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List of Gods : "greek" - 1801 records

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Goddess name
"Chthonia"
Greek May mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, Nyx and Melinoe, but especially of Demeter. Greek
King name
"Cinyras"
Greek A famous Cyprian hero. According to the common tradition, he was a son of Apollo by Paphos, king of Cyprus, and priest of the Paphian Aphrodite, which latter office remained hereditary in his family, the Cinyradae. Greek
Goddess name
"Circe"
Greek A mythical sorceress, whom Homer calls a fair-locked goddess, a daughter of Helios by the oceanid Perse, and a sister of Aeetes. Greek
Nymph name
"Cirrha"
Greek A nymph from whom the town of Cirrha in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. Greek
King name
"Cithaeron"
Greek A mythical king in Boeotia, from whom mount Cithaeron was believed to have derived its name. Greek

"Cithara"
Greek One of the most ancient stringed instruments, traced back to 1700 B.C. among the Semitic races, in Egypt, Assyria, Asia Minor, Greece and the Roman empire, whence the use of it spread over Europe. Greek

"Clanis"
Greek The name of two mythical beings mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses. (xii) Greek

"Clarius"
Greek A surname of Apollo, derived from his temple at Claros in Asia Minor. Greek

"Claudia"
Greek One of the vestal virgins. Greek

"Cleodora"
Greek wife of Lixos.

"Cleolla"
Greek According to Hesiod, Catalogues of Women, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes by Cleolla the daughter of Dias. Greek
Goddess name
"Cleone"
Greek Goddess of water. One of the daughters of Asopus, from whom the town of Cleonae in Peloponnesus was believed to have derived its name. Greek

"Cleopatra"
Greek 1. A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager, is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone. 2. A Danaid, who was betrothed to Etelces or Agenor. There are two other mythical personages of this name in Apollodorus iii. Greek
Goddess name
"Clio"
Greek Goddess of history Roman / Greek
Goddess name
"Clio"
Greek / Roman A goddess of history

"Cloacina / Cluacina"
Greek a surname of Venus, under which she is mentioned at Rome in very early times.

"Clodones"
Greek There were revels in Parnåśśus, in Phocis, Messenia, Arcadia, even Sparta. The festivals were held on mountains, with blazing torches, in dark Winter nights. The votaries were in large part women, and were known by many names,--Maenads, Thyiads, Clodones, Mimallones, Båśśarides, etc. They were clothed in fawn skins, carried thyrsi and in their ecstasies used to hunt wild animals, tear them in pieces, and sometimes eat them raw. Greek

"Clotho"
Greek One of the Three Fates. She presided over birth, and drew from her distaff the thread of life, Atropos presided over death and cut the thread of life, and Lachesis spun the fate of life between birth and death. Greek
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