Minor Gods Flashcards
Achelous
The river god of the eponymous river
Adonis
God of beauty and desire
Adrestia
Deity of revolt and equilibrium between good and evil
Agathodaemon
Spirit of vineyards and fields, providing luck, health and wisdom
Aglaea
Represents beauty, splendour and glory
Algea
Personifications of sorrow
Lype, personification of pain, grief and distress
Ania, personification of distress, sorrow and boredom
Achus, personification of anguish
Alpheus
River god of the eponymous river
Anteros
Represents requited love and punishing those who were not interested in love or not returning other people’s love
Aristaeus
Protector and creator of various arts
Asopus
the name given to four different river gods that protected four respective rivers in Greece
Astraea
Goddess of innocence
Ate
Goddess of mischief and ruin
Atropos
One of the three fates
Decided how each human died, and held the shears used to cut the thread of life
Caerus
Personification of opportunities and favourable moments
Calypso
a nymph who captured Odysseus for many years, before he finally managed to escape. She lived on the mythical island of Ogygia.
Castalia
A nymph that was transformed into a fountain
Cephissus
A river god
Clotho
One of the three fates
Spun the thread of life
Decided when a person would be born or killed or other important decisions
Clytie
An oceanid
Daphne
A naiad nymph
Dike
Goddess of justice and moral order
Dysnomia
Spirit of lawlessness
Echo
A mountain nymph. Cursed to only be able to repeat the last words that another person just said
Eirene
Personification of peace