and Pegasus | A Corinthian hero and the winged horse he tamed |
| Castor and Pollux | Twin divinities; patrons of athletes and sailors at sea |
| Cerberus | Fierce dog that guards the gates of Hades, the Underworld |
| Cronus and Rhea/Saturn and Ops | Rulers of the earth and heavens before the reign of Zeus; Parents of six Olympian gods. |
| Daedalus and Icarus | Famed inventor and sculptor of ancient Greece and his only son |
| Demeter/Ceres | Goddess of agriculture; one of the twelve Olympians; patron of farmers |
| Deucalion | Along with his wife, Pyrrha, the only survivor of the mythical great flood; ancestor of the Greeks through his son Hellen |
| Dionysus/Bacchus | God of wine and divine ecstasy; youngest of the Olympian gods; patron of wine cultivation, revels, religious mysteries |
| Echo and Narcissus | A nuymph of the forest and a handsom son of the river god |
| Eros and Psyche | The archer of love; patron of the arts of loveing AND a Greek Heroine |
| The Fates | The three goddesses of destiny (Moirai to the Greeks, Parcae to the Romans) |
| The Graces | Goddesses of Joy and Grattitude (Charites tothe Greeks, Gratiae to the Romans); bringers of beauty to young girls. |
| Hebe/Iuventas | goddess of eternal youth; cupbearer to the gods |
| Hephaestus/Vulcan | God of the forge and master of the fire; one of the twelve Olympians; patron of metalworkers, blacksmiths, jewelers (and Birmingham) |
| Hera/Juno | Queen of the Gods; one of the twelve Ollympians; protector of married women, childbirth and the home |
| Heracles/Hercules | Greek hero who achieved divinity upon his death; famous for his twelve labors |
| Hermes/Mercury | God of shepherds, travelers, thieves, merchants; one of the twelve Olympians |
| Hestia/Vesta | Goddess of hearth and home; one of the twelve Olympians; protector of all of her cities and women, orphans and lost children (patroness of Vestavia) |
| Iris | Goddess of the rainbow; a messenger of the gods. |
| Janus | God of beginnings; guardian of passageways |
| Jason | Greek hero; leader of the Argonauts |
| Medusa | A once beautiful maiden turned into a monster; killed by the hero Persus; one of the three Gorgons |
| Niobe | A maiden undone by boastfulness and pride |
| Odysseus/Ulysses | Hero of Homer's Odyssey |
| Orpheus | Celebrated Greek musician and poet; one of the few mortals ever to return from the Underworld |
| Pan/Faunus | God of woods, fields, and mountains; patron of shepherds, beekeepers, farmers, hunters |
| Pandora | The first woman; overcome by curiosity, she opened a vase full of evils. |
| Persephone/Proserpina | Goddess of the Underworld; bringer of spring |
| Phaethon | A son of the Sun god; bringer of ruin to the earth and to himself |
| Poseidon/Neptune | God of the sea; one of the twelve Olympians |
| Prometheus | A Titan |
| Pygmalion and Galatea | Sculptor who fell in love with his statue |
| Silenus | A woodland deity; foster father and tutor of Dionysus |
| Sisyphus | Condemned to Hades for betraying Zeus |
| Tantalus | Mortal King who tried to trick the gods; condemned to suffer forever in Hades |
| Theseus | Legendary King of Athens; hero who killed the Minotaur |
| Zeus/Juppiter | King of the gods; ruler of the heavens and the universe; dispenser of justice; protector of human relations |
