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Eros (Cupid)

often represented as blindfolded because love

is often blind

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Anteros

the avenger of slighted love; the

one who opposes love

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Hebe

Goddess of Youth; daughter of Zeus &

Hera; wife of Hercules

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Iris

Goddess of the Rainbow and a messenger of the

gods (like Hermes)

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The Graces:

Aglaia (Splendor),

Euphrosyne (Mirth), and

Thalia (Good Cheer);

daughters of Zeus & Eurynome;

Aglaia married Hephaestus

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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

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The kingdom of the dead was ruled by one the great Olympians Hades / Pluto, and his queen, Persephone.

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Tartarus and Erebus are sometimes two divisions of the underworld.Tartarus

The deeper of the two, the prison of the sons of earth

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ErebusWhere the dead pass as soon as they die

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The path down to it leads to where Acheron, the river of the woe, pours into Cocytus, the river of lamentation.

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An aged boatman named Charon ferries the souls of the dead across the water to the farther bank to Tartarus

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On guard before the gate sits Cerberus, the three headed-dragon tailed dog who permits all spirits to enter, but none to return

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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

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Phlegethonthe river of fire

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Styx the river of unbreakable oath

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Lethe the river of forgetfulness

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The ErinyesThe place where they punish evildoers

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the protector of the sowersand the seed, as his wife Ops was a harvest helper

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Fauns - Roman Satyrs

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Quirinus the name if the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome

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Lucina- the goddess of childbirth

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Pomona and VertumnusPowers protecting orchards and gardens Pomona and Vertumnus

- protectors of orchards and gardens

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