| A | B |
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| Zues | King of gods, god of sky and weather. He wielded the thunderbolt |
| Hera | Zeus's wife. Titans Ocean and Tethys brought her up. She punished the women Zeus fell in love with |
| Poseidon | Ruler of the Sea. |
| Hades | Ruler of the Underworld. His wife was Persephone |
| Pallas Athena | She sprang from Zeus' head. Goddess of wisdom, arts and crafts. |
| Phoebus Apollo | God of Sun. |
| Artemis | Goddess of hunt, harvest, and the moon |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love & Beauty |
| Hermes | winged messenger god. |
| Ares | god of war |
| Hephaestus | god of fire and metalwork |
| Hestia | goddess of the hearth |
| HeBe | goddess of youth; married to Hercules |
| Iris | goddess of the Rainbow |
| Muses | 9 daughters of Zeus + Mnemosyne. One band of lovely sisters. They were muses of history, astronomy, tradegy, comedy, dance, epic poetry, and love poetry |
| Graces | 3 sisters. Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia. one band of lovely sisters |
| Ocean | A Titan. Lord of River Ocean. Wife was Tethys |
| Oceanids | nympths of great river. They were Tethys and Ocean's daughters. |
| Pontus | the son of mother earth and father of Nereus, a sea-god. |
| Nereus | he was called "old man of Sea." His wife was Doris, daughter of Ocean. They had 50 daughters, nympths of the sea, called Nereids |
| Prometheus | he gave the gift of fire to man |
| Pandora | she opened the box which let all the evils of the world escape |
| Persephone | the daughter of Demeter and the wife of Hades |
| Narcissus | he was cursed by a god to fall in love with his own reflection |
| Echo | nymph who was cursed by Hera so she could only repeat words of others |
| Midas | All he touched turned to gold |
| Minos | He constructed the labyrinth |
| Icarus | His wings melted when he flew too close to the sun |
| Charon | the boatman of the dead who demanded a coin for passage |
| Tartarus | the underworld was known as this |
| Cerberus | three heaeded god who guarded the underworld |
| Homer | poor Greek farmer who wrote Theogany |
| Ovid | Roman poet who told almost all the myths; thought they were all nonsense. |
| Rhea | Zeus's mother;she hid her son from his father |
| Sophocles | tragic poet who wrote Oedipus the King |
| Virgil | Roman writer who brought mythological characters to life |
| Triton | trumpeter of the sea. |
| Proteus | had the power foretelling the future and of changing his shape at will. |
| The Naiad's | were water nympths. dwelt in brooks, springs, and foutains |
| Underworld | Kingdom of the Dead. Ruled by Hades and his Queeb Persephone |
| The Erinyes | they punished evil doers in the underworld. represented by 3 people - Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto |
| Demeter | Goddess of corn and harvest; earth goddess |
| Dionysus | God of wine |
| Pan | he was part part goat, with goats horns and goats hooves, part human. he was god of goatherders and shepherds |
| Silenus | he rode a donkey cause he was to drunk to walk. He taught Dionysus when he was young. |
| Castor and Pollux | sons of Leda. They were special protectors of sailors |
| Leda | wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta. |
| the Satyrs | they were goat-man |
| Oreads | nymphs of mountains |
| Dryads | nymphs of trees, whose life was in each case bound with that of her tree |
| Aeolus | King of Wind. Viceroy of gods |
| the Centaurs | half man, half horse, most part savage. Chiron was known everywhere for goodness and wisdom |
| Gorgons | 3 of them. 2 ofthem were immortal. Dragon like creatures with wings, whose look turned man to stone. |
| Graiae | Gorgons sisters. 3 gray women. They had but one eye between them. they lived on farther bank of the Ocean |
| Sirens | lived on island sea. had enchanting voicces and their singing lured sailors to death. Not known what they looked like because no one returned who saw them. |
| Fates | 3 goddesses who determined human destiny |
| Eros | god of love |
