Eros (Cupid)
often represented as blindfolded because love
is often blind
Anteros
the avenger of slighted love; the
one who opposes love
Hebe
Goddess of Youth; daughter of Zeus &
Hera; wife of Hercules
Iris
Goddess of the Rainbow and a messenger of the
gods (like Hermes)
The Graces:
Aglaia (Splendor),
Euphrosyne (Mirth), and
Thalia (Good Cheer);
daughters of Zeus & Eurynome;
Aglaia married Hephaestus
Muses—9 of them;
Clio (history), Urania (astronomy), Melpomene (tragedy),
Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (dance), Calliope (epic poetry),
Erato (love-poetry), Polyhymnia (songs to the gods), and
Euterpe (lyric poetry); daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne
The kingdom of the dead was ruled by one the great Olympians Hades / Pluto, and his queen, Persephone.
Tartarus and Erebus are sometimes two divisions of the underworld.Tartarus
The deeper of the two, the prison of the sons of earth
ErebusWhere the dead pass as soon as they die
The path down to it leads to where Acheron, the river of the woe, pours into Cocytus, the river of lamentation.
An aged boatman named Charon ferries the souls of the dead across the water to the farther bank to Tartarus
On guard before the gate sits Cerberus, the three headed-dragon tailed dog who permits all spirits to enter, but none to return
On his arrival each one is brought before three judges:Rhadamanthus
MinosAeacus
Who pass sentences and send the wicked to everlasting torment and the good to a place of blessedness called The Elysian Fields
Phlegethonthe river of fire
Styx the river of unbreakable oath
Lethe the river of forgetfulness
The ErinyesThe place where they punish evildoers
the protector of the sowersand the seed, as his wife Ops was a harvest helper
Fauns - Roman Satyrs
Quirinus the name if the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome
Lucina- the goddess of childbirth
Pomona and VertumnusPowers protecting orchards and gardens Pomona and Vertumnus
- protectors of orchards and gardens