Mythology

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Based on Edith Hamilton's Compilation


 
  
Created Dec 7, 2006
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Dionysus
 
God of Wine
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Demeter
 
God of Harvest/Corn/Rice/Fertility
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Persephone
 
Daughter of Demeter, kidnapped by Hades and made Queen of Underworld.
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Hades
 
King of Underworld, kidnapped Persephone.
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Semele
 
Dionysus' mother
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Semele
 
Mother of Dionysus (Zeus was father)
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Ariadne
 
Princess abandoned by a prince whom Dionysus fell in love with.
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(Two Great Gods of Earth) Pentheus
 
King of Thebes who refused Dionysus' claim to throne.
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Chaos
 
State of the universe before it was created.
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Night
 
Child of Chaos
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Erebus
 
"Unfathomable depth of where death dwells" Hades?
12
[Creation (World and Mankind)] Love
 
Created from Darkness and Death.
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Light and Day
 
Created by Love
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Earth
 
Popped up from literally no where.
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Gaea
 
AKA Earth
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Ouranos
 
AKA Father Heaven
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Giants, Cyclops, Titan's
 
First beings of the Earth.
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Cronus
 
Saturn, Ruler of the Universe but overthrown by Zeus
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Zeus
 
Overthrown Cronus and became next ruler of Universe
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Prometheus
 
Son of the TItan Iapetus and took sides with Zeus
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[Creation (World and Mankind)] Atlas
 
Prometheus' brother who was condemned to bear on his back the wait of the world
22
[Creation (World and Mankind)] Typhon
 
Terrible creature after the war between Gods and Titans who sprung from the earth.
23
[Creation (World and Mankind)]Epimetheus
 
Brother of Prometheus, both were assigned to shape the mortal aspects of the universe. Unwittingly...
24
[Creation (World and Mankind)] Pandora
 
Silly person who opened the box that flew out many evils and the last thing "Hope"
25
[Creation (World and Mankind)] Hermes
 
Prometheus, for his anti-God acts and the fact he was withholding a secret from Zeus, was tied...
26
(Earliest Heroes) Io
 
Maiden of which Zeus fell in love with. Complications with Hera made her into a heifer with...
27
(Earliest Heroes) Europa
 
Maiden whom Zeus fell in love with. Zeus turned into a bull and took her Crete
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(Earlies Heroes) Polyphemus
 
Cyclops, son of Posseidon, who got stabbed in the eye by Odysseus when he tried to capture...
29
(Earliest Heroes) Oddyseus
 
Hero (Trojan War) who was trapped by Polyphemus and escaped by stabbing him and using a furry...
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(Earliest Heroes) Galatea
 
Polyphemus' eye candy. He loved her but she turned to love a prince who was killed by Polyphemus...
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(Earliest Heroes) Doris
 
Sister nymph of Galatea who liked the one eyed dude but never admitted to him.
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(Earliest Heroes) Narcissus
 
Beautiful man who resented love and fell prey to his stupidity. His body wasn't found but instead...
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(Earliest Heroes) Echo
 
Nymph cursed upon to only speak what has been said to her.
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(Cupid and Psyche) Cupid
 
Son of Aphrodite, fell in love with Psyche.
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(Cupid and Psyche) Psyche
 
Fairest woman of all, so fair that many stopped worshipping Venus (Aphrodite) and therefore...
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(Cupid and Psyche) Aphrodite
 
Extremely jealous of Psyche, arranged her to be married to a monster, but her son fell in love...
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(Cupid and Psyche) Psyche's sisters
 
Told Psyche her mysterious husband was a serpent and wished to eat her. Which caused Psyche...
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[The House of Atreus] The house of Atreus included...
 
Agamemnon (led Greeks to Troy) Clytemnestra (wife) Iphigenia, Orestes and Electra (children)

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