List of Greek mythological figures

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A listing of Greek mythological beings. Many of the gods and goddesses had Roman and Etruscan equivalents. See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatures.

Contents

Immortals

Olympian deities

Greek nameEnglish nameDescription
A??????? Aphrodite Goddess of beauty and love.
 ??????? (Apoll?n) Apollo God of the light, music, healing, prophecy, and poetry.
A??? Ares God of war, primarily violent war and bloodshed.
A?????? Artemis Goddess of the hunt and the moon.
A???? Athena Goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war.
 ??????a Demeter Goddess of agriculture.
H??????? (H?phaistos) Hephaestus God of fire and the forge.
H?? Hera Goddess of marriage and the family, wife of Zeus.
E??h? Hermes God of travel, thieves, and commerce. Messenger of the gods.
 ????? Hestia Goddess of the hearth and domestic life. Eventually replaced by Dionysus.
 ???????? Poseidon God of the sea.
 ???? Zeus King of the gods. God of thunder and lightning.

Primordial deities

Greek nameEnglish nameDescription
 ????? (Aith?r) Aether God of the upper air.
 ???? (Khaos) Chaos Non-gendered diety of the nothingness that all else sprung from.
 ?????? (Khronos) Chronos God of eternal time.
 ?????? (Erebos) Erebus God of darkness.
 ???? Eros God of procreation and sexual desire.
 ???? (Gaia) Gaea Goddess of the Earth.
 ????? Hemera Goddess of daylight.
 ??? Nyx Goddess of night.
 ?????? (Pontos) Pontus God of the sea.
 ???????? (Tartaros) Tartarus God of the depths of the underworld.
 ??????? (Ouranos) Uranus God of the heavens.

Other deities

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Titans

The Hundred-Handed (Hecatoncheires)

Cyclopes

River gods

Nymphs

Giants

Mortals

A-B

C-G

H-L

M-P

R-Z


References

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