Greek mythology

## Gods

1. Zeus - storm god
2. Poseidon - sea god
3. Hera - mother goddess
4. Demeter - goddess of the harvest
5. Aphrodite - goddess of beauty
6. Athena - war goddess
7. Artemis -
8. Apollo - sun god
9. Ares - war god
10. Hades - death god
11. Persephone - death goddess
12. Hephaestus - smith god
13. Hermes - messanger god
14. Hestia -
15. Dionysus - wine god

## Monsters

1. Aeternae, creatures with bony, saw-toothed protuberances sprouting from their heads.
2. Alcyoneus, a giant.
3. Almops, a giant son of the god Poseidon and the half-nymph Helle.
4. Aloadae, a group of giants who capture the god Ares.
5. Amphisbaena, a serpent with a head at each end.
6. Arae, female daemons of curses, called forth from the underworld.
7. Argus or Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant.
8. Asterius, a giant.
9. Athos, a giant.
10. Basilisk, a snake that kills anyone who lays eyes on it.
11. Briareus, a Hundred-hander.
12. Catoblepas, a buffalo-like creature with shaggy fur, large horns, and a heavy head whose toxic breath or ugly looks could kill.
13. Centaur and Centauride, creatures with a head and the torso of a human, and the body of a horse.
	1. Centaurs
		1. Agrius, one of the centaurs who fought with Heracles
		2. Amycus, one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
		3. Asbolus, a centaur. He was a seer who read omens in the flight of birds.
		4. Bienor, one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
		5. Centaurus, father of the centaurs.
		6. Chiron,The ancient trainer of heroes such as Heracles.
		7. Chthonius, a centaur who was killed by Nestor at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.
		8. Cyllarus, one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
		9. Dictys, one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
		10. Elatus, a centaur killed by Heracles.
		11. Eurynomos, one of the Centaurs who fought against the Lapiths at the wedding of Hippodamia.
		12. Eurytion, two different Centaurs bearing the same name.
		13. Eurytus, a centaur present at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, who caused the conflict between the Lapiths and the centaurs by trying to carry the bride off.
		14. Hylaeus, a centaur who tried to rape Atalanta. She killed him.
		15. Hylonome, a Centauride, wife of Cyllarus.
		16. Nessus, a famous centaur, was killed by Heracles.
		17. Perimedes, one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
		18. Phólos.
		19. Pholus, a wise centaur and friend of Heracles.
		20. Rhaecus, a centaur who tried to rape Atalanta, who Atalanta then killed.
		21. Rhoetus, a centaur who fought and killed at the Centauromachy.
		22. Thaumas.
	2. Cyprian centaurs, bull-horned centaurs native to the island of Cyprus.
	3. Lamian centaurs or Lamian Pheres, twelve rustic spirits of the Lamos river. They were instructed by Zeus to guard the infant Dionysus, protecting him from the machinations of Hera, but the enraged goddess transformed them into ox-horned centaurs. They accompanied Dionysus in his campaign against the Indians.
		1. Aescaus
		2. Amphithemis
		3. Ceteus
		4. Eurybios
		5. Faunus
		6. Gleneus
		7. Nomeon
		8. Orthaon
		9. Petraeus
		10. Phanes
		11. Riphonus
		12. Spargeus
	4. Winged centaurs
14. Cerastes, spineless serpents with a set of ram-like horns on their heads.
15. Cerberus, a three headed dog, pet of Hades
16. Cetus or Ceto, sea monsters.
17. Ceuthonymus, daemon of the underworld. Father of Menoetius.
18. Charon, the ferryman of Hades, who transports the dead across the River Styx
19. Charybdis, a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool or a huge water mouth.
20. 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.
21. Chthonius, a giant.
22. Crocotta or 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.
23. Cyclopes one-eyed giants.
	1. Arges, one of the children of Gaia and Uranus. Uranus locked him in Tartarus.
	2. Brontes, one of the children of Gaia and Uranus. Uranus locked him in Tartarus.
	3. Steropes, one of the children of Gaia and Uranus. Uranus locked him in Tartarus.
	4. Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, who was outwitted and blinded by Odysseus.
	5. Assistants of the god Hephaestus at his workshops.
24. Daemons
	1. Agathodaemon
	2. Cacodemon
	3. Eudaemon
25. Daemones Ceramici, five malevolent spirits who interfered with the work of potters.
	1. Asbestos
	2. Omodamos
	3. Sabaktes
	4. Smaragos
	5. Syntribos
26. Damysus, the fastest of the giants.
27. Demogorgon
28. Derceto, was a half-woman-half fish goddess.
29. Diomedes of Thrace, was a giant, the son of Ares and Cyrene.
30. Dryad, tree spirits that look similar to women.
31. Echion, a giant.
32. Eidolon, spirit-image of a living or dead person; a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form.
33. 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.
34. Enceladus or Enkelados, a giant who battled Athena in the war against the gods.
35. Eurynomos, the netherworld daemon of rotting corpses dwelling in the Underworld.
36. Eurytus, a giant.
37. Gegenees, six-armed giants which were slain by the Argonauts.
38. Gello, a female demon or revenant who threatens the reproductive cycle by causing infertility, miscarriage, and infant mortality.
39. Geryon, a giant: according to Hesiod, Geryon had one body and three heads, whereas the tradition followed by Aeschylus gave him three bodies. A lost description by Stesichorus said that he has six hands and six feet and is winged; there are some mid-sixth-century Chalcidian vases portraying Geryon as winged. Some accounts state that he had six legs as well, while others state that the three bodies were joined to one pair of legs.
40. Ghosts,
41. Shades,
42. Spirits.
43. Gigantes, were a race of great strength and aggression. Archaic and Classical representations show Gigantes as human in form. Later representations show Gigantes with snakes for legs.
44. Gorgons, female monsters depicted as having snakes on their head instead of hair, and sometimes described as having tusks, wings, and brazen claws.
	1. Euryale, whose scream could kill.
	2. Medusa, whose gaze could turn anyone to stone, was killed by Perseus.
	3. Stheno, the third gorgon sister.
45. Graeae, three old women with one tooth and one eye among them. Also known as the Graeae sisters.
	1. Deino
	2. Enyo
	3. Pemphredo
46. Griffin or Gryphon or Gryps or Grypes, a creature that combines a lion's body and an eagle's head and wings.
47. Harpies, a creature with the torso, head, and arms of a woman, and the talons, tail, and wings (mixed with the arms) of a bird. Very small but can be vicious when provoked.
	1. Aello
	2. Celaeno
	3. Ocypete
48. Hecatonchires, three giants of incredible strength and ferocity, each with a hundred arms; also called Centimanes.
	1. Briareos or Aegaeon
	2. Cottus
	3. Gyges
49. Hippalectryon, a creature with the fore parts of a horse and the hind parts of a cockerel/rooster.
50. Hippocampus, a creature with the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a fish. Created by Poseidon when he offered them to Athens.
51. Hydras
	1. Lernaean Hydra, a many-headed, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerna. It was destroyed by Heracles, in his second Labour. Son of Typhon and Echidna.
52. Ichthyocentaurs, a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish.
	1. Aphros
	2. Bythos
53. Ipotane, a race of half-horse, half-humans. The Ipotanes are considered the original version of the centaurs.
54. Keres, the spirits of violent or cruel death.
	* Achlys, who may have been numbered amongst the Keres. She was represented on the shield of Heracles.
55. Kobaloi, a mischievous creature fond of tricking and frightening mortals.
56. Laestrygonians or Laestrygones, a tribe of giant cannibals.
	1. Antiphates, King of the Laestrygonians.
57. Lamia
58. Lion-Headed Giants
	1. Leon or Lion, killed by Herakles in the war against the gods.
59. Manticore or Androphagos, having the body of a red lion, a human face with three rows of sharp teeth, and the wings of a bat or dragon. The manticore can shoot spikes out of its tail, making it a deadly foe.
60. Merpeople, humans with fish tail after torso (Mermaid as female, Merman as male). They lure adventurers to drown them.
61. Mimas, a giant.
62. Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus in the Labyrinth created by Daedelus.
63. Multi-headed Dogs
	1. Cerberus (Hellhound), the three-headed giant hound that guarded the gates of the Underworld.
	2. Orthrus, a two-headed dog, brother of Cerberus, slain by Heracles.
64. Nymph
65. Odontotyrannos, a beast with a black, horse-like head, with three horns protruding from its forehead, and exceeded the size of an elephant.
66. Onocentaur, part human, part donkey. It had the head and torso of a human with the body of a donkey.
67. Ophiotaurus (Bull-Serpent), a creature part bull and part serpent.
68. Orion, giant huntsman whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion by Artemis.
69. Ouroboros, an immortal self-eating, circular being. The being is a serpent or a dragon curled into a circle or hoop, biting its tail.
70. Pallas, a giant.
71. Panes, a tribe of nature spirits that had the heads and torsos of men, the legs and tails of goats, goatish faces, and goat-horns.
72. Periboea, a Giantess. Daughter of the king of the giants.
73. Philinnion, an unwed maiden who died prematurely and returned from the tomb as the living dead to consort with a handsome youth named Makhates. When her mother discovered the girl she collapsed back into death and was burned by the terrified townsfolk beyond the town boundaries.
74. Phoenix, a golden-red firebird of which only one could live at a time, but would burst into flames to rebirth from ashes as a new phoenix.
75. Picolous, one of the Giants.
76. Polybotes, a giant.
77. Porphyrion, a giant, king of the giants.
78. Satyrs and Satyresses, creatures with upper human bodies, and the horns and hindquarters of a goat. Some were companions of Pan and Dionysus.
	1. Agreus
	2. Ampelos
	3. Marsyas
	4. Nomios
	5. Silenus or Papposilenus, companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.
79. 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.
80. Scythian Dracanae, upper body of a woman, lower body composed of two snake tails.
81. Sea goats, creatures having the back end of a fish and the front parts of a goat.
82. Sirens, bird-like women whose irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths.
83. Skolopendra, a giant sea monster said to be the size of a Greek trireme. It has a crayfish-like tail, numerous legs along its body which it uses like oars to move, and extremely long hairs that protrude from its nostrils. Child of Phorcys and Keto.
84. Spartae, a malevolent spirit born from violence. *Argo* crew member Jason fought alongside these creatures after discovering the dragon teeth could create these violent spirits. Spartae is generally depicted as skeletal beings with some form of weapon and military attire.
85. Sphinx
	* Androsphinx or simply Sphinx, a creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion.
	* Criosphinx, a creature with the head of a ram and the body of a lion.
	* Hieracosphinx, a creature with the head of a hawk and the body of a lion.
86. Stymphalian birds, man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims.
87. Tarandos, a rare animal with the size of an ox and the head of a deer. It could change the color of its hair according to the environment that it was, like a chameleon. It was living at the land of the Scythians. Solinus, wrote about a similar creature in Aethiopia and called it Parandrus.
88. Taraxippi, ghosts that frightened horses.
89. Thoon, a giant.
90. Three-Bodied or Triple-Bodied Daemon, a winged monster with three human bodies ending in serpent-tails.
91. Tityos, a giant.
92. Triton, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, half-man and half-fish.
93. Typhon or Typhoeus, a humongous savage monster with snake coils instead of limbs; father of several other monsters with his mate Echidna. Almost destroyed the gods but was foiled by Hermes and Zeus.
94. Unicorns or Monocerata, creatures as large as horses, or even larger with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from their forehead.
95. Vampire Daemons/ Lamiai.
	1. Corinthian Lamia, a vampiric demon who seduced the handsome youth Menippos in the guise of a beautiful woman to consume his flesh and blood.
	2. Empousa, seductive female vampire demons with fiery hair, a leg of bronze, and a donkey's foot. They are especially good at ensnaring men with their beauty before devouring them.
	3. Lamia, a vampiric demon who by voluptuous artifices attracted young men, to enjoy their fresh, youthful, and pure flesh and blood.
	4. Mormo or Mormolyceae or Mormolyce, a vampiric creature that preyed on children.
	5. Mormolykeia, female underworld Daemons, attendants of the goddess Hecate.
96. Werewolf or Lycanthrope.
	1. Agriopas, he tasted the viscera of a human child and was turned into a wolf for ten years.
	2. Damarchus, a boxer from Parrhasia (Arcadia) who is said to have changed his shape into that of a wolf at the festival of Lykaia, became a man again after ten years.
	3. Lycaon, turned into a wolf by the gods as punishment for serving them his murdered son Nyctimus' flesh at a feast.
	4. Lykos (Λύκος) of Athens was a wolf-shaped herο, whose shrine stood by the jury court, and the first jurors were named after him.
97. Winged Horses or Pterippi, winged horses.
	1. Pegasus, a divine winged stallion that is pure white, son of Medusa and Poseidon, brother of Chrysaor, and father of winged horses.
	2. Ethiopian Pegasus, winged, horned horses native to Ethiopia.