Apollo
(Greek)

Son of Zeus and Leto and brother of Artemis, is presented as the ideal type of manly beauty.
He is associated with the sun and linked, especially with music, poetis inspiration, archery, prophecy, medicine and pastoral life.

Asclepius
(Greek)

God of healing and the son of Apollo, is often represented wearing a staff, with a serpent coiled around it.
He sometimes bears a scroll, or tablet, thought to represent medical learning.

Chaos
(Greek)

The first created being, from which came the primeval deities, Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus and Nyx.

Cronus
(also Kronos)
(Greek)

The leader of the Titans.
He married his sister, who bore him several children, who became gods, including Zeus.
He was destined to be overthrown, by one of his male children and attempted to overcome thism by killing them all at birth, by swallwong them.
His wife, Rhea, defied him, hid Zeus in Crete and gave Cronus a stone, wrapped in swaddling clothes, to swallow instead.
Zeus eventually overthrew him.

Cupid
(Roman)

God of love and was identified by the Romans with Eros.
He is often pictured as a beatiful, naked boy with wings, carrying a bow and arrow, with which he pierces his victims.

Dionysus
(Greek)

Called Bacchus by the Romans.  He was originally a god of the fertility of nature.
Dionysus is also associated with wild and ecstatic religious rites. 
In later traditions, he is a god of wine, who loosens inhibitions and inspires creativity in music and poetry.

Erebus
(Greek)

The primeval god of darkness, son of Chaos.

Helios
(Greek)

The sun, personified as a god.
He is generally represented as a charioteer, driving daily, from east to west across the sky.
In Rhodes, in particular, he was the chief national god.

Hephaestus
(Greek)

The god of fire (especially the smithy fire), son of Zeus and Hera and was identified with Vulcan, by Romans.
He was also the god of craftsmen.  He was, himself, a divine craftsman, who was lame as the result of having interfered in a quarrel between his parents.

Hermes
(Greek)

Son of Zeus and Maia.
The messenger of the gods and god of merchants, thieves and public speaking.
He was usually pictured as a herald, equipped for travelling, with broad-brimmed hat, winged shoes and a winged rod.
indentified by the Romans with Mercury, he was also associated with fertility.

Hypnos
(Greek)

The god of sleep.
was the son of Nyx (night).

Janus
(Roman)

An ancient Italian deity.
he is guardian of doorways, gates and beginnings and protector of the state in times of war.
He is usually represented with two faces, so that he looks both forwards and backwards.

Jupiter
(Roman)

The chief god of the Roman state, giver of victory and was identified with Zeus.
Also called Jove, he was originally a sky god, associated with lightening and the thunderbolt.  His wife was Juno.

Mars
(Roman)

The god of war and the most important god after Jupiter.
He is identified by the Greek, with Ares and was probably originally an agricultural god.
The month of March is named after him.

Mercury
(Roman)

The god of eloquence, skill, trading and thieving.
He was a herald and messenger of the gods, who was identified with Hermes.

Mithras
(Roman)

Probably of Persian origin, a god of light, truth and of honest pledges.
He was the central figure of a cult, popular among Roman soldiers, which centred on bull sacrifice.
He was also associated with merchants and the protection of warriors.

Neptune
(Roman)

The god of water and of the sea.
He is also identified with the Greek, Poseidon.

Nereus
(Greek)

An old sea god, the father of the nereids.
Like Proteus, he had the power of shape shifting, or assuming various forms.

Pan
(Greek)

A god of flocks and herds, he is usually depicted with the horns, ears and legs of a goat, on a mans body.
He was though of, as lvong mountains, caves and lonely places, aswell as playing on the pan-pipes.
He is also a god of nature.

Pluto
(Greek)

The god of the underworld and of transformation.

Poseidon
(Greek)

The god of the sea, water, earthquakes and horses.
He is often portrayed with a trident in his hand.
He is identified with the Roman god, Neptune.

Priapus
(Greek)

God of gardens and the patron of seafarers and shepherds.
He is represented as a distorted human figure, with extremely large genitals.

Proteus
(Greek)

A minor sea god, who had the power of prophecy, but who would assume different shapes to avoid answering questions.

Saturn
(Roman)

An ancient god, identified with the Greek, Cronus.  Often regarded as a god of agriculture.
His festival in December, Saturnalia, eventually became one of the elements in the celebrations of Christmas.

Silenus
(Greek)

An ancient woodland deity, was one of the sileni (a class of woodland spirits), who was encrusted with the education of Dionysus.
he is shown, either as stately, inspired and tuneful, or as a drunk old man.

Silvanus
(Roman)

An Italian woodland deity, identified with Pan.
He is also worshipped in Celtic beliefs.

Titans
(Greek)

Are any of the older gods, who preceeded the Olympians and were the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (earth).

Uranus
(Greek)

A personification of heaven, or the sky.
The most ancient of the Greek gods and the first ruler of the universe.

Zeus
(Greek)

The supreme god.
he was the protector and ruler of humankind, the dispenser of good and evil and the god of weather and atmospheric phenomena (rain, thunder, etc).
He was identified with Jupiter, by the Romans.

Achlys

The Greek Mother.  The first being to exist, according to myth.
She gave birth to Chaos.

Amphitrite
(Greek)

A sea goddess, wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton.

Aphrodite
(Greek)

The goddess of beauty, fertility and sexual love, identified by the Romans, with Venus.
She is portrayed, both as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, or as being born of the sea foam.
She is often connected with Phoenician Astarte and Babylonian Ishtar.

Arachne
(Greek)

A spider goddess.
Originally a mortal, she was a talented weaver, who challenged Athene to compete with her.  The contest was held and her work was faultless, apart from the subject matter, which showed some gods, particularly Zeus (Athenes father), in an unflattering light.  Athene was greatly displeased and in retribution, turned Arachne into a spider.

Artemis
(Greek)

A huntress goddess.
She is often depicted with a bow and arrows and is associated with birth, fertility and abundance.
She was identified with the Roman goddess, Diana and with Selene.

Athene
(Greek)

Identified with the Roman Minerva and often symbolised as an epitome of wisdom and strategy.
She is also called Pallas.
Statues show her as female, but fully armed.
The owl is regularly associated with her.

Aurora
(Roman)

Goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Greek, Eos.

Bona Dea
(Roman)

An earth goddess of fertility.
Her name means 'good goddess'.
Worshipped by women only, no men were allowed to be present at her rites.
The Romans would even cover up statues of the male gods, when her rite was performed.

Ceres
(Roman)

The corn goddess.
Commonly identified by the Romans, with Demeter.

Circe
(Greek)

Goddess of Aeaea, an island in the North Adriatic.
Her name means 'she-falcon'.
Her sacred tree is a willow.

Cybele
(Greek)

A goddess of caverns and of the primitive earth.
Also known as the bee goddess, she ruled over wild beasts.

Demeter
(Greek)

A corn and barley goddess.  Also goddess of the earth in its productive state.
She is mother of Persephone.
She is identified with Ceres and also Cybele.
Her symbol is often an ear of corn.

Diana
(Roman)

An early goddess, identified with Artemis and associated with hunting, virginity and the moon.

Eos
(Greek)

Goddess of the dawn. 
Corresponding to the Roman goddess, Aurora.

The Fates
(Greek and Roman)

The three goddesses (also called the Moirai and the Parcae), who presided over the birth and life of humans. 
Each person was thought of as a spindle, around which, the three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos) would spin the thread of human destiny.
They also have power over other gods.

Flora
(Roman)

Goddess of flowering plants.

The Furies
(Greek)

The spirits of punishment.
Often represented as three goddesses (Alecto, Magaera and Tisiphone), with hair made from snakes.
They implemented the curses pronounced upon criminals, tortured the guilty with stings of conscience and inflicted famines and plagues.

The Graces
(Greek)

Beautiful goddesses, usually three (Algaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne) daughters of Zeua.
Personifying charm, grace and beauty, which they grant as physical, intellectual, creative and moral qualities.

Hecate
(Greek)

Goddess of dark places. 
Often associated with ghosts and sorcery and worshipped with offerings at crossroads.
Identified as queen of the witches in the modern day, she is frequently identified with Artemis and Selene.
Her name means 'the distant one'.

Hera
(Greek)

Worshipped as the queen of heaven and a marriage goddess.
The Romans identified her with Juno.

Juno
(Roman)

Originally an ancient mother goddess and became the most important goddess of the Roman state.
She was the wifeof Jupiter.

Iris
(Greek)

Goddess of the rainbow.
She also acted as messenger of the gods.

Minerva
(Roman)

Goddess of handicrafts.
Commonly worshipped and associated with Athene.  Because of this association, she came to be regarded as the goddess of war.

Muses
(Greek and Roman)

Goddesses who presided over the arts and sciences.
Customarily nine in number (Calliope, Clio, Eurterpe, Terpsichore, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, Polyhymnia and Urania), their functions and even their names, differ widely between the various sources.

Nemesis
(Greek)

A goddess usually portrayed as the agent of divine punishment for wrongdoing, or presumtion.
She is often little more than the personification of retribution.

Nike
(Greek)

The goddess of victory, who challenged her suitors to outrun her.

Persephone
(Greek)

Was called Proserpina by the Romans.
Hades, king of the underworld, wanted her as his wife.  her mother, Demeter, disagreed.  Hades tracked Persephone down, carried her off and made her queen of the underworld.  Unable to find her, Demeter began to pine and famine began to spread around the world.  She eventually found her with Hades, but because Persephone had eaten the pomegranate (Hades' fruit), it was agreed that she would spend six months on earth and six months in the underworld.
From a macigal perspective, the story symbolises the return of fertility to the earth.

Selene
(Greek)

Goddess of the moon.
Identified with Artemis.

Tethys
(Greek)

A goddess of the sea, daughter of Uranus (heaven) and Gaia (earth).

Themis
(Greek)

The daughter of Uranus (heaven) and Gaia (earth).
She was the personification of order and justice, who convened the assembly of the gods.

Venus
(Roman)

Goddess of beauty.
Identified with Aphrodite.
She was a spirit of kitchen gardens, in earlier times.

Vesta
(Roman)

Goddess of the hearth and household.
Was considered important enough to have her own hand-maidens, the vestal virgins.