1. THE DEITIES OF EARTH
Supreme Deities
Demeter
Dionysus

2. DEMETER (CERES) Goddess of the Corn and Grains
The earth goddess who taught mankind the art of sowing seeds and ploughing
When her child Persephone was abducted she wandered the earth, during which time the earth gave no grains
Only in summer Persephone would be with her (1/3 of the year) so she would let things grow

3. DIONYSUS (BACCHUS) God of Wine, Agriculture Patron of Drama
Son of Zeus & Semele
Born from Zeus’s thigh
Name meaning twice-born
Wine: Cheer & Sadness
Comedy & Tragedy

4. THE DEITIES OF EARTH Lesser Deities Pan The Centaurs Leda The Gorgons
The Satyrs The Graiae
Aeolus The Sirens

5. PAN God of Shepherds and Flocks Son of Hermes
A fertility god representing male sexuality
Always pursued the nymphs but was rejected; hairy body, goat’s horns, goat’s hoof
Player of the reed pipe
The noises he made in the forest at night put travellers in “panic”

6. LEDA Wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta
Mother of mortal Castor and Clytemnestra (Agamemnon’s wife), and immortal (from Zeus) Pollux and Helen of Troy
Zeus visited Leda in the form of a swan

7. THE SATYRS Deities of the woods and mountains
Goat-men, upper part human, lower part goat
They accompany Dionysus
Dance, music, drinking and chasing the nymphs

8. AEOLUS King of the Winds Viceroy of the Gods
Four chief winds
BOREAS North Wind
ZEPHYR West Wind
NOTUS South Wind
EURUS East Wind
Viceroy of the Gods
Son of Hellen, the father of Greek nations
Greece = Hellas

9. THE CENTAURS Half human, half horse creatures Followers of Dionysus
Mostly savage creatures
Notorious for drunkenness and abducting helpless young maidens
Only good centaur was the kind and wise Chiron, the teacher of Achilles

10. THE GORGONS
Dragon-like female creatures with wings, hair of living snakes, hands made of brass
Three gorgons, Medusa is the only mortal one
Their look turned men into stone (petrification)
They lived in the ultimate west and guarded the entrance to the underworld

11. THE GRAIAE Three old women with gray hair Sisters of the Gorgons
Three of them share one eye and one tooth
Lived on the farther bank of the Ocean

12. THE SIRENS Creatures with the head of a female and the body of a bird
They lived on an island
With their enchanting song they lured sailors to death
Their charm of their song was irresistible
Odysseus listened to their song