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The following is a list of gods, goddesses and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. The list does not include creatures; for these, see List of Greek mythological creatures. To specify, Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, and the nature and origin of the world. When we say ancient Greece, we mean ancient! Thisperiod lasted from around 800 BCE until about 600 AD. Theirmythology was a part of the religion in ancient Greece.
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Greek mythology, body of stories concerning the gods, heroes, and rituals of the ancient Greeks. That the myths contained a considerable element of fiction was recognized by the more critical Greeks, such as the philosopher Plato in the 5th–4th century bce. In general, however, in the popular piety of the Greeks, the myths were viewed as true accounts. Greek mythology has subsequently had extensive influence on the arts and literature of Western civilization, which fell heir to much of Greek culture.
Who are some of the major figures of Greek mythology?
Greek myth takes many forms, from religious myths of origin to folktales and legends of heroes. In terms of gods, the Greek pantheon consists of 12 deities who were said to reside at Mount Olympus: Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Poseidon. (This list sometimes also includes Hades or Hestia). Other major figures of Greek myth include the heroes Odysseus, Orpheus, and Heracles; the Titans; and the nine Muses.
What are some major works in Greek mythology?
Some of the most important and well-known works of Greek mythology are the epic poems of Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey. In these, many of the characteristics of the Olympian gods and notable heroes are outlined. The fullest and most important source of myths about the origin of the gods is the Theogony of Hesiod, which also includes folktales and etiological myths. Hesiod also contributed Works and Days, an epic poem about the agricultural arts which includes elements of myth.
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When did Greek mythology start?
It is difficult to know when Greek mythology started, as it is believed to have stemmed from centuries of oral tradition. It is likely that Greek myths evolved from stories told in the Minoan civilization of Crete, which flourished from about 3000 to 1100 BCE.
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Although people of all countries, eras, and stages of civilization have developed myths that explain the existence and workings of natural phenomena, recount the deeds of gods or heroes, or seek to justify social or political institutions, the myths of the Greeks have remained unrivaled in the Western world as sources of imaginative and appealing ideas. Poets and artists from ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from Greek mythology and have discovered contemporary significance and relevance in Classical mythological themes.
Sources of myths: literary and archaeological
The Homeric poems: the Iliad and the Odyssey
The 5th-century-bce Greek historian Herodotus remarked that Homer and Hesiod gave to the Olympian gods their familiar characteristics. Few today would accept this literally. In the first book of the Iliad, the son of Zeus and Leto (Apollo, line 9) is as instantly identifiable to the Greek reader by his patronymic as are the sons of Atreus (Agamemnon and Menelaus, line 16). In both cases, the audience is expected to have knowledge of the myths that preceded their literary rendering. Little is known to suggest that the Greeks treated Homer, or any other source of Greek myths, as mere entertainment, whereas there are prominent Greeks from Pindar to the later Stoa for whom myths, and those from Homer in particular, are so serious as to warrant bowdlerization or allegorization.
The works of Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days
The fullest and most important source of myths about the origin of the gods is the Theogony of Hesiod (c. 700 bce). The elaborate genealogies mentioned above are accompanied by folktales and etiological myths. The Works and Days shares some of these in the context of a farmer’s calendar and an extensive harangue on the subject of justice addressed to Hesiod’s possibly fictitious brother Perses. The orthodox view treats the two poems as quite different in theme and treats the Works and Days as a theodicy (a natural theology). It is possible, however, to treat the two poems as a diptych, each part dependent on the other. The Theogony declares the identities and alliances of the gods, while the Works and Days gives advice on the best way to succeed in a dangerous world, and Hesiod urges that the most reliable—though by no means certain—way is to be just.
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Other literary works
Fragmentary post-Homeric epics of varying date and authorship filled the gaps in the accounts of the Trojan War recorded in the Iliad and Odyssey; the so-called Homeric Hymns (shorter surviving poems) are the source of several important religious myths. Many of the lyric poets preserved various myths, but the odes of Pindar of Thebes (flourished 6th–5th century bce) are particularly rich in myth and legend. The works of the three tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, all of the 5th century bce—are remarkable for the variety of the traditions they preserve.
In Hellenistic times (323–30 bce) Callimachus, a 3rd-century-bce poet and scholar in Alexandria, recorded many obscure myths; his contemporary, the mythographer Euhemerus, suggested that the gods were originally human, a view known as Euhemerism. Apollonius of Rhodes, another scholar of the 3rd century bce, preserved the fullest account of the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece.
In the period of the Roman Empire, the Geography of Strabo (1st century bce), the Library of the pseudo-Apollodorus (attributed to a 2nd-century-ce scholar), the antiquarian writings of the Greek biographer Plutarch, and the works of Pausanias, a 2nd-century-ce historian, as well as the Latin Genealogies of Hyginus, a 2nd-century-ce mythographer, have provided valuable sources in Latin of later Greek mythology.
Archaeological discoveries
The discovery of the Mycenaean civilization by Heinrich Schliemann, a 19th-century German amateur archaeologist, and the discovery of the Minoan civilization in Crete (from which the Mycenaean ultimately derived) by Sir Arthur Evans, a 20th-century English archaeologist, are essential to the 21st-century understanding of the development of myth and ritual in the Greek world. Such discoveries illuminated aspects of Minoan culture from about 2200 to 1450 bce and Mycenaean culture from about 1600 to 1200 bce; those eras were followed by a Dark Age that lasted until about 800 bce. Unfortunately, the evidence about myth and ritual at Mycenaean and Minoan sites is entirely monumental, because the Linear B script (an ancient form of Greek found in both Crete and Greece) was mainly used to record inventories.
Geometric designs on pottery of the 8th century bce depict scenes from the Trojan cycle, as well as the adventures of Heracles. The extreme formality of the style, however, renders much of the identification difficult, and there is no inscriptional evidence accompanying the designs to assist scholars in identification and interpretation. In the succeeding Archaic (c. 750–c. 500 bce), Classical (c. 480–323 bce), and Hellenistic periods, Homeric and various other mythological scenes appear to supplement the existing literary evidence.
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The Theoi Classical Texts Library is a collection of translations of works of ancient Greek and Roman literature. The theme of the library is classical mythology and so the selection consists primarily of ancient poetry, drama and prose accounts of myth.
The Theoi Greek Mythology Website (www.theoi.com) was compiled several years before the creation of this online library and in many cases quotes from different translations. It also draws on a considerably wider selection of classical literature. For more information on that site's content please refer to the Theoi Greek Mythology Site Bibliography.
GREEK, ARCHAIC 800 B.C. - 500 B.C.
EPIC CYCLE, FRAGMENTS Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
HESIOD, CATALOGUES OF WOMEN Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
HESIOD, MISCELLANY FRAGMENTS Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
HESIOD, SHIELD OF HERACLES Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
HESIOD, THEOGONY Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
HESIOD, WORKS AND DAYS Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
HOMER, ILIAD Translated by A. T. Murray (1924 Loeb)
HOMER, ODYSSEY Translated by A. T. Murray (1919 Loeb)
HOMERIC HYMNS Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White (1914 Loeb)
LYRA GRAECA 1 Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1922 Loeb) (partial)
GREEK, CLASSICAL 500 B.C. - 300 B.C.
AESCHYLUS, AGAMEMNON Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
AESCHYLUS, EUMENIDES Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
AESCHYLUS, LIBATION BEARERS Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
AESCHYLUS, PROMETHEUS BOUND Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
AESCHYLUS, SEVEN AGAINST THEBES Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
AESCHYLUS, SUPPLIANT WOMEN Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
AESCHYLUS, FRAGMENTS Translated by Herbert Weir Smyth (1926 Loeb)
GREEK, HELLENISTIC 300 B.C. - 100 B.C.
ANONYMOUS, MEGARA & OTHERS Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912 Loeb)
APOLLODORUS, THE LIBRARY Translated by Sir J. G. Frazer (1921 Loeb)
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS, ARGONAUTICA Translated by R. C. Seaton (1912 Loeb)
ARATUS, PHAENOMENA Translated by G. R. Mair (1921 Loeb)
BION, POEMS Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912 Loeb)
CALLIMACHUS, HYMNS Translated by A. W. Mair (1921 Loeb)
ERATOSTHENES, CATASTERISMOI Not available online. The only English translation of this work is by Theony Condos (1997).
LYCOPHRON, ALEXANDRA Translated by A. W. Mair (1921 Loeb)
MOSCHUS, POEMS Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912 Loeb)
ORPHIC HYMNS Translated by Thomas Taylor (1792)
PATTERN POEMS Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912 Loeb)
THEOCRITUS, IDYLLS Translated by J. M. Edmonds (1912 Loeb)
GREEK, IMPERIAL ROMAN 100 B.C. - 200 A.D.
ANTONINUS LIBERALIS, METAMORPHOSES Not available online. The only English translation of this work is by Francis Celoria (1992).
CLEMENT, EXHORTATION TO GREEKS BKS 2 - 5 Translated by G. W. Butterworth (1919 Loeb)
CLEMENT, RECOGNITIONS BK 10.16 - 41 Translated by Rev. Thomas Smith (1867)
CONON, NARRATIONS There is currently no English translation available for this collection of mythological tales.
DIODORUS SICULUS, LIBRARY OF HISTORY BKS 4 - 6 Translated by C. H. Oldfather (1935 Loeb)
LUCIAN, DIALOGUES OF THE GODS Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler (1905)
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LUCIAN, DIALOGUES OF THE SEA GODS Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler (1905)
LUCIAN, DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler (1905)
PARTHENIUS, LOVE ROMANCES Translated by S. Gaselee (1916 Loeb)
PAUSANIAS, DESCRIPTION OF GREECE Translated by W. H. S. Jones (1918 Loeb)
PLUTARCH, LIFE OF THESEUS Translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1914 Loeb)
PLUTARCH, GREEK & ROMAN PARALLEL STORIES Translated by F. C. Babbitt (1936 Loeb)
GREEK, LATE ROMAN 200 A.D. - 500 A.D.
CALLISTRATUS, DESCRIPTIONS Translated by Arthur Fairbanks (1931 Loeb)
COLLUTHUS, RAPE OF HELEN Translated by A. W. Mair (1928 Loeb)
NONNUS, DIONYSIACA BKS 1 - 14 Translated by W. H. D. Rouse (1940 Loeb)
ORPHIC ARGONAUTICA Not available online. The only English translation of this work is by Jason Colavito (2011).
PHILOSTRATUS THE ATHENIAN, ON HEROES Not available online. The only English translation of this work is by Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean (2002).
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PHILOSTRATUS THE ELDER, IMAGINES Translated by Arthur Fairbanks (1931 Loeb)
PHILOSTRATUS THE YOUNGER, IMAGINES Translated by Arthur Fairbanks (1931 Loeb)
PSEUDO-PLUTARCH, ON RIVERS Available online. The only English translation of this work is byThomas M. Banchich (pdf file) (2010).
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS, FALL OF TROY Translated by A. S. Way (1913 Loeb)
TRYPHIODORUS, TAKING OF ILIOS Translated by A. W. Mair (1928 Loeb)
GREEK, BYZANTINE 1100 A.D. - 1200 A.D.
TZETZES, CHILIADES Translated by Ana Untila, Gary Berkowitz, Konstantinos Ramiotis, Vasiliki Dogani, Jonathan Alexander, Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman, Nikolaos Giallousis (2014-2016)
LATIN, IMPERIAL ROMAN 100 B.C. - 200 A.D.
HYGINUS, ASTRONOMICA Translated by Mary Grant (1960)
HYGINUS, FABULAE Translated by Mary Grant (1960)
OVID, FASTI Translated by James G. Frazer (1931 Loeb)
OVID, HEROIDES Translated by Grant Showerman (1931 Loeb)
OVID, METAMORPHOSES Translated by Brookes More (1922)
SENECA, AGAMEMNON Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, HERCULES FURENS Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, HERCULES OETAEUS Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, MEDEA Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, OEDIPUS Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, PHAEDRA Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, PHOENISSAE Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
SENECA, THYESTES Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
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SENECA, TROADES Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1917 Loeb)
STATIUS, ACHILLEID Translated by J. H. Mozley (1928 Loeb)
STATIUS, THEBAID Translated by J. H. Mozley (1928 Loeb)
VALERIUS FLACCUS, ARGONAUTICA Translated by J. H. Mozley (1928 Loeb)
VIRGIL, AENEID BKS 1 - 6 Translated by H. R. Fairclough (1916 Loeb)
VIRGIL, ECLOGUES Translated by H. R. Fairclough (1916 Loeb)
VIRGIL, GEORGICS Translated by H. R. Fairclough (1916 Loeb)
LATIN, LATE ROMAN 200 A.D. - 500 A.D.
CLAUDIAN, GIGANTOMACHY & OTHER POEMS Translated by Maurice Platnauer (1922 Loeb)
CLAUDIAN, RAPE OF PROSERPINE Translated by Maurice Platnauer (1922 Loeb)
DARES PHRYGIUS Translated by R. M. Frazer, Jr. (1966)
DICTYS CRETENSIS Translated by R. M. Frazer, Jr. (1966)
FULGENTIUS, THE MYTHOLOGIES Translated by Leslie George Whitbread (1971)
LATIN, MIDDLE AGES
THE VATICAN MYTHOGRAPHERS Not available online. The only English translation of this work is by Ronald E. Pepin (2008).