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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.