THE GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES (AND THEIR ASSISTANTS) YOU WILL COME ACROSS

THE GREEK GODS

AND GODDESSES

(AND THEIR ASSISTANTS)

YOU WILL COME ACROSS

Moirai (The Fates)

These three sisters are responsible for the threads of humanlife.

Clotho – Spins the thread and decides when a person is born and when a god or mortal is to be saved or put todeath.

Lachesis – The measurer of the thread, who decides how much time is allowed for each being and is sometimes associated withdestiny.

Atropos – Also known as Aisa, chooses the manner of death by cutting the threads. She is also the eldest of the Fates and often called ‘the inflexibleone’.

Zeus

God of Gods, King, Father…

This god has a thing for thunder and lightning and has produced a fair number ofchildren.

Hera

Goddess of women, marriage, family andchildbirth.

Also known as the Queen of Heaven, Zeus’ jealous wife (and technically hissister).

Prometheus

Titan God offire.

A good friend of Zeus, he created humanity from clay for his friend. He is known amongst the other gods as a champion of humankind and for his gift – foresight. At the time of our story he has been serving a 2,000-year solitude sentence for offering the humans fire, though this will not be his greatestcrime.

Athena

Goddess of wisdom andwar.

Known for her strategy and discipline, Athena is the Goddess that was born out of her father Zeus’ head after he swallowed her mother, while she was pregnant, whole. You could say that, quite literally, makes her the definition of ‘her father’sdaughter’.

Aphrodite

Goddess of love, beauty, passion, andprocreation.

Technically born of Uranus’ (Zeus’ grandfather) genitals and seafoam, Aphrodite should be considered Zeus’ aunt. However, to keep Zeus in his seat of power, and with her father dead, she was adopted as his ‘daughter’. It’s left her with a slight complex to prove herself right over others.

Artemis

Goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the moon, andchastity.

Her twin brother is Apollo, who we don’t meet here, and she is also the half sister of Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Dionysus. Due to events prior to this story, Artemis was responsible for the death of Adonis (Aphrodite’s favourite mortal lover or adopted son … entirely possibly both) and so the two of them aren’t on best terms in thisbook.

Ares

God of war, violence, male virility, and defender of theweak.

Lover (and technically great nephew or adopted stepbrother) of Aphrodite. Half brother of Athena, Artemis, Hephaestus, Dionysus, andHermes.

Phobos

The son of Aphrodite and Ares, Phobos is the personification of fear andpanic.

Hephaestus

God of fire and ofcraftsmen.

Son of Zeus and Hera, husband of Aphrodite. A hunchbacked, ungrateful metalworker who no one in the family particularlylikes.

Hermes

The herald and messenger of thegods.

A wonderful mediator, guide, and protector. Also a half brother to Athena, Aphrodite (and lover), Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus … you get thepicture.

Tyche

Goddess of fortune andchance.

Daughter of Aphrodite and Hermes, friend of Prometheus. This Goddess has repeatedly denied Dionysus’ flirtations in the past and why this is important will become clear in thistale.

Dionysus

God of the grape-harvest, fertility and divinemadness.

Half brother along with all the rest of Zeus’ children, with a bitter crush onTyche.

Others you may need to know …

Lysia (Lysimache I)

The high priestess of Goddess Athena Polias

Chief of the lesser officials, she is responsible for supervising the protective city deity of AncientAthens.

Circe

Witch, enchantress, alchemist, and minorgoddess.

Renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs and transformational skills in the Greekworld.

Gaia

The personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities, aka MotherEarth.

Also, technically, Zeus’ grandmother.

Hestia

Goddess of hearth andhome.

Demeter

Goddess of the harvest, mother ofPersephone.

Persephone

Goddess of agriculture, daughter of Demeter, wife of Hades.

She spends her time split between the Underworld (autumn and winter) and the Earth (spring andsummer).

Hades

God of the Underworld and brother ofZeus.

Styx

The river of the underworld. The gods swear by her water as their most bindingoath.

Pygmalion

A sculptor who had sworn off love, who then fell in love with his statue.

Eros

God of lust and primal sexual desire. Son of Aphrodite and Ares.

Adephagia

Goddess ofgluttony.

Hybris

Spirit of insolence, violence, and outrageousbehaviour.

Nemesis

The goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris, arrogance before thegods.

Plutus

God ofwealth.

Aergia

The personification of sloth, idleness, indolence, andlaziness.

Phthonos

The personification of jealousy andenvy.

Lyssa

The spirit of mad rage, frenzy, and rabies inanimals.

Dike

Goddess of justice and spirit of fairjudgement.

Iris

The personification of the rainbow and another messenger of thegods.

Chronos

Son of Uranus (Sky Father) and Gaia, King of the Titans, and the God oftime.