The Lesser Gods Name of God Title Additional Information Athene The Spoiler Aurora Goddess of the Dawn fingers were the color of roses Cheiron The Centaur Circe The Dread Goddess Dawn The Goddess Eos Dione A mother to Aphrodite Eileithyia Goddess of Childbirth Enyo One of the Gray Sisters Eos Goddess of the Dawn Eurynome Mother of The Graces Fates All will kneel before them Gorgon Snake-Headed Medusa Graces May They Bless You Hebe Goddess of Youth Wife of Herakles Helios The Sun Herakles Penultimate Hero Hecate Goddess of the Underworld Hermes Messenger of the Gods Hestia Goddess of the Hearth Hours Sisters of the Fates Hyperion The Titan, Father of Dawn Hypnos Sleep, Brother of Thanatos Io The Heifer Maiden Iris The Swift Footed Messenger personification of the rainbow Kalypso The Queenly Nympth Kronos Lord of the Titans Leto Mother of Apollo and Artemis Medusa The Gorgon Muses The Nine Sisters of arts and sciences Nereids Daughters of Nereus Nike Odysseus A Very Resourceful Traveler Pan The God of Shepherds half goat and half man Persephone Wife of Hades Prometheus The Rebel God Psyche Personification of the soul Rheia Mother of the Olympians wife and sister of Cronus Rivers in The Iliad Skylla The Beast with Six Heads Styx The Oath River Thanatos The God of Death Thetis Mother of Achilleus Tyche Goddess of Chance Winds Children of the Dawn

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Family Tree

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Part 1

Chaos | Gaea (earth)______Uranos (sky and the mountains) | | | | Six Titans(One was Cronus)____Six Titanesses(One was Rhea) Coeus - father of Leto Phoebe - The bright one, mother of Leto Oceanus - Personification of the ocean Tethys - Wife of Oceanus, mother of the oceanids Crius Three Hyperion - The father of the sun, the moon, and the dawn. Hecatonchires Iapetus - father of Atlas (monsters with 100 Thea hands and 50 Themis - Personification of justice Three heads) Memnosyne - Personification of memory Cyclopes Atlas - holds the sky on his shoulders Briarus Leto - mother of Apollo and Artemis Cottus Perses Gyes Asterie Prometheus - Savior of mankind

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Cronus - Father time of the Greeks Rhea - Mother of the gods, identified with Cybele | | | | | |

Hestia Demeter Hera Hades Poseidon Zeus

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Family Tree - Zeus

Hera______Zeus | | Hephaestus Ares

Family Tree - Zeus

Eurynome, The Graces(charities) ______Zeus | Aglaia Euphrosyne Thalia

Family Tree - Zeus

Themis______Zeus | Horae (Seasons):

 Eirene (Peace)  Eunomia (Order)  Dike (Justice)

Moerae (Fates), Moirai

 Clotho - spinner  Lachesis - apportioner  Atropos - inflexible (cutter)

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Muses: (Presided over the arts and sciences and inspired those who excelled in these pursuits)

 Calliope  Clio  Erato  Euterpe  Melpomene  Polhymnia  Terpsichore  Thalia  Urania

Charities: (Personifications of Grace and Beauty)

 Kleta  Phaenna  Auxo  Hegemone

Nymphs:

 Alseides  Amalthea  Arethusa  Calisto  Calypso - The concealer  Daphne  Echo - Nymph who only repeats.  Liriope  Napaeae  Oenone  Oreithyia  Orestiads  Salamacis  Syrinx

Hesperides (guarders of the golden apples of Hera)

 Aegle  Erytheia  Hestia  Arethusa  Hesperia

Monsters

 Centaur  Sirens  Sphinx  Gorgons  Scylla, many headed sea monster  Charybdis, whirlpool  Chimera  Minotaur – lower-half man, upper-half bull  Python - very large snake  Satyr  Triton

The Furies (three ladies who pursued evil doers and sinners - They were persistent but just.)

 Tisiphone  Megaera  Alecto

The Gorgons (Three ladies with snakes as hair and eyes that could turn people to stone.)

 Medusa  Sthenno  Euryale

Sirens

 Parthenope  Teles, Raidne, Molpe, and Thelxiope  Parthenope, Leucosia, and Ligia  Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepia

Wind gods:

 Aeolus - King of the Winds  Boreas - North Wind  Zephyr - West Wind  Notus - South Wind  Eurus - East Wind