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Muses
Goddesses who inspired men and women; they were proficient in arts, literature and science. According to the Boeotians, there were originally three...
By Jimmy Joe
Eris
Goddess of discord and strife. Eris was daughter of Zeus and Hera, or else she was daughter of Nyx. She was often called the sister of Ares, the Gr...
By Jimmy Joe
Iris
Messenger of the gods. Iris was the daughter of Thaumas, the son of the sea god Pontus and the Oceanid Electra. Iris was the sister of the winged m...
By Jimmy Joe
Eileithyia
Goddess of childbirth. Eileithyia was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. Eileithyia was the sister of Ares and Hebe, and possibly of Eris. Eileithyia w...
By Jimmy Joe
Hebe
Goddess of youth and spring. Hebe was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. She was the sister of Ares and Eileithyia, and possibly of Eris. Hebe was hono...
By Jimmy Joe
Metis
Goddess of wisdom and prudence. Metis was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Metis became the first wife of Zeus. Zeus persuaded the goddess to gi...
By Jimmy Joe
Aristaeüs
A minor pastoral deity and protector of the beekeepers. Aristaeüs (Aristaeus) was the son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, the daughter of Hypseus, ...
By Jimmy Joe
Silenus
Silenus or Seilenus was an old satyr-like companion of Dionysus. Dionysus became his foster son, and it was Silenus who taught the young god how to...
By Jimmy Joe
Pan
Woodland god. Pan was the son of Hermes and either Penelope or the daughter of Dryops. Pan was the patron god of the shepherd. Pan was a satyr-like...
By Jimmy Joe
Thetis
A sea-goddess. She was one of the sea-nymphs known as the Nereids. Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris. By far, Thetis was probably the mos...
By Jimmy Joe
Amphitrite
A sea-goddess. Amphitrite was a daughter either of Nereus and Doris or that of Oceanus and Tethys. In the Roman myths, Amphitrite was known as Sala...
By Jimmy Joe
Doris
A sea-goddess. Doris was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Doris was mostly known as mother of the fifty sea-nymphs called the Nereïds (Nereids, ...
By Jimmy Joe
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