Chapters 1 8 Eros God of love Aphrodites

Chapters 1 -8

� Eros – God of love; Aphrodite’s son � Hebe – Marries Hercules; daughter of Zeus and Hera � Iris – rainbow goddess; messenger goddess � Graces – incarnation of beauty and grace; daughters of Zeus and Eurynome � Muses – 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne

� Naiads – water nymphs � Ocean – Lord of the great river encircling the Earth � Neptune – Roman name of Poseidon � Pontus – the Deep Sea � Nereus – honest Old Man of Sea; father of Nereids � Triton – trumpeter of the sea; uses a shell � Proteus – Poseidon’s son; shape changing

� Pluto – Roman god of underworld � Persephone – Roman goddess of underworld � Elysian Fields – place of blessedness where the good go � Erebus – � Charon – aged boatman ferries souls across river � Cerberus – 3 headed dog � Styx – river by which the gods swear

� Lethe – river of forgetfulness � Furies – punish evildoers and sinners on earth or in the underworld � Sleep and Death – brothers who dwell in the underworld

� Ceres – Roman name for Demeter, god of corn � Bacchus – Roman god of wine � Pan – Hermes’ son; noisy, ugly goat-god � Silenus –fat jovial man, tutor, follower of wine god � Castor and Pollux – sons of Leda, part of Argonaut crew � Centaurs – part men, part horse � Chiron – centaur who dies for Prometheus

� Satyrs – like Pan, were goat men from wild places � Dryads – nymphs of the trees � Boreas, Sephyr, Notus, Eurus – North, South, East and West winds � Gorgons – dragon-like creatures, turned men to stone � Graiae – 3 gray women with one eye between them � Sirens – lived on island; enchanted sailors � Fates – 3 of them; spinner, lot dispenser, and cutter