Graces

Personification of beauty and grace. They were known to the Greeks as Charties and to the Romans as Gratiae. They were the three daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, who was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. The three sisters were named: Charis or Aglaea ("Splendour"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia or Pasithea ("Good Cheer").

In Homer, during the fighting at Troy, Hera promised to Hypnos that the god of sleep could marry Pasithea if he would help to lull Zeus to sleep.

Later, when the sea goddess Thetis went to Hephaestus asking for new armour for her son, Homer said that Hephaestus was married to either Charis or Aglaea, not to the love goddess Aphrodite.

The Graces lived in Olympus with the Olympians, usually serving as attendants of Aphrodite, or they sometimes served Hera. The Graces were first worshipped at the river Cephisus in Orchomenus, Boeotia. Eteoclus, son of the river god Cephisus, was the very first to sacrifice to the Graces.

They were a popular subject in arts, normally shown dancing together in the nude.