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List of Greek deities

Structure

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Sources

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Major deities in Greek religion

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Burkert: ("[...]" used for those only discussed briefly)

  • Twelve Olympians: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Ares
  • Lesser gods: Hestia, Eileithyia, Enyalius, Hecate, Prometheus, Leto, Thetis, Leucothea, Pan
  • Groups of gods: [Muses, Charites, Cabeiroi]
  • Nature gods: River gods, [Nymphs, Achelous], Gaia, Anemoi, Helios
  • Foreign gods: Adonis, Great Mother, Sabazios, Ammon
  • Daimon: Agathos Daimon
  • From later on: Heracles, Dioscuri, Asclepius

Larson (not in Burkert):

  • Other Panhellenic deities: Charites, Erinyes
  • Latecomer and regional deities: Cabeiroi, Bendis, Britomartis & Dictynna & Aphaea, Themis, Nemesis, Damia, Auxesia

Oxford Bibliographies (not in Burkert):

  • Traditional Greek gods: Nemesis
  • Foreign gods: Egyptian (Isis, Serapis), Attis, Men

Early gods

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Gantz:

  • Primal elements: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, Eros, Erebus, Nyx, Aether, Hemera, Nyx's children (Thanatos, Hypnos, Oneiroi, Hesperides, Moirai, Keres, Nemesis, Eris)
  • Gaia and Uranus: Gaia, Uranus, Ourea, Pontus, Titans (Oceanus, Tethys), Aphrodite, Dione, Erinyes, Meliae
  • Gaia and Pontus: Nereus (Doris), Thaumas (Electra), Phorcys, Ceto, Eurybia (Crius), Nereids, Iris, Astraeus (Eos), Pallas (Styx), Perses (Asteria), Anemoi (Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus), Eosphorus, Hecate
  • Titans: Oceanus, Tethys, Rivers (Achelous, Peneus, Scamandrus), Oceanids (Styx), Hyperion, Theia, Helios, Selene, Eos, Helios children (Lampetia, Aegle, Phaethousa, others), Eos lovers, Coeus, Phoebe, Leto, Asteria, Iapetos (Clymene), Menoetius, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Cronus, Rhea (Crius, Themis, Mnemosyne)

Hard:

  • First beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, Eros, Erebus, Nyx, Aether, Hemera, Uranus, Pontus
  • Family of Nyx: Nyx, Moros, Ker, Thanatos, Moirai, Keres, Hypnos, Oneiroi, Geras, Oizys, Apate, Nemesis, Eris, Philotes, Hesperides, Momos, Eris's children (Ate, Horkos)
  • Gaia, Uranus, and the Titans: Gaia, Titans (all twelve), Meliae, Erinyes
  • Descendants of the Titans: Oceanus, Tethys, River gods (Eridanos, Achelous, Alpheus, Scamander), Oceanids (various), Hyperion, Theia, Helios, Helios's children (Heliades), Selene, Eos (lovers), Eosphorus, Anemoi (Zephyros, Boreas, Notus), Crius, Eurybia, Pallas, Styx, Perses, Iapetus, Clymene, Menoetius, Atlas
  • Family of Pontus and Gaia: Pontus, Gaia, [Eurybia], Nereus, Nereids (Thetis, Galateia), Thaumas, Iris, Phorcys, Ceto

Kerenyi:

  • Beginnings: Oceanus, Tethys, Night, the Egg, Eros, Chaos, Gaia, etc.
  • Titans: Uranus, Gaia, Cronus, Rhea, etc.
  • Other pre-Olympian deities: Moirai, Eurybia, Styx, Hecate, Oceanids, Phorcys, Proteus, Nereus, Erinyes, Achelous, Thaumas, Iris, Nereids

All/Other gods

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Parada:

  • Divinities:
    • Major Divinities: Twelve Olympians, Titans, Asclepius, Charites, Ganymede, Hecate, Horae, Iris, Muses, Phanes, Tartarus
    • Sidereal and natural Personifications: Aether, Anatole, Carpo, Dysis, Eos, Eosphorus, Gaia, Helios, Hemera, Horae, Iris, Mesembria, Mist [Achlys], Ourea, Nyx, Oceanus, Physis, Pontus, Selene, Uranus, Anemoi
    • Abstract personifications: Ananke, Anteros, Apate, Astraea, Ate, Bia, Chaos, Chronos, Kratos, Deimos, Dike, Eirene, Erebus, Eris, Eros, Eunomia, Geras, Harmonia, Himeros, Hybris, Hygia, Hypnos, Keres, Lyssa, Maniae, Mnemosyne, Moirai, Momos, Moros, Nemesis, Nike, Oizys, Oneiros, Panacea, Peitho, Pheme, Philotes, Phobos, Plutus, Poine, Pothos, Psyche, Thanatos, Tyche, Zelus
    • Other deities: Anubis, Ceto, Conisalus, Consus, Dioscuri, Egeria, Enyo, Eurybia, Harpocrates, Hora, Hymenaeus, Iaso, Eileithyia, Isis, Metis, Morpheus, Orthanes, Osiris, Paion, Phobetor, Phorcys, Priapus, Thaumas, Taraxippus, Tychon
  • Groups: Cabeiroi, Kouretes/Corybantes, Dryads, Epimeliads, Erinyes, Hamadryads, Heliades, Heleads, Hyades, Hydriads, Meliads, Ourea, Naiads, Oreads, Pans, Silenoi, Telchines, Thriae, Tritons, Zeus's Nurses
  • Other sections: Immortals

Gantz:

  • Children of Cronus: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hades, Hestia
  • Children of Zeus: Hephaestus, Ares, Hebe, Eileithyia, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, Dionysus
  • Olympus (doesn't list deities)
  • Underworld (doesn't list deities)
  • Minor divinities: Satyrs, Silenoi (Silenus), Nymphs (various types), Maenads, Kouretes/Korybantes, Cabeiroi, Dactyloi, Telchines, Thriae, Tyche

Hard:

  • Lesser deities and nature spirits: Muses, Charites, Horae, Nymphs, Satyrs, Silenoi, Pan (lovers), Attis, Cybele, Kouretes/Korybantes, Cabeiroi, Dactyloi, Telchines, Glaucus, Priapus, Hymenaeus, Astraea, Demogorgon

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List of Greek deities

  • Major deities in Greek religion (Burkert)
    • Twelve Olympians
    • Lesser deities [All in Burkert]
    • Nature deities [All in Burkert]
    • Foreign deities worshipped in Greece [All in Burkert, Oxford Bibliographies]
  • Early deities (Mostly Gantz, also Hard & Kerenyi)
    • Primal elements [All in Gantz]
    • Descendants of Gaia and Uranus [All in Gantz]
    • Descendants of Gaia and Pontus [All in Gantz]
    • The Titans and their descendants [All in Gantz]
  • Groups of minor divinities and nature spirits (Gantz, Hard, also Parada)
  • Minor personifications [All remaining]
  • Other deities [All remaining]

Prose

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Sources

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Lead:

  • Bremmer
    • 11-4: gods, their individual identities
    • 14-5: the pantheon
    • 15-20: various individual gods
    • 20-3: more on nature of gods
  • Burkert
    • 182-9: anthrop., nature of gods
  • Dover
    • 133-4: divine intervention, what gods can cause
  • Dowden
  • Hansen
    • 32-40: nature of gods & humans
    • 40-43: nature spirits
    • 43-6: relationship of gods & men
    • 264-6: personified abstractions
  • Henrichs
  • Mikalson
  • Larson
  • Larson
  • Price
  • Rose & Hornblower
    • 548-9: epithets
  • Sissa & Detienne
    • 29-33: immortal blood
    • 40-2: qualities/emotions of gods
  • Stafford
  • West
    • 302: gods as growing fast