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ADONIS
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6
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Beloved of aphrodite, the central figure of a widespread fertility cult, god of vegetation and re-birth.
APHRODITE
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6
5
Goddess of fertility, love and beauty. The sea foamed and boiled and she arose from the waters.
APOLLO
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4
9
God of light, god of prophecy and music, god of medicine, god of flocks and herds, the divine archer.
ARES
1
4
9
The greeks detested him. Quarrelsome, spiteful, unfaithful, he loves only hatred, strife and bloodshed.
ARTEMIS
2
1
11
Fertility goddess, patron of maidens, goddess of childbirth. Identified with the moon.
ASCLEPIUS
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1
11
God of medicine and healing, son of apollo. Originally a mortal.
ATHENE
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4
7
Goddess of wisdom, of architects and sculptors, of weavers, of oxen and horses. A goddess of war.
DEMETER
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2
5
Goddess of grain and the fruitful earth. An earth mother who was certainly one of the oldest gods.
ERIS
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1
15
The dark sister of eros. Goddess of chaos and discord, she loves confusion and conflict.
EROS
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7
God of love both heterosexual and homosexual, though his domain is not limited solely to sexual love.
GAIA
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3
13
Mother of all things. The earth itself, mother of the titans, the old gods.
HADES
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11
1
God of wealth and the underworld. He is stern but perfectly just, and rejects all pleas for mercy.
CHARON
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10
1
The ferryman who carries dead souls across the river Styx to Hades.
DIONYSIUS
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11
3
God of religious ecstasy and wine, accompanied always by satyrs and nymphs.
HEBE
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5
13
Goddess of youth and beauty. An eternally young girl, she helps the gods wash and dress themselves.
HECATE
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8
12
Goddess of black magic and evil ghosts. Often portrayed with three faces -  maiden, mother and crone.
CRONUS
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8
14
The chief of the titans, the race of giants who preceded the olympian gods.
HELIOS
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9
God of the sun, the charioteer who drives the sun across the sky.
HEPHAESTUS
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13
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The lame blacksmith god, patron of craftsman and metalworkers, god of fire.
HERA
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Wife of zeus, queen of the gods. Zeus is quite a randy god, and her domestic life with him is stormy.
HERMES
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Greek god of message, commerce, roads, theft, science, invention, herds and cunning. 
HYPNOS
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God of sleep. Brother of thanatos (death). Has power even over the gods.
IRIS
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Goddess of the rainbow. Like hermes, a messenger for the gods. The center of her cult was at Delos.
MOROS
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God of destiny. Dark, unknowable, all powerful. Even the gods are subject to him.
MORPHEUS
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God of dreams. His name is the root word of "morphine."
NEMESIS
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Goddess of destiny and inevitability, the repayment of sin and crime.
NIKE
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Goddess of victory. Generally portrayed as a winged maiden holding high a wreath of bay leaves.
OCEANUS
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Ancient god of the oceans, eventually displaced by Poseidon.
PAN
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The pasturer, "the feeder of flocks." God of herds, fertility and male sexuality.
THANATOS
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God of death. Sometimes portrayed as a winged spirit, at other times as a man robed in black.
URANUS
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Heaven personified. The son born to Gaia when she first emerged from chaos.
PERSEPHONE
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Maiden. Daughter of demeter, wife of hades. Hades kidnapped and took her to the underworld.
ZEUS
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Cloud gatherer. The ruler of the olympian gods, god of the sky, thunder, and lightening.
POSEIDON
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God of the sea and earthquakes. Horses and bulls are sacred to him.
wizard
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