Greek Mythology

Gods

Aphrodite

Apollo

Ares

Artemis

Athena

Demeter

Dionysus

Hades

Hephaestus

Hera

Hermes

Hestia

Persephone

Poseidon

Zeus

God of the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses

Goddess of the domestic and civic hearth, the home, sacred and sacrificial fire, virginity, family, and the state

Queen of the Gods
Goddess of marriage, women, marital harmony, and the protector of women during childbirth

God of the dead and riches

Goddess of the harvest, agriculture, fertility, and sacred law

Goddess of nature, childbirth, wildlife, healing, the hunt, sudden death, animals, virginity, young women and archery

God of war and courage

Goddess of love, lust, passion, pleasure, beauty, and sexuality

God of oracles, healing, archery, music and arts, light, knowledge, herds and flocks, and protection of the young

Goddess of wisdom, warfare, and handicraft

God of wine, vegetation, fertility, festivity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre

God of fire, metalworking, craftsmen, sculpture, metallurgy and volcanoes

God of boundaries, roads, travelers, thieves, athletes, shepherds, commerce, speed, cunning, wit and messages

Goddess of spring, the dead, the underworld, grain, and nature

King of the Gods
God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, and order

Evil creatures

Arae

Female daemons of curses, from the underworld

Argus/Argus Panoptes

A giant with 100 eyes

Basilisk

A snake that kills anyone who sees it

Catoblepas

A buffalo-like creature with shaggy fur, large horns, and a heavy head whose toxic breath or ugly looks could kill

Cerberus

3 headed dog, Hades' pet

Cetus

Sea monsters

Ceuthonymus.

Daemon of the underworld, and father of Menoetius

Charybdis

a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool or a huge water mouth

Chimera

a fire-breathing, three-headed monster with one head of a lion, one of a snake, and another of a goat, lion claws in front and goat legs behind, and a long snake tail.

Crocotta/Cynolycus

A creature with the body of a stag, a lion's neck, cloven hooves, and a wide mouth with a sharp, bony ridge in place of teeth. It imitates the human voice, calls men by name at night, and devours those who approach it.

Empusa

Beautiful demonesses, with flaming hair and with one brass leg and the other one a donkey leg, who preyed on human blood and flesh.

Gorgons (Euryale, Medusa and Stheno)

Female monsters depicted as having snakes on their head instead of hair, and sometimes described as having tusks, wings, and brazen claws.

Kobaloi

A mischievous creature fond of tricking and frightening mortals

Scylla

Once a nereid, transformed by Circe into a many-headed, tentacled monster who fed on passing sailors in the straits between herself and Charybdis by plucking them off the ship and eating them.

Sirens

Bird-like women whose irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths

Minotaur

A monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus in the Labyrinth created by Daedelus.

Merpeople

Humans with fish tails instead of legs, who lure adventurers to drown them.