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Athena

Athena (sometimes transliterated as Athene), the patron of the city of Athens, was one of the most revered goddesses of Ancient Greece. Around 1000 BCE, Athena replaced the fertility goddess worshiped and became the patron and gave her…
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Callisto

Callisto’s story is one of many wherein a youth wrongfully feels the wrath of the divine through no fault of their own. Callisto’s father had been a king of Arcadia, and she herself a maiden follower of Artemis.…
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Charites (Graces)

All those gentler attributes which beautify and refine human existence were personified by the Greeks under the form of three lovely sisters, Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia, the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome (or, according to later writers, of…
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Danae

Danae was the mother of the renown hero Perseus. Her father was Acrisius, king of Argos. Perseus, one of the most renowned of the legendary heroes of antiquity, was the son of Zeus and Danaë, daughter of Acrisius,…
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Demeter

As the domain of men was hunting and gathering, the women took to plowing and scattering seeds to reap harvest. A female deity would best understand a woman’s work, and Demeter was born to worship. She was the…
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Dionysus (Bacchus)

Dionysus, also called Bacchus (from bacca, berry), was the god of wine, and the personification of the blessings of Nature in general. The worship of this divinity, which is supposed to have been introduced into Greece from Asia…
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Eros (Cupid)

Eros, the god of love, could stir desire into the hearts of anyone he pleased with a simple draw and release of his enchanted arrow. By some accounts, he sprang out of the primordial chaos and brought order…
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Europa

The mortal consorts of Zeus In addition to the seven immortal wives of Zeus, he was also allied to a number of mortal maidens whom he visited under various disguises, as it was supposed that if he revealed…
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Eurynome

Eurynome was mother to the Charities (the Three Graces) with Zeus. She was daughter of the titan Oceanus. In the myths pertaining to Hephaestus, Eurynome and the goddess Thetis nursed the Olympian god when he was an infant…
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Furies

The three Furies—Tisiphone, Megaera and Alecto—were deities of vengeance. The Iliad depicts them as residing below Earth in the underworld where they punish evildoers. When the Titan Cronus wounded his father Uranus, the Erinyes sprung from his blood. Their office…
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