History Characters / ClassicalMythologyProtogenoi

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

* GreenThumb / DishingOutDirt: Within her capacities, but by no means the only powers she had.

A formless void that preceeded the universe. It translates from Greek as emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss. In Myth/ClassicalMythology all things came into existance from Khaos. It/she among the oldest of the Protogenoi, probably the oldest. It is not clear whether she is alive or not, and is only refered to as female poetically as it is older than gender, even hermaphroditic gender. Arche, the other term used to name this being [[EldritchAbomination if being it is]], translates roughly as; beginning, origin, first cause/power, sovereignty, domination, ultimate underlying substance, and ultimate undemonstrable principle. Thus Khaos is the Arche in Myth/ClassicalMythology.

* EldritchAbomination: The closest thing to it in Myth/ClassicalMythology. Creator/{{Ovid}} described it as “a rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named”.

* PrimordialChaos: TropeNamer

* SmallRoleBigImpact: In ''Literature/{{Theogony}}'' where it birthed Gaia, Tartaros, Nyx and Eurebos .

* AnimalsNotToScale
* EldritchAbomination: All Protogenoi are on some level.

* MultipleHeadCase: However, he is usually described as a serpent with the heads of three different animals.
* WingedHumanoid: This is how he is most often depicted.

'''Phanes''' (Appearance), Protognos (the First Born), Himeros/Eros (Procreation), Ericapaeus (Power), Metis (Thought)

Literally designated as the first born, amoung other names, implying that the only two beings that are older than him, Khaos and Ophioneus, were not born. Phanes is a hermaphrodite who is addressed with male pronouns rather than neutral ones. He is the Primevial deity and personification of new life and procreation, who created the method of creation by mingling. He is described as having a helmet and broad golden wings. He has a long list of names, including Eros, though he is not the same being as the son of Aphrodite, he is the older representation of that concept and the embodiment of male sexual desire.

The Primordial Goddess and personification of Creation, female creation that is, counterpart to Phanes. Born at the same time as Hydros. Not to be confused with Thetis, a Nymph who is the mother of Achilles by Peleus.

God and personification of Primordial Waters, born at the same time as Thesis.

Nyx is the personification of Night and one of the protogenoi (female singular: protogeneia), deities that have existed since the beginning of the universe. Thus somewhat [[EldritchAbomination less comprehensible for us]]. She is the daughter of Khaos, yet a few texts claim she is actually the first protogeneia. Nyx is mother to many deities with her brother Erebus, including fearsome beings like Thanatos (Death), Moros (Doom), and Geras (Old Age), but also Philotes (friendship), Hemera (Day), and Hypnos (Sleep). She's often portrayed as a figure of exceptional power and beauty. Even Zeus fears her, and allowed Hypnos to escape after causing misfortune to Heracles.

'''Erebus''' (Erebos)

* CastingAShadow: Presumably amoung his powers.

The everpresent MotherNature. [[VideoGame/AgeOfMythology Some]][[VideoGame/GodOfWar times]] depicted as a titan (which to most people is a loose definition of any non-Olympian ancient deity), she was actually a protogeneia, in the same league as Ouranos and Nyx; with the former she copulated to give birth to the titans, as well as some critters like the cyclops. Because her husband didn't liked the abominations they "created", she had to hide them in her bowels, which caused her imense pain, forcing thus Kronos to castrate his dad. But Kronos still imprisoned the cyclops and hekantonkheires (the non-titan offspring of Gaia and Ouranos, which Ouranos liked the least) in Tartaros (often depicted as a part of Gaia; keep reading), which in turn made her raise Zeus to overthrow his father. And later, Zeus imprisoned the titans in Tartaros, which made Gaia unhappy again, so she had sex with Tartaros (which, mind you, might or might not be part of her, as well being a physical location, not something alive) and gave birth to Typhon, which was thankfully overthrown by Zeus. She seems to have given up on killing the patriarch deity since then.

* LazyBum: She is depicted in mythology as extremely powerful, but prefers to spawn minor eldritch abominations to do her dirty work.

* NatureIsNotNice: Unlike modern interpretations (and very much unlike other contemporary fertility goddesses, like Demeter), Gaia was not as much a pure benevolent figure as a true force of Nature; she cared little for everyone else, so long as they weren't filling her bowels and causing her pain. Thus, she spawned several monsters to kill the ruling gods like Ouranos and Zeus, regardless of the lives at stake. She did care about her followers, however.

* AssholeVictim

* TakingYouWithMe: Unwilling to go down without leaving his son paranoid about suffering the same fate... [[SoreLoser or giving the Titans their nickname]].

* NamesTheSame: Gyges has no clear relation with the [[ArtifactOfDoom Ring of Gyges]], which Plato wrote of in TheRepublic.

** PowerOfTheVoid: Likely to be more along the lines of this, given how Khaos represents total, primal nothingness.

* TakingYouWithMe: Unwilling to go down without leaving his son paranoid about suffering the same fate.
** SoreLoser: ...or giving the Titans their nickname.

* [[BeamSpam Rock Spam]]: With their hundred hands, the Hekatonkheires were able to launch hundreds of mountain-sized rocks at the Titans continuously until they were too overwhelmed to fight back.
* SealedGoodInACan

'''Anake'''

Literally designated as the first born, amoung other names, implying that the only two beings that are older than him, Khaos and Ophioneus, were not born. Phanes is a hermaphrodite who is addressed with male pronouns rather than neutral ones. He is the Primevial deity and personification of new life and procreation, who created the method of creation by mingling. He is described as having a helmet and broad golden wings. He has a long list of names, including Eros, though he is not the same being as the son of Aphrodite, he is the older representation of that concept and the embodyment of male sexual desire.

* [[GodIsEvil Goddess Is Evil]]: Unlike modern interpretations (and very much unlike other contemporary fertility goddesses, like Demeter), Gaia was not as much a pure benevolent figure as a true force of Nature; she cared little for everyone else, so long as they weren't filling her bowels and causing her pain. Thus, she spawned several monsters to kill the ruling gods like Ouranos and Zeus, regardless of the lives at stake. She did care about her followers, however.

* GaiasVengeance: Literally, and three times according to mythology. She, however, couldn't care less about how many trees you cut or oceans you polute; in Greek myth, after all, [[DeconstructedTrope she wasn't responsible for all aspects of nature]]. To her, what mattered was whereas someone was causing her pain or not, as well as rewarding those who worshiped her.

A formless void that preceeded the universe. It translates from Greek as emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss. In ClassicalMythology all things came into existance from Khaos. It/she among the oldest of the Protogenoi, probably the oldest. It is not clear whether she is alive or not, and is only refered to as female poetically as it is older than gender, even hermaphroditic gender. Arche, the other term used to name this being [[EldritchAbomination if being it is]], translates roughly as; beginning, origin, first cause/power, sovereignty, domination, ultimate underlying substance, and ultimate undemonstrable principle. Thus Khaos is the Arche in ClassicalMythology.

* EldritchAbomination: The closest thing to it in ClassicalMythology. Creator/{{Ovid}} described it as “a rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named”.

* TheSacredDarkness: Also a reasonable assumption, not a lot is known about him, but when it comes to the gods of ClassicalMythology "no news is good news".

* NonIdenticalTwins

* NonIdenticalTwins

* PowerOfTheVoid: Maybe. It is a bottomless gulf where anything falls endlessly and is a place without any possible orientation, where anything falls in every direction.

** Sore loser. Aka, how the Titans got their name.

** Sore loser. Aka, how the Titans got their name.

* [[GodIsEvil Goddess Is Evil]]: Unlike modern interpretations (and very much unlike other contemporary fertility goddesses, like Demeter), Gaia was not as much a pure benevolent figure as a true force of Nature; she cared little for everyone else, so long as they weren't filling her bowels and causing her pain. Thus, she spawned several monsters to kill the ruling gods like Ouranos and Zeus, regardless of the lives at stake. She did cared about her followers, however.

* TheSacredDarkness: Also a reasonable assumption, not a lot is know about him, but when it comes to the gods of ClassicalMythology "no news is good news".

Literally designated as the first born, amoung other names, implying that the only two beings that are older than him, Khaos and Ophioneus, were not born. Phanes is a hermaphrodite who is addressed with male pronouns rather than neutral ones. He is the Primevial deity and personification of new life and procreation, who created the method of creation by mingling. He is described as having a helmet and broad golden wings. He has a long list of names, including Eros, though he is not the same being as the son of Aphrodite, he is the older repressentation of that concept and the embodyment of male sexual desire.

* LoyalToTheJob

* SadlyMythtaken: She would like to have a word with CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers.

* BlowYouAway: As the first of the Protogenoi and the god of the air
* EldritchAbomination: The closest thing to it in ClassicalMythology. Creator/{{Ovid}} described it as “a rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named”

* PowerOfTheVoid: Maybe. It is a bottomless gulf where anything falls endlessly and is a place without any possible orientation, where anything falls in every direction

* EldritchAbomination: All Protogenoi are on some level

* WingedHumanoid: This is how he is most often depicted
** MultipleHeadCase: However, he is usually described as a serpent with the heads of three different animals

* DemotedToExtra: Same as Chronos
* YouCantFightFate: The reminder for everyone

* ElementalEmbodiment: Of Water

* CastingAShadow: Presumably amoung his powers

* TheSacredDarkness: Also a reasonable assumption, not a lot is know about him, but when it comes to the gods of ClassicalMythology "no news is good news"

* BlowYouAway: Possible power

* LightEmUp: Reasonable power assumption

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction

* DemotedToExtra: He was a larger figure in Orphic religion, which was a little different than the ancient Greek mythology we are more familiar with.

The son of Erebus and Nyx, personification of light, the upper sky, space, heaven and the bright, glowing, [[pure air that gods breath. Hemera is his sister and mate.

The underworld, or that special part of it where the dead suffer, and the personification there of. This makes him different from other gods of the under world in classical mythology in that while they rule, it is named after them only in the form of {ruler's} land(s)/domain/kingdom/what-have-you, [[SadlyMythtaken a common mistake]] made all the more difficult to correct by [[SpeakOfTheDevil the fear of speaking the name of such deities]]. He is located below the younger protogenoi; Gaea, Pontus and Ouranus. He is sometimes depicted as the father of Typhon, having had an affair with Gaia.

* GaiasVengeance: Literally, and three times according to mythology. She, however, couldn't care less about how many trees you cut or oceans you polute; in Greek myth, after all, [[DeconstructedTrope she wasn't responsible for all aspects of nature]]. To her, what mattered was whereas someone was causing her pain or not, as well as rewarding those who worshipped her.

A formless void that preceeded the universe. It translates from Greek as emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss. In ClassicalMythology all things came into existance from Khaos. It/she is the oldest of the Protogenoi, if not older. It is not clear whether she is alive or not, and is only refered to as female poetically as it is older than gender, even hermaphroditic gender. Arche, the other term used to name this being [[EldritchAbomination if being it is]], translates roughly as; beginning, origin, first cause/power, sovereignty, domination, ultimate underlying substance, and ultimate undemonstrable principle. Thus Khaos is the Arche in ClassicalMythology.

* TheOlderImmortal: If it even has sentience, which is unknown. It is the oldest being in the Greek Cosmology
* OneSceneWonder: In ''Literature/{{Theogony}}'' where it birthed Gaia, Tartaros, Nyx and Eurebos .

Serpent who rule Mt. Olympus before the titans and Incubated the [[CosmicEgg Orphic Egg]] from which all the other Protogenoi were born.

* SealedGoodInACan
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[[folder:Minor deities]]
'''Eros'''

The god of love, he was dainty and non-threatening, [[ThePowerOfLove but still managed to best even the greatest of gods]] (usually by [[CombatPragmatist taking potshots from far away]] with his bow, which had arrows that could inspire both love and hate). Early sources thought of him as a protogenos who emerged [[SpontaneousGeneration self formed]] from an egg at the beginning of creation, but later ones saw him as the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young]] son and/or servant of Aphrodite. His more famous Roman name is '''Cupidus''' (Cupid).

* AbusiveParents: Well, Ares was [[http://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cupidchastised.jpg Ares]], but even Aphrodite had her moments such as leaving him with the [[AxCrazy Maniae]] and punishing him for [[SarcasmMode daring]] to have a beautiful wife.
** That painting is actually of their Roman counterparts (Mars and Cupid). Ares in Greek myth [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold was actually very protective of his childern]] and there is the fact that painting was by italian painter Bartolomeo Manfredi which kinda makes it just FanArt.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of love.
** That is the minor god version, Eros as a Protogenoi is seen as procreation and desire more than the feeling of love.
* HappilyMarried: With Psyche, even though Aphrodite is a real bitch to her daughter-in-law.
* KidsAreCruel / TeensAreMonsters: These are the ages he's most likely to be shown as cruel rather than playful.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Inspires this. Also ends up a victim of this: see Psyche's entry directly below.
* LovePotion: His arrows.
* MommasBoy: He was his mother's constant companion.
* OppositesAttract: Golden-winged, joyful protogenos Eros mated with dark, unsmiling Khaos and [[JustSoStory created all birds]]. Also, in some of the myths where he's a protogenos he brought all the elements of Khaos together to create the world.
* ParentalFavoritism: Aphrodite obviously liked him better than her other children.
* PrettyBoy: Pretty much every version of him is described as 'the fairest of the deathless gods'.
* SadlyMythtaken: The whole "love is blind" thing. He was originally considered superior to Ananke (Necessity) because he ''did'' value beauty and drove people and gods to do more than just what was necessary.
* PhysicalGod
* SpoiledBrat: Even his mother knew he was this.
* ThePowerOfLove: Not even the king of the gods himself is immune to love. Ironically, not even Eros himself is immune to it. Cue Psyche's myth.
** HeartBeatDown: If he has anything to say about it (and he does) you will feel the love tonight, no ifs, ands, or buts.
* ThemeTwinNaming: With Himeros, and sometimes Anteros.
* ThickerThanWater: Despite Aphrodite being shallow, unreliable, and all around bitchy, he still served her faithfully.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway?: [[TheArcher Apollo]] thought this, but he quickly found out that HeartIsAnAwesomePower and LoveHurts.
* WingedHumanoid

'''Psyche'''

Former [[EverythingIsBetterWithPrincesses mortal princess]] of Sicily, and now [[HappilyMarried wife]] of the God of Love and personification of the Soul. Very [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman beautiful]] and [[CuriousAsAMonkey insatiably curious]], both traits tend to get her into (and occasionally out of) trouble. [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Gained her immortality]] through [[RedemptionQuest completing]] several [[ImpossibleTask tasks]] on behalf of her [[ObnoxiousInLaws mother-in-law]] after giving into her [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot curiosity]] and betraying her husband’s trust. [[http://www.shmoop.com/cupid-psyche/summary.html Longer synopsis here.]]

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the Soul.
* AttractivenessIsolation: Thought she was the victim of this. Her lack of luck was actually because of a spiteful Goddess of Love.
* BeautifulDreamer: Why Eros/Cupid [[LoveAtFirstSight falls in love with her]] and cannot go through with his mother's plan.
* BeastAndBeauty: This tale fits most of the same elements, but acts as a subversion: in a ProphecyTwist, the "[[WingedHumanoid winged]] [[LoveHurts monster]]” she was to marry ended up being the God of Love.
* [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Becoming a Goddess]]
** WingedHumanoid: Shown with butterfly wings.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
--> [Psyche] tells her [jealous sister] what had happened, then tricks her sister into believing that Cupid has chosen [the sister] as [his] wife on the mountaintop. Psyche later meets her other sister and deceives her likewise. Each sister goes to the top of the peak and jumps down eagerly, but Zephyrus [the West Wind] does not bear them and they fall to their deaths at the base of the mountain.
** MamaBear / PregnantBadass: During her RedemptionQuest, she was in the family way. Not to mention that much of her reasoning to [[ForbiddenFruit look upon her husband]] was to protect her unborn child:
--> The two jealous sisters tell Psyche, then pregnant with Cupid's child, that rumour is that she had married a great and terrible serpent who would devour her and her unborn child when the time came for it to be fed.
** Believing that her husband is quite possibly a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent winged serpent]], what does she do? Collects a lamp with which to see him and a dagger [[http://mizii.com/mythbook/emyths/greek/fables/graphics/psychcup.gif that appears to be]] no larger than 22 cm [9”] to cut off his head if this is indeed true. Let me repeat that: Psyche fully intends to decapitate a freaking dragon with basically a steak knife.
* BlasphemousBoast: According to her suitors, she was "more beautiful than Aphrodite". Needless to say, Aphrodite did not [[MisplacedRetribution take]] that [[DisproportionateRetribution well]].
* ConflictingLoyalty: Trust her husband or trust her sisters; either way it came down to the protection of her unborn child.
** MyGodWhatHaveIDone
** TearsOfRemorse: As Eros flew off, Psyche was “prostrate on the ground, filling the place with mournful lamentations.”
* CuriousAsAMonkey: Grownup version.
** CuriosityIsACrapshoot: She’s the page image.
** DidntThinkThisThrough: Even after all that has happened, she still takes a peek into the Box of Beauty.
* {{Determinator}}
** IWillFindYou: Even if she has to petition every god in the pantheon to do so (Fortunately, it only took [[RuleOfThree three]]. Unfortunately, number three was [[ObnoxiousInLaws Aphrodite]]).
** LoveWillLeadYouBack: And it does. Eventually.
** ToHellAndBack: One of only six to succeed, as well as being the only woman and completely mortal (no [[DivineParentage Divine Ancestry]] whatsoever) to do so.
* DisproportionateRetribution / MisplacedRetribution: Frequent victim of this.
* [[DivineDate Divine Marriage]]
** LoveBeforeFirstSight: She was [[ForbiddenFruit forbidden to look upon her husband]] and still managed to fall for him.
** EternalLove
** GodCouple: By the end.
** HappilyEverAfter
** HappilyMarried
* EarnYourHappyEnding: On one hand, she went through a RedemptionQuest to get him back. On the other, her [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot curiosity]] had her fall into [[FauxDeath eternal sleep]] when she [[ForbiddenFruit opened the box of beauty]]. On a third hand, technically they both needed to earn their happy endings so even if Psyche had finally [[ImpossibleTask gained Aphrodite’s forgiveness and approval]] it would not change a thing if Eros had not forgiven her (he too had to earn his by coming to terms that his wife is fallible and standing up to his mother).
** BabiesEverAfter: Their daughter Hedone / Volupta (means either Delight or Pleasure).
* EverythingIsBetterWithPrincesses: Third daughter of a king of Sicily.
** PrincessInRags: While completing Aphrodite/Venus’s tasks.
* FauxDeath: After opening the [[ShmuckBait Box of Beauty]].
** TrueLovesKiss: How she is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_Revived_by_Cupid%27s_Kiss awakened afterwards]].
* ForbiddenFruit /ShmuckBait: She nearly averted this. When her husband Cupid told her never to look upon his true form, she was perfectly fine with it until her sisters convinced her that he might be a horrible monster (despite that she had previously felt his body and had plenty chance to feel his face). At least she only had to deal with a MamaBear that was already mad at her instead of the DeaderThanDead fate that usually befalls those who look upon undisguised gods.
** And then, when she was sent to bring back the beauty of Persephone in a box and despite being counselled against it, [[DidntThinkThisThrough she peeked]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: At least when it comes to her sisters (at first).
* [[ImpossibleTask Impossible and (often) Deadly Tasks]]: Given these to earn back her husband. The tasks are: 1) Sorting huge piles of grains and lentils in a single night, 2) Retrieving some golden wool from vicious sheep, 3) Retrieving water flowing from an elevated cleft that is impossible to achieve on foot and is also guarded by great serpents, and 4) Retrieving a Box of Beauty from the Queen of the Underworld. She succeeds (with some help); Aphrodite/Venus is [[WhyWontYouDie not pleased]].
* [[ChainedToARock Left for Dead on a Mountainside]]
** HumanSacrifice / VirginSacrifice: She and her family thought she was going to be this.
* LoveHurts
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Pre-Immortality.
* NonHumanLoverReveal
* ObnoxiousInLaws
* ProperLady
** SilkHidingSteel
* ProphecyTwist: Psyche is destined to “marry a [[WingedHumanoid winged]] [[LoveHurts monster]] that [[ThePowerOfLove neither god]] [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower nor mortal]] [[HeartBeatDown can resist]]”. Sound familiar?
* RedemptionQuest
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: So much so that the God of Love himself fell for her.
** SoBeautifulItsACurse: Especially after the Goddess of Love and Beauty [[GreenEyedMonster takes it personally]].
* YoungestChildWins

'''Pan''' (Faunus)

Son of Hermes. God of nature, mountains, shepherds and sexuality (especially males). A satyr-like TricksterArchetype who is mainly concerned with the preservation of Nature and the enjoyment of earthly pleasures such as music and sex. The panflute is named after him. An overall "free-spirit" who often pals with Dionysus, but generally doesn't interact with other gods simply because he doesn't care about political schemes unless it concerns him directly. His name is the root of the word "Panic".

* BeastMan
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Invert, see Hephaestus's. Pan actually has worse reputation.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: According to the many nymphs he chased.
* CarpetOfVirility: Always represented as shaggy.
* DepravedBisexual: Went for both nymphs and shepherds.
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Shares the appearance associated with them, partially responsible for the trope name and their association with that shape, though regular satyrs are seperate entities from him in classical mythology.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: As the protector of livestock, especially supernatural ones or those belonging to gods. Generally friendly, if mischievous and lecherous, with women.
* MagicalFlutist: He could induce fear and panic with his pipes.
* MissingMom: His nymph mother ran away after his birth. Fortunately, his dad Hermes thinks he's awesome and really loves him.
* MusicalAssassin: His primary weapon is his flute.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: In a rather literal sense, as he is the one that spreads ''Pan''ic. Greek warriors never knew why thousands of men would stand bravely for a long time and then suddenly stampede with no warning. All they knew was it was a great mystery, so they attributed it to Pan.
* PhysicalGod
* ReallyGetsAround: At least as much as Zeus himself.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal

'''Thanatos''' (Thanatus)

A personification of (peaceful) Death, son of Nyx and Erebos and twin brother of Hypnos. Because he is Death, he was hated by mortals and even the deathless gods - rather moot since he hated them as well. His Roman counterpart is '''Mors'''.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Sisyphos once managed to cheat death by putting Thanatos in shackles. Eventually Ares rescued him, and Sisyphos died and was compelled to roll a huge rock up a steep hill, the rock would roll back down, forcing him to begin again...for eternity.
* DeathTakesAHoliday: With Thanatos in chains, death was impossible and war became entirley pointless, which is why Ares rescued him.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Got beaten by Herakles once.
* GrimReaper: Although some texts give his role as {{Psychopomp}} to Hermes. He also lets his sisters, Keres, take those who died by violent death.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: In the original depictions, he is despised by mortals for being and bringing death and he hates them back, plus he hates the gods because they're immortal and outside his power (and it doesn't help that most of them are {{Jerk Ass}}es).
* TheHeartless
* PhysicalGod
* PrettyBoy: Despite the [[GrimReaper modern depiction]] of Death, Thanatos was generally shown as a winged, bearded man, or as a handsome, winged youth, depending on the artist and period.

'''Kharon''' (Charon)

The ferryman of the River Acheron, where he helps the souls of the dead to cross, for a small price. Coins were placed in the mouths of the dead to pay the ferrymans toll. Modern interpretations have changed it to the River Styx instead of Acheron that he ferries souls accross, or perhaps both. The River Acheron is also known as the river of pain and Styx as the river of hate, so you don't want to fall into or try wading through either.

* DropTheHammer: Charun has a nice one. See below.
* TheFerryMan
* {{Psychopomp}}
* TookALevelInBadass: While Charon was rather undefined in ancient Greek art, his Etruscan equivalent ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charun Charun]]) was depicted as a big muscular guy, with blue skin, tusks, a BadassBeard, a huge mallet, and a more active role as psychopomp. He has even been featured on BadassOfTheWeek ([[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/charun.html see here]]).
* WingedHumanoid: Charun was sometimes depicted with wings.

'''Hekate''' (Hecate)

Goddess of magic, crossroads and ghosts. Had three appearances, or sometimes just three heads. Lived in the Underworld with Hades and Persephone and was a close friend to the latter. Feared and revered by night travelers, but worshiped by about-to-deliver mothers. She was identified with the Roman goddess '''Trivia'''.

* DarkIsNotEvil
* TheHecateSisters: TropeNamer but not TropeCodifier; see below.
* HotWitch: Her usual representation.
* NatureAdoresAVirgin: Another virgin goddess.
** That is, until she lost her virginity to Hermes.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Extremely powerful according to many stories but somehow was mostly left out from the big names.
* PhysicalGod
* PoisonedWeapons
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Some interpretations of her relationship with Persephone.
* SadlyMythtaken: Despite the modern depictions, she was actually never depicted as "maiden, mother, and crone." When she's manifested in three bodies, they're all the same age.

'''Erinyes''' (Furies)

Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone, the godesses of vengeance. Born from the blood of the castrated Ouranos. They were depicted as ugly, winged women with hair, arms and waists entwined with poisonous serpents. They wielded whips and were clothed either in the long black robes of mourners, or the short-length skirts and boots of huntress- maidens.

* AndIMustScream: They whipped the damned for all eternity.
* KnightTemplar: Their name translates as "avengers".
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "The Furies" is an obvious one. Tisiphone means "Vengeful destruction".
* NightmareFace: [[http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/F46.1.html And how!]]
* SpeakOfTheDevil: They were sometimes reffered to as "The Kindly Ones".
* TearsOfBlood: In response to [[MagicMusic Orpheus]].
* WhipItGood: Their standard form of punishment.
* WingedHumanoid: Greek Mythology is big on this.

'''Horkos''' (Horcus)

A rather obscure character. The god or daemon of oaths who inflicted punishment upon perjurers. Most poeple are more familiar with his Roman counterpart: '''Orcus'''.

* HandicappedBadass: In one Aesop fable, he appears as a lame man.
* KnightTemplar: The aforementioned Aesop fable describes how he drags an oath-braker off a cliff!
* OrcusOnHisThrone: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], despite being ([[DungeonsAndDragons Sort of]]) the TropeNamer. He was actually quite active, and wandered the earth searching for evil-doers.
* PhysicalGod

'''Hypnos''' (Hypnus)

The personification of Sleep, son of Nyx and Erebos and twin brother of Thanatos. Generally not shunned like his twin brother, who is alway at his side in visual art. In {{Homer}} he allowed Hera to harass Heracles by putting Zeus to sleep. Zeus was understandably angry when he woke up but found Hypnos already hidden in Nyx's place, so he held the BoltOfDivineRetribution back since it risked an [[MamaBear angry Nyx]]. Apparently, Hypnos disturbed Zeus a few more times, but always ran behind his mom for protection afterward. His Roman counterpart is '''Somnus'''.

* HomoeroticSubtext: Selene (Moon) once asked Hypnos to put her mortal lover, Endymion, to eternal sleep as an alternative method of immortality. One text said Hypnos was stunned by Endymion's beauty and causes him to sleep with his eyes open, so he could admire Endymion's full face.
* KarmaHoudini: While most gods are, he deserves special mention for avoiding Zeus's BoltOfDivineRetribution.
* PhysicalGod

'''Endovelicus'''

A less known deity worshipped by the Romans, he actually came from the LusitanianMythology, but after the Romans conquered the Iberian Peninsula he became quite a popular deity, until of course the arrival of Christianity. He was a god of healing and light, and was often referred to as ''Deus'', a title now used when referring to the Christian God in Portugese.

* CanonImmigrant
* HealingHands
* HijackedByJesus: Being a god of light was appearently enough for the Christians to identify him as ''Lucifer'' after pagan religions were replaced by Christianity.
* InexplicablyAwesome: As the result of being an addition from a different religion, he never quite fit into the scheme of the pantheon.
* LightEmUp / LightIsGood
* PhysicalGod
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Aendovelicus and, in Portuguese, Endovaelico are alternative spellings/pronounciations of the name.

'''Flora'''

Roman goddess of spring, grain and flowers with no Greek equivalent, first worshipped by other Italic tribes. Her feast, the ''Floralia'' ran from April 28 to May 3 and was a bit raucous.

* EthicalSlut: One of her cognomina was ''meretrix'', "whore".
* GreenThumb
* PhysicalGod

'''The Moirai''' (Fates)

A trio of godesses: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. They are the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, or of Zeus and Themis. They determine fate and control the life cycle. Clotho would determine when someone is born by spinning a length of thread on a spinning wheel, Lachesis would allot the length of time a person had to live by measuring the thread, and Atropos would sever the thread with a pair of shears when it was time for them to die. By the Romans, they were known as '''Nona''', '''Decima''' and '''Morta''' respectively, and collectively called the '''Parcae'''.

* PhysicalGod
* SadlyMythtaken: Often they're portrayed as the goddesses of past, present, and future, like Kronos, or as a maiden, mother, crone trio. Neither is true to the original depictions.

'''Asklepios''' (Asclepius)

In Greek mythology, the patron of medicine and son of Apollo. He not only cured the sick, but recalled the dead to life. This rare authority over Hades may have derived from the circumstances of his own birth. Koronis, a lake nymph, was impregnated by Apollo, yet dared to take in secret a human being as a second lover. So furious was the god on discovering the infidelity that he sent his sister Artemis to slay Koronis. This she did with a pestilence. When the fire was already blazing round the lake nymph on the funeral pyre, Apollo felt compassion for his unborn son, and removed him from the corpse. In this manner Asclepius came into the world and was taught the art of healing by Chiron, the wisest of the Centaurs, beast-like monsters who dwelt in the woodlands. The success of this instruction was so great that Zeus, fearing lest men might contrive to escape death altogether, killed Asclepius with lightning; but at Apollo's request he was revived, according to some authors. Was associated with the Roman god '''Vejovis''' and his staff, The Rod of Asclepius, remains a symbol of medicine to this day.

* TheMedic
* PhysicalGod

'''Hebe'''

Goddess of youth and the original cupbearer for Olympus. She was a daughter of Zeus and Hera, and later married Heracles, after which she gave up her job as cupbearer; she was succeeded in that role by the Trojan prince Ganymede. Her name comes from a Greek word that means "youth" or "prime of life". She was also worshiped as a goddess of forgiveness and pardons

'''The Charities'''

Also know as the '''The Graces''' in Roman mythology, these goddesses (Aglaea ("Splendor"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer")) were the patrons of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility. While Charis is technically the single form of their name and what they could be referred to as individually, in some stories, Charis is the name of a fourth member of their group and not the singular form. There are also sometimes mentioned other members, such as Pasithea, but the first three are always included. Have many possible parents, most notably Zeus and Eurynome, but also Dionysus and Aphrodite, or Helios and a naid named Aegle.

'''The Muses'''

Completely unlike the gospel singing, AmbiguouslyBrown character of the Disney Hercules film, the Muses were the Greek goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science and the arts. One of the largest groups in Olympus, their members were: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. Each goddess represented a different domain (for example, Calliope represented Epic Poetry) and the goddesses were said to be the source of knowledge passed through the oral legends and myths.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Each Muse represents something different:
** Calliope: Epic Poetry
** Clio: History
** Erato: Love Poetry
** Euterpe: Music
** Melpomene: Tragedy
** Polyhymnia: Hymns
** Terpsichore: Dance
** Thalia: Comedy
** Urania: Astronomy
* TheMuse: UrExample, TropeNamer, and TropeCodifier

'''The Horae''' (Hours)

The goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. Started out as general personifications of nature itself in its different seasonal aspects, but later evolved into being the goddesses of order in general and natural justice in particular. Were noted to guard the gates of Olympus, promote the Earth's fertility, and rally stars and constellations. If all of this sounds a little confusing [[ContinuitySnarl it is]]. Lack of unity among the myths has lead to disagreement on some things about these goddesses, including their exact number and even ''who they are''. The most agreed upon number is that there are three of them at any given time, and there are two generations: Thallo, Auxo and Carpo, who were goddesses of the order of nature, and Eunomia, Diké, and Eirene, who were law and order goddesses.

Argos had its own duo of Horae, Damia and Auxesia. Hyginus, a Latin author identified yet a third set made up of Pherousa (goddess of substance and farm estates), Euporie or Euporia (goddess of abundance), and Orthosie (goddess of prosperity). Nonnus, a greek epic poet, mentions yet another set of four Horae, Eiar, Theros, Cheimon and Phthinoporon, whose names were the Greek words for spring, summer, winter and autumn.

And then, finally, there was a completely different group of Hours, who personified the twelve hours, (originally ten) of the day.

'''Pietho'''

Greek goddess of persuasion and seduction. Was know in Roman mythology as '''Suadela'''. Was an attendant and/or companion of Aphrodite and thus is very connected to her. The two were so intertwined, that sometimes they were combined into one character, a reflection of how closely connected the Greeks saw persuasion and love (or lust). Her ancestry is disputed but she maybe the daughter of the titans Tethys and Oceanus.

'''Eileithyia''' (Ilithyia)

As her overly weird name might attest to, this goddess is not a native Greek one, but a transplant from Crete, who became the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery. She was the divine helper of women in labor, and, though its agreed upon generally that here mother is Hera, her father's identity is disputed.

* FlatCharacter: was well known among Greeks, but has few stories and little is developed of her character
* CanonImmigrant: More than likely did not originate from Greece but with the Minoans of Crete.

'''Phobos'''

The son of Ares and Aphrodite, his name means "fear" or "terror". [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That should tell you all you need to know about him]]. For those who are a little slower than most, he is a personification of fear for the Greeks, in particular, the fear brought about through war. He notably road into war with his father Ares, the Goddesses Enyo and Eris, and his brother Deimos. His association seems to have made him unpopular with the Greeks, as he doesn't appear in any major Greek myths as a character. His Roman equivalent is '''Timor'''. It is from his name that we get the word "phobia".

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Enyo'''

A war goddess alongside Ares, she was his companion and counterpart. May have had a son by him named Enyalius in earlier legends, but that name was later conflated with Ares himself (helps that Enyalius was also a war god). Enyo, a daughter of Hera and Zeus, was responsible for orchestrating the destruction of cites, much to her enjoyment, and often accompanied Ares directly into battle. Alongside Eris, Deimos, and Phobos, she instigated the horrors of war. Tied to the Roman goddess '''Bellona''' whose name is related to the Latin word for war, ''bellum''. The older form of Bellona's name was "Duellona" and she was sometimes identified as Mars's wife, sometimes as his sister. When Rome declared war on someone, the Fetial priests had to throw a spear from a column in front of her temple. Bellona was later identified with the Cappadocian Earth and Mother goddess Ma.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* BloodKnight: Possibly the biggest one in the Greek Pantheon, even beating out Ares! Notably, when Zeus went up against Typhon, a creature that all the Greek gods feared, ''she refused to take sides'', instead delighting in watching the conflict from afar!
* BrotherSisterIncest: With Ares, but you should be used to this by now.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Her MO was to cause these.
* PhysicalGod
* RapePillageandBurn: Also part of her MO
* [[WarGod War Goddess]]
* WarisHell: She makes it like this and would have it no other way.

'''Eris'''

The goddess of Strife and Discord, she is found in Roman mythology as '''Discordia''' and has a dwarf planet named after her. Is widely considered a less than pleasant goddess with even more than unpleasant children. She is the daughter of Nyx, which may explain how she got her job. Homer equated her with Enyo, though they are clearly not the same god. Actually escorted the monster Typhon into his battle with Zeus and had a hand in causing the war between Greece and Troy. Has become a deity in the modern religion of Discordianism.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: her whole character, however Discordianism makes her much nicer.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* DisproportionateRetribution: started the Trojan War over not being invited to a wedding

'''Deimos'''

Brother of Phobos (and, like him, had a moon of mars named after him), and the son of Ares, Phobos is the god of fear who commonly accompanied his father, brother, Aunt Enyo, and Eris into war, along with his father's attendants, Trembling, Fear, Dread, and Panic. More of an abstract personification of sheer terror, especially that which is brought on by war, he doesn't really appear in any tales. His Roman equivalent is '''Formido''' or '''Metus'''.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Harmonia'''

The opposite of Eris, she is the goddess of Harmony and Concord, and, fittingly, her Roman counterpart is named, '''Concordia'''. Generally thought to be another child of Ares and Aphrodite (or a daughter of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra), she married the Phoenician prince, Cadmus. Most well known for necklace, the Necklace of Harmonia, which, ironically, brought misfortune to all who came in possession of it.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Homonoia'''

A minor goddess of concord, unanimity, and oneness of mind. Was so similar to Harmonia as to sometimes be equated with her.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Nike'''

Probably one of the most well known of the minor goddesses, she was the goddess of victory (and strength and speed) and was the daughter of Styx and Pallas. Her siblings were Kratos ([[VideoGame/GodOfWar not that Kratos]]), Bia, and Zelus. She and her companions were close to Zeus, and she herself was Zeus's divine charioteer who led him into battle with the Titans. Is noted for having wings, even into classical times and being a friend of Athena. While she doesn't have a planet, moon, or other celestial body named after her, she does have a brand of shoe! Her Roman counterpart was '''Victoria'''.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''The Erotes'''

A group of little love gods that resembled little boys with wings, they were part of Aphrodite's retinue. Four of them (Eros, Anteros, Himeros, and Pothos) were the sons of Aphrodite and Ares.

Anteros was the god of requited love (i.e. returned love or "counter-love') as opposed to just love in general (or unrequited love, or lust) and was a punisher of those who scorn love or other's advances and the avenger of love unrequited. He was given to his brother Eros as a playmate, with the idea that love must be answered if it is to be proper. He physically resembles Eros, except with longer hair, and beautiful plumed butterfly wings. Unlike his brother, he said to be armed either with a Golden Club or arrows of lead.

Himeros was the god of sexual desire and unrequited love. Pothos was the god of longing and yearning.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Nemesis'''

This goddess with a hell of a name was the personification of revenge, in particular, that of divine judgement for hubris before the gods, and was the daughter of Nyx. Her Roman equal was '''Invidia'''.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Adrestia'''

Another goddess of revenge, she was also a goddess of balance and appears to have been tied with war, like her father Ares.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Tyche'''

This goddess is a unique one within the pantheon. While every god was usually heavily worshiped only in specific places, like Athena was the patron god of Athens, Tyche had a unique role, in that was the deity that governed the prosperity and fortune of a city state (aka, its destiny or fate). As such, she was a tutelary goddess: a protector of a specific locations, but every city had their own iconic version of her and considered her their protector. She is believed to have controlled the fortunes of humanity.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Astraea'''

A Greek goddess of justice(similar to the Horae, Dike, who she is sometimes equated with) and also of innocence and purity. She is not to be confused with the goddess Asteria. Called the Celestial Virgin, she is said to be one of the last goddess to come to Earth during man's Golden Age,and, according Ovid, abandoned Earth during the Iron Age. Fleeing humanity's wickedness, she fled to heaven and became the constellation Virgo, her scales of justice becoming the constellation Libra. Like Dike, she is associated with the Roman goddess '''Justitia''' (also known as Lady Justice). One day, it is said that she will return to Earth, bringing with her the return to the utopic Golden Age.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* GodOfGood: possibly the nicest god in the whole pantheon
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: why she left
* TheMessiah: Possibly the closest equivalent Greece has

'''Praxidike'''

The goddess of judicial punishment and the exactor of vengeance, she is closely related to Nemesis in that regard, and also related the the Horae Dike, also a goddess of order and justice. Her daughters Homonoia and (especially) Arete, are more well known.

'''Arete'''

At its basic level, Arete was a concept that was extremely important to the Greeks, commonly thought of as meaning "virtue", its meaning is closer to something like, "being the best you can be," or "reaching your highest human potential." So its natural that there was a goddess that represented the concept. Arete, as a goddess, was the personification of this idea, and was the daughter of Praxidike and the sister of Homonoia. Her contested Roman equivalent is '''Virtus'''. The only know tale of her has her and her counterpart Kakia, offering Herakles a SecretTestOfCharacter, which he of course passed.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Kakia'''

The counterpart to Arete, Kakia was the goddess of vice and, literally, "moral badness" (as in sin or crime). She's generally depicted as a vain, plump, and heavily made up woman who where's revealing clothing. Her job was to try to lead others to fall into evil.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* FanDisservice: if her description sounds appealing, have at it
* GodOfEvil: The god of vice and sin.
* {{Satan}}: Though predating the man in red himself, she is obviously meant to be the Greek version of him as an archetype of The Tempter.

'''Apate'''

The daughter of Nyx and Erebos, Apate was the Greek personification of deceit and was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box. Her Roman equivalent is '''Fraus''', from which we get the word ''fraud''. She had many siblings, including Nemesis and Keres. Her counterpart is '''Dolos''', the god of trickery, who was also a spirit released from pandora's box.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Geras'''

The god of old age, and the counterpart to Hebe. It was said that the the more geras a man had, the more kleos(fame) and arete (excellence and courage) he had. Generally considered a son of Nyx and Erebus, he was usually portrayed as a shriveled up old man. His Roman equivalent was '''Senectus'''. In vases, he's usually portrayed alongside Hercules, but the story that inspired these illustrations has been completely lost.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Oizys'''

Goddess of Misery, daughter of Nyx, and twin of the god Momos. Her Latin Counterpart is '''Miseria''', from which the word ''misery''is derived.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Moros'''

Brother of the Moirai (Fates) and son of Nyx, whom she conceived without any male help. He is the god of impending doom, and actively drives mortals to horrible, deadly fates.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Momus''' (Momos)

Yet, another child of Nyx, Momus was the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, and poets. [[InsaneTrollLogic Which basically means he was evil!]] He was, however, a twisted god of evil-spirited blame and unfair criticism, because apparently the Greeks didn't appreciate satire, or overly critical views. He notably mocked Hephaestus for not having made man with a doorway in his heart so that his thoughts may be seen. He also mocked Aphrodite for being talkative and having creaky sandals, and even mocked Zeus for being a violent bastard and unrepentant womanizer, and for having children as violent as he was. For his constant stream of critiques, he was booted out of Olympus (According the a fable by Aesop, he was actually booted out because he was jealous of the creations of three gods, and criticized them for it). For his wily ways, Momus has become quite popular (unsurprisingly) with writers.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* LampshadeHanging: did this beautifully with Zeus, and the other gods, calling out all their faults in a truly epic fashion
* TakeThat: was probably a take that to people like him, but really ended being a take that to the Greek gods themselves

'''The Keres'''

The Keres (singular Ker), were goddesses and sisters, the daughters of Nyx and Erebus (how many kids do these two have?) Their Latin counterpart was the '''Tenebrae''' (The Darkness) or '''Letum''' (Death). They were dark beings with gnashing teeth and claws, and a thirst for (human) blood. They favored violent death (as opposed to Thanatos who watched over peaceful death) and hovered over battlefields looking for wounded and dying men to devour and send to Hades.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* {{Psychopomp}}: One of the scariest out there

'''Achlys'''

One of the goddesses suffering from a MultipleChoicePast due to ContinuitySnarl, Achlys is either a primordial god that predates possibly even Khaos, or a daughter of Nyx, in which case she is sometimes portrayed as one of the Keres. Achlys is the goddess of the eternal night, aka the Mist of Death, which clouds the eyes of the dying. She is depicted as a pale, emaciated, and weeping woman, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* NightmareFace: Just read the description!

'''Ate''' (Aite)

The daughter of Zeus and Hera, she was the goddess of mischief, delusion, and folly. In Homer's Iliad, she is said to be Zeus's oldest daughter, and her mother is not mentioned. Hera used Ate to make Zeus swear that, on that very day, a mortal son of his would be born who would be a great ruler. Afterward, Hera sought to delay Hercules's birth and to birth prematurely Eurystheus, Hera's hero and direct counterpoint to Hercules. In anger, Zeus punished Ate by throwing her down to Earth and forbidding her from ever returning to Heaven or Mt. Olympus. Ate wanders the Earth now, making hell for everybody who meets her. Supposedly followed by the ''Litae'' (Prayers), who act as her healers, but cannot keep up with Ate, who runs too fast.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* WalkingTheEarth: Her punishment, though it is said she walks on the heads of men rather than the ground.

'''Zelus'''

Son of Pallas and Styx, brother to Nike, Kratos, and Bia. Had wings like his siblings and was an enforcer for Zeus that stood about his throne. He is the personification of dedication, emulation, eager rivalry, envy, jealousy, and zeal, and the word Zeal is derived from his name.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: While he and his siblings are not identified as angels, their description parallels that of angels as described in the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]].

'''Bia'''

The goddess and personification of force, Bia, had four other siblings (already mentioned dozens of times now, just see Zelus above) and was the daughter of Pallas and Styx. She and her siblings were Zeus's constant companions, as they, along with their mother, help Zeus fight the Titans. In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, she along with Hephaestus and Kratos bound the Titan Prometheus.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Same as Zelus above

'''Kratos'''

[[VideoGame/GodOfWar No, not that Kratos]]. This Kratos (the final child of Pallas and Styx's children) was the god and personification of strength and power, and, along with his siblings, was a winged enforcer of Zeus. Helped to bound Prometheus.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Same as his two preceding siblings

'''Agon'''

Greek god of competition and competitive games, in particular, the Olympic Games. Among the words we get from his name are agony, antagonism, protagonist, etc.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Interestingly, he was one of Competitive games, not some abstract concept
* SatelliteCharacter: Even more so than most Greek gods.

'''The Oneiroi'''

More than likely children of Nyx (though MultipleChoicePast strikes again here) these gods were the gods of dreams, and were close siblings to Hypnos. There were three (or just three prominent ones depending on the myth), and they were '''Morpheus''' ( a god who appeared in dreams as human figures), '''Phobetor''', also called Icelus, (a goddess who appeared in dreams as various animals and monsters, being the personification of nightmares), and Phantasos (a god who appeared in dreams as inanimate objects). Together, the siblings lived together in the Dream World, a realm located somewhere in the Underworld.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Penia'''

Called '''Penae''' in Latin, Penia was the Greek goddess of poverty and need, sometimes considered the mother of Eros.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Porus''' (Poros)

The Greek god of plenty and son of Metis, making him the brother of Athena. He was seduced by Penia at Aphrodite's birthday celebration while drunk, and from that sexual escapade, its possible that Eros was born. Porus is also a god in the Roman pantheon, the personification of abundance.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Amechania''' (Amekhania)

Sister of Penia and Greek goddess of helplessness. Often traveled around with her sisters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Ptocheia''' (Ptokheia)

Greek goddess of beggary, who was a sister of Amechania and Ptocheia. She ofter traveled around with her sisters

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Ploutos'''

Probably more well known by his Roman name '''Plutus'''. Ploutos was the ancient Greek god of wealth and was the son of Demeter and the Demigod Iasion. Has a complex relationship in the Roman pantheon with the god of the underworld, Plouton (Pluto), who is also a god of riches, leading to conflation. Was blinded by Zeus so that he could dispense of his riches without prejudice. He is also lame, but has wings, so he arrives slowly, but leaves quickly (sounds like there's significance to that). In the play ''Plutus'', his sight is restored, thus raising hell as he is now able to determine who is most deserving of wealth. From the root of his (and Plouton's) name, we get the words like plutocracy, plutonomics, plutolatry, and plutomania.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Euthenia'''

Greek goddess of prosperity, who had three sisters: Eucleia, Philophrosyne, and Eupheme. Sometimes regarded as a younger Charity, along with her sisters. her and here sisters' parents were Hephaestus and Aglaea

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Eucleia''' (Eukleia)

The Greek goddess of glory and good repute, sister to Euthenia. Often shown alongside Aphrodite as an attendant, where she represents the good repute of a young bride.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Philophrosyne'''

The Greek goddess of welcome, friendliness, and kindness.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* FlatCharacter: not much really to set her apart from the other goddesses, or even her own sisters

'''Eupheme'''

Greek goddess of words of good omen, praise, acclaims, shouts of triumph, and applause. Her opposite was Momus. Was the nurse of the Muses and the mother of Krotos with Pan, who became the constellation Sagittarius.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''The Anemoi'''

These beings were Greek wind gods who were each ascribed a Cardinal direction from their particular special winds came, and each of them as ascribed to certain seasons and weather patterns. They were variously represented as gusts of wind, winged men, and as horses kept in the stables of the storm god Aeolus. Astraeus and Eos were their parents. Their Roman equivalent was the '''Venti'''.

There are four main gods, each representing a cardinal direction, and four secondary gods representing the other directions. They were: '''Boreas''', Greek god of the cold north wind who brought Winter, known in Roman religion as '''Aquilo''' or '''Septentrio'''; '''Notus''', Greek god of the South wind who brought the storms of late summer and autumn, known to the Romans as '''Auster''', embodiment of the sirocco wind; '''Zephyrus''' (Zephyr) who was the Greek god of the West wind, the gentlest wind that brought light spring and early summer breezes, known in Rome as '''Favonius''', who held domain over plants and flowers; [[AndZoidberg and then there was '''Eurus''']], god of the unlucky east wind who was not associated with a season and know in Rome as '''Vulturnus''', a tribal river god who became god of the river Tiber.

The four minor gods were: '''Kaikias''', Greek god of the northeast wind, represented as a bearded man with a shield of hailstones, known as the "dark wind" whose Roman equal was '''Caecius'''; '''Apeliotes''' (Latin spelling, Apeliotus) was the Greek god of the southeast wind who brought good rain that helped farmers, and thus is usually depicted in farmers's attire carrying fruit, clean shaven, with curly hair and a pleasant disposition, and his Roman equivalent was '''Subsolanus''', who was sometimes considered the east wind by the Romans; '''Skiron''' (Skeiron), Greek god of the Northwest wind, depicted as bearded man tipping over a cauldron, representing the coming of winter, and his Roman equal was '''Caurus''' (Corus), the oldest Roman wind deities; '''Lips''' was the Greek god of the Southwest wind, usually depicted holding a ship's stern, whose Roman counterpart was '''Afer ventus''' (African wind), also called '''Africus''', because Africa is southwest of Italy, natch.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Epione'''

The Greek goddess of the soothing of pain, the wife of Asklepios, and the mother of some of his children.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Hygieia''' (Hygiea, Hygeia)

As her name more than amply implies, Hygieia is the goddess and personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation, the daughter of Asclepius and Epione. Of course, her name is obviously the root for hygiene and its associated words. While Asclepius was associated in healing illness and injury, Hygieia was associated with prevention of disease. in Rome, she was initially identified with the goddess of personal health '''Valetudo''', but she was eventually identified with the goddess of social welfare, '''Salus'''.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Iaso''' (Ieso)

Daughter of Asclepius and the goddess of recuperation from illness.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* FlatCharacter: Very little is know about Iaso in the grand scheme of things.

'''Aceso'''

The daughter of Asclepius and Epione, and goddess of the healing process.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification
* FlatCharacter: Even less is said about Aceso than Iaso.

'''Panacea''' (Panakeia)

Greek goddess of the Universal Remedy, daughter of Asclepius and Epione. Always carried a potion around with her that could heal the sick, and this idea was the beginning of the idea of the panacea in medicine (i.e. a substance that could cure all disease)

* AnthropomorphicPersonification

'''Thetis'''

An ancient sea goddess within the Greek pantheon, she is most well known for being the mother of the Greek hero, Achilles, whom she had with a mortal, Peleus. Is generally thought to have been a powerful goddess at one time, and it is even mentioned that she helped stop a rebellion against Zeus on Olympus, but is not mentioned much in Classical Greek works.

* PhysicalGod

'''Proteus'''

An early Greek sea god, sometimes called the god of "elusive sea change", reflecting the sea's constant changes. Like many gods and goddesses, he suffers from MultipleChoicePast, but he is a herdsman of Poseidon's seals. He has the ability to predict the future, but constantly changes his shape, so that only those who can catch him will get the prediction. From this we get the word protean. He lives on the island of Pharos off the coast of the Nile River Delta and his primary purpose was to be caught by other heroes and used to help them solve their problems.

* PhysicalGod

'''Amphitrite'''

Sea goddess most well known for being Poseidon's wife, in Rome she was conflated with Neptune's wife, '''Salacia''', goddess of saltwater. MultipleChoicePast strikes again: Some call her a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, thus making her an Oceanid and possibly a Titan, while other tales identify her as the daughter of Nereus and Doris, making her a Nereid, and still others say she is a personification of the sea itself. She and Poseidon had a son, named Triton, and at least one daughter, named Rhode and possibly another, named Benthesikyme. Though originally a very powerful, important goddess, she lost her importance to the Olympic pantheon.

* MultipleChoicePast
** AnthropomorphicPersonification: What some see her as
** PhysicalGod: what she is if an Oceanid

'''Rhode'''

Sometimes considered a sea nymph, Rhode was the goddess of the island of Rhodes and daughter of Poseidon. Consort of Helios, she considered the little island under her own protection.

* PhysicalGod

'''Triton'''

[[RunningGag No, not]] [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid that Triton]]. This Triton is the most famous son of Poseidon. A Greek god, he was a messenger of the sea, similar to how Hermes was a messenger of Olympus. One thing the Disney film got right is that Triton is usually represented as a merman, having a human's upper body and the tail-end of a fish, and he, like his father, carried a trident. He also carried a conch shell, which he blew like a horn to control the waves. had a daughter named Pallas (not the same Pallas mentioned farther up) and raised Athena as his own daughter. Athena would later accidentally kill Pallas. Triton would be the progenitor of an entire race similar to himself, called Tritons.

* PhysicalGod

'''Ceto''' (Crataeis, Trienus)

An early, powerful sea goddess, sometimes conflated with Hecate. Mother of a race of monsters with Phorcys, called the Phorcydes, which include Echidna, and (sometimes) The Gorgons (including Medusa), Ladon, Scylla, and The Graeae.

* PhysicalGod

'''The Graeae'''

Also called the Grey Witches, the Graeae were three sisters who shared one eye and one tooth amongst themselves. Though usually depicted as old, grey haired women, sometimes, storytellers would portray them as beautiful, and in some legends they were portrayed as being half-swan. They were apparently so old that they couldn't grasp the concept of human childhood. Their names were '''Deino''' (dread), '''Enyo''' (horror, not the same Enyo as the goddess of war), and '''Pemphredo''' (alarm). There is sometimes also a fourth named '''Persis''' (destroyer, slayer) or '''Perso'''. Perseus was able to get the women to tell him how to kill Medusa by stealing their one eye.

* PhysicalGod
* SadlyMythTaken: The Disney Hercules film gave their defining trait, sharing one eye, to the Moirai (Fates), causing confusion.

'''Phorcys''' (Phorkys)

God of the mysterious dangers of the deep, identified as a son of Gaia and Pontus or a son of Tethys and Oceanus. Married Ceto and had many "nice" children. Is depicted as a fish-taled merman, with crab claws for fore-legs and red-spiked skin.

* PhysicalGod
* MultipleChoicePast

'''Circe'''

A minor goddess of magic, sometimes called a witch, sorceress, enchantress, or nymph. MultipleChoicePast again, however, she is usually seen as a daughter of Helios and Perse, though some see her as the daughter of Hecate. Called "The loveliest of all immortals", she was known for turning people she didn't like into animals and having a truly massive knowledge of drugs and herbs. She lives in a large mansion, which she surrounded with feral predators she culled with her magic. She is most well know for her run in with Odysseus: She turned some of his crew into pigs and Odysseus set out to rescue them from her, using advice given by Athena as an aid. Following Athena's advice, Odysseus succeeded in freeing his men and gaining Circe's trust, and she helped him on his journey.

* PhysicalGod

'''Glaucus'''

A god of the sea, Glaucus was one of the very few mortals who attained immortality and godhood. It is believed that he comes to the rescue of fishermen and sailors caught in storms; this is because he was one himself. One day, when Glaucus was still mortal, he came across a weird herb that could resurrect dead fish, an tried eating it himself. The herb made him immortal, but at a steep cost: in place of his arms, he had fins, and his legs were replaced with a fish's tail (though there are versions of the story that say he just became a merman), forcing him to live in the sea forever. Though initially saddened by these turn of events, Oceanus and Tethys took Glaucus in as one of their own, teaching him the gift of prophecy and making him a god of the sea. Glaucus later fell in love with Scylla (who was a beautiful sea nymph at the time), and tried to marry her, but Scylla was repulsed by his physical appearance and ran away from him. Glaucus went to Circe for help in getting Scylla to fall for him, but Circe fell in love with ''him'' instead. Though Circe tried her best to win his heart, Glaucus was too in love with Scylla to go with her. Circe, in rage, poisoned the water where Scylla bathed, and turned her into the horrible monster we all know.

* PhysicalGod

'''Eurynome'''

Ancient Greek sea goddess, worshiped in the form of a mermaid, she was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and was the third wife of Zeus, with whom she had her daughters, the Charities. When Hephaestus was cast from Olympus by Hera, it was Eurynome and Thetis who caught him and nursed him back to health. This Eurynome is closely associated with the Titan Eurynome, wife of Ophion, the first ruler of Olympus.

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