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Love; makes his home in men's hearts but not in every heart for where there is hardness he departs
Eros
Goddess of youth; daughter of Zeus and Hera; married to Hercules
Hebe
Goddess of the Rainbow
Iris
Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia
The Graces
daughters of Zeus and Eurynome; a triple incarnation of grace and beauty; queens of song
The Graces
9 in number; daughter of zeus and mnemosyne; later each had their own special field; the man they inspired was sacred for beyond any priest; to inspire creativity
The Muses
Lord and ruler of the sea.
Poseidon
Loard of the river ocean; a great river circling the earth
Ocean
Trumpheter of the sea; son of poseidon and amphitrite
Triton
Power of fortelling the future and changing his shape at will
proteus
Water Nymphs; dwelt in brooks and springs and fountains
Naiads
aged boatmen; ferries the dead across
Charon
Three-headed, dragon tailed dog; permits all all spirits to enter
Cerberus
Acheron
River of Woe
Cocytus
River River of Lamentation
Styx
River of the unbreakable oath
The Furies
punish evildoers
Sleep and Death
Dwelt in the lower world; had 2 gates one to the true dreams and one of ivory for false dreams
Pan (Faunus)
Hermes Son; noisy, merry god; goat horns; goat herds god; all wild places were his home; born in Arcady; great muscian
Lived half on earth, half in heaven
castor and pollux
goat men; homes in wild places of earth
The Satyrs
Half man, half horse; beasts
The Centaurs
earth-dwellers; dragon-like with wings; turned men to stone; phorcys was his father
The Gorgons
enchanting voices; no one saw them ever return, so nobody knows what they look like
The Sirens
The spinner
Clotho
Disposer of Lois
Lachesis
could not be turned, who carried "the abhorred shears"
Atropos
protector of the sowers and the seed; wife ops; reigned in italy
Saturn
the god of good beginnings; chief temper in Rome
Janus