THE MANY FACES OF GREEK MYTH Meet the figures of myth. Greek mythology is a world of gods, heroes, monsters, spirits, and mortals. Meet the figures in our growing collection and follow the stories that connect them.
All figures121 Primordials Titans Olympians Underworld Other deities Heroes Mortals Nymphs Monsters & creatures
121 figures to discover Sort byGeneration Name, A to Z
Chaos The primordial void
Gaia Earth & creation
Eros Love & desire
Tartarus The deepest cosmic abyss
Uranus Sky & the heavens
Nyx Night & mysteries
Erebus Primordial darkness
Pontus The primordial sea
Typhon The monstrous challenge to Zeus
Cronus Titan kingship & succession
Rhea Motherhood & divine succession
Oceanus The world river & fresh water
Theia Radiance & heavenly light
Hypnos Sleep & rest
Nemesis Retribution & indignation
Eris Strife & discord
Charon The ferry of the dead
Coeus Titan ancestry
Crius Titan ancestry
Phoebe Titan ancestry & Delphic succession
Tethys The river gods & Oceanids
Themis Divine order, custom & counsel
Aether The bright upper air
Cyclopes Divine craftsmanship & the Cyclopean peoples
The Furies Vengeance, kinship offenses & binding curses
Helios The sun & sight
Selene The moon & its cycles
Metis Counsel & cunning intelligence
Leto Motherhood & divine protection
Zeus Sky, thunder & order
Hera Marriage, queenship & family
Poseidon Sea, earthquakes & horses
Hades The underworld & the dead
Demeter Agriculture, grain & growth
Hestia Hearth, home & civic life
Atlas The support of the heavens
Iris The rainbow & divine messages
Tyche Fortune & chance
Morpheus Human forms in dreams
Epimetheus Afterthought & humanity’s beginnings
Thetis The sea & the protection of Achilles
Chiron Healing, instruction & heroic education
Medusa The Gorgons & the petrifying gaze
Echidna The genealogy of monsters
Danae Perseus’s birth & the chest at sea
Maia The mountain retreat
Athena Wisdom, strategy & craft
Apollo Music, prophecy & healing
Artemis Hunt, wilderness & young life
Ares War, courage & conflict
Hephaestus Fire, metalwork & invention
Dionysus Wine, theater & transformation
Persephone The underworld & returning growth
Hecate Magic, crossroads & torches
Hebe Youth & divine service
Perseus Medusa, Andromeda & heroic rescue
Pandora Human origins & the opened jar
Sisyphus Cunning & endless underworld labor
Tantalus Divine offense & frustrated desire
Phaethon The solar chariot & catastrophic proof
Circe Sorcery, transformation & Aeaea
Calypso Ogygia & Odysseus’s captivity
The Muses Song, poetry & inspired knowledge
The Fates Fate & the allotment of mortal lives
Cerberus The gates of the underworld
The Hydra Lerna & Heracles’s second labor
The Chimera Lycia & Bellerophon’s impossible task
Pegasus Flight, Bellerophon & the service of Zeus
Polyphemus The Cyclops encounter in the Odyssey
Scylla The deadly strait of the Odyssey
Charybdis The destructive whirlpool
The Sirens Dangerous song & promised knowledge
Minos Crete, tribute & underworld judgment
Andromeda Perseus’s rescue & the sea monster
Pyrrha Flood survival & humanity’s renewal
Hermes Travel, trade & cleverness
Psyche The soul & the trials of love
Pan Shepherds, wild places & rustic music
Heracles The twelve labors & heroic endurance
Theseus Athens, the labyrinth & the Minotaur
Achilles The Trojan War & the Iliad
Odysseus Ithaca, endurance & resourcefulness
Jason The Argonauts & the Golden Fleece
Orpheus Music, poetry & the descent for Eurydice
Atalanta Hunting, racing & the golden apples
Hector Troy’s defense & the Iliad
Oedipus Thebes, the Sphinx & tragic recognition
Ariadne The labyrinth, Theseus & Dionysus
Medea Colchis, magic & the Argonauts
Daedalus Invention, the labyrinth & flight
Midas The golden touch & the judgment of music
Narcissus Self-recognition & unfulfilled love
Helen Sparta, Troy & contested responsibility
Paris The golden apple, Helen & the Trojan War
Penelope Ithaca, weaving & recognition
Agamemnon Greek command at Troy & the house of Atreus
Eurydice Orpheus’s descent & the failed return
Adonis Aphrodite’s love & a hunter’s death
Echo Echoing sound & unreturned love
Daphne The laurel & resistance to Apollo
Arachne Weaving, artistic rivalry & transformation
Actaeon Artemis, hunting & the stag transformation
Baucis Hospitality & lifelong companionship
Philemon Hospitality & a shared old age
Patroclus Achilles’s companionship & the turning point at Troy
Icarus The escape from Crete & the wax wings
An expanding atlas of Greek mythology. This edition includes 121 profiles of gods, heroes, mortals, nymphs, and mythical creatures. Ancient traditions sometimes disagree; each profile names its sources. Portraits and symbolic emblems are modern interpretations.