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Persephone (Kore)
A goddess of the underworld. Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was known (or by her title) as Kore (Κόρη, "maiden"). The Romans ...
By Jimmy Joe
Hades (Pluto)
Lord of the Underworld. Hades was the son of the titans, Cronus and Rhea. Hades was the god of the dead, and ruled his world with more absolute pow...
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Tartarus
Tartarus was the deepest region of the Underworld. It was said that it took nine days and nine nights for an anvil to fall from the earth's surface...
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Elysian Fields
Hesiod called Elysium – the Isle of Blessed. Those mortals who were lucky to be favoured by the gods would dwell in Elysium, or Elysian Fields, and...
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Underworld
The world of the dead or the netherworld was commonly viewed by the ancient religions to be a subterranean realm ruled by a god, a goddess, or both...
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Astraeüs
Son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Perses and Pallas. By the goddess Eos, he was the father of Boreas, Zephyrus and Notus -...
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Pallas
Pallas was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Perses and Astraeüs (Astraeus). He married the Oceanid Styx, and became t...
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Perses
Perses was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia. He was the brother of Astraeüs (Astraeus) and Pallas. He married Asteria and became the father ...
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Asteria
Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeüs (Coeus) and Phoebe. She was the sister of Leto. Asteria married Perses and became mother of Hecate. No...
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Leto
Leto was the daughter of the Titans Coeüs (Coeus) and Phoebe. Leto was the sister of Asteria. It is uncertain what attributes that this goddess had...
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Dione
Dione was an obscure goddess. It was not certain whether she was either a Titaness or an Oceanid. None of the writers I had come across said anythi...
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Epimetheus
Titan of afterthought. Epimetheus ("Afterthought") was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia. Brother of Prometheus, Menoetiu...
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