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The Furies, Galatea, Gemini, Glaucus, the Graces, the Hamadryads, Harmonia.

GAIA
Goddess of mother Earth, and the Earth itself, she was immensely important in both worship and mythology. She birthed Uranus and from them all the Titans, Cyclopes and monsters.

HADES
God of the Underworld, of the dead, of death, or death himself. He was dreaded and his name avoided, tho as Pluto he was worshipped as the source of all underground wealth. The kidnapping of Persephone is his best known myth.

Erato, The Erinyes (Furies), Eros (Cupid), the Eumenides, Euphrosyne, Eurus, Eurydice, Eurynome, Euterpe, the Fates, the Fauns, Faunus, Favonius, Flora.

ERIS
When Peleus and Thetis married they invited everyone except the disagreeable Eris, so she hatched her revenge, she went to the wedding with a gift: a golden apple with the words 'for the fairest' causing Hera, Athena & Aphrodite to argue for who this was, so they went to the Trojan prince Paris, who chose Aphrodite after a promise to gift him the most beautiful woman - Helen of Sparta, starting the Trojan War.

ECHO
She had to distract Juno (Hera) by talking with her while Jupiter (Zeus) spent his time with some mountain nymphs. Juno punished her by condemning her to only being able to repeat fragments of what others said. After falling in love with Narcissus, who spurned her, she wasted away and became just a voice.

The Dioscuri (Castor & Pollux), Dis (Pluto), Doris, The Dryads, Egeria, Eileithyia, Electra, Enyo, Eos.

DEMETER
Goddess of the harvest, grain, and agriculture. Mother of Persephone, famously kidnapped by Hades.

DIONYSUS
The God of wine, he was wildly popular as the most democratic God, seeing men & women, young & old, slave & free, and even human & animal as all equal to him.

Cupid, The Curetes, Cybele, Cynthia (Artemis or Hera), Cyprian & Cytherea (Aphrodite), Diana (Artemis), Dike, Dione.

CRONUS
Born of Uranus, castrated and overthrew him. Was given a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him so he swallowed them after birth, only to be overthrown by his son Zeus after he was hidden and Cronus was given a stone in a blanket to swallow instead.

CHARON
The ferryman across the river Styx, he takes the souls of the dead from Hermes and the realm of the living to the realm of the dead for the price of a coin. Only a few select heroes were able to convince Charon to take them across the Styx while alive.

The Camenae, Castor, Cephissus, Ceres, Chaos, The Charites (Graces), Circe, Clio, Clotho, Clymene, Coeus, Cora, The Corybantes.

ATHENA
Goddess of defensive just war, wisdom, and crafts.

ATLAS
Punished to carry the heavens on his shoulders by Zeus after fighting against him in the struggle between Titans like Atlas and the Olympian Gods like Zeus.

Astraea, Ate, Atropos, Aurora, Auster, Bacchus, Bellona, Boreas, Bromius, Calliope, Calypso.

Ares, Artemis, Asclepius.

Gods of war, the wild hunting and childbirth, and of healing.

Aphrodite - born either of Zeus and Dione or from the sea foam of Uranus' castrated testes by Cronus. Goddess of love & sexuality. Those she favoured benefited tremendously. Those she scorned would suffer immensely.

Apollo - God of healing, prophecy, music, poetry, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. He would later be associated - and would replace - Helios, the Sun God.

PART I
GODS, GODDESSES, SPIRITS, AND NYMPHS

Introduction

Here we will see gods, goddesses, heroes, spirits, monsters, places and more of Greco-Roman mythology, especially those connected to Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Some ancient writers disagreed on the name spelling or the myths themselves, so we will present the most common ones.