Gaia / Gaea
Uranus / Ouranos
Zeus
Typhoeus / Typhon
The Gorgons, three sister witches; best known is Medusa
Hecate, the death-giving aspect of the Goddess
Aphrodite (Roman Venus)
Artemis (Roman Diana)
Demeter (Roman Ceres)
Persephone (Kore)
Iphigeneia
Antigone
Hephaistos
Ares (kids w/ Aph: Phobos (fear), Deimos (panic), Harmonia,
Eros/Cupid)
Hermes (kids w/ Aph: Hermaphroditus, Priapus)
Anchises (kid w/ Aph: Aeneas)
Adonis, Aphrodite's lover
Actaeon
Callisto
Apollo
Paian, a god whose name appears at Knossos in the Late Bronze
period
Themis, the goddess of eternal law
Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis
Python, the female dragon guardian of Gaia's sanctuary at Delphi,
the foster mother of Typhon
Daphne, a mountain nymph transformed into a bay or laurel tree
Cyparissus, a young man transformed into a cyprus
Hyacinthus, Apollo's lover killed by his discus and transformed
into a flower
Coronis, the mother of Asclepius
Chiron, the wisest of centaurs
Asclepius, son of Coronis and Apollo, the first physician
Marsyas
Niobe
Cassandra
PLACES MENTIONED:
Paphos, Cyprus
Lemnos
Ephesus
Brauron
Corinth
Delos visit
the sanctuary
Delphi visit
the sanctuary
Mt. Parnassos
Pythia, the priestess at the Oracle at Delphi
Pythian Games
Lyre
Sibyl
Omphalos
Castalian Spring
Stoa of the Athenians
Siphnian Treasury
Naxian Sphinx
Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.)
Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.)
Themistocles, Athens's leader during the Persian wars
Alcmeonids of Athens