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NAMES EASILY CONFUSED
- EROS: oldest of the gods (or youngest) `Attraction' `Desire
- ERIS: one of two goddesses (Hesiod): Competition and Strife
- DIKE: daughter of Zeus and Themis (`Justice')
- NIKE: Victoria, daughter of Styx.
- THEMIS: mother of Prometheus (Aeschylus) daughter of Heaven and Earth; a Titaness.
- THETIS: mother of Achilles; daughter of Oceanus; an Oceanid
- CHARON: Ferryman of the Dead on the River Styx; son of Erebos
- CHEIRON: centaur: Headmaster of School for Young Heroes
- LYCAON king of Arcadia; visited by Zeus; served up his son as stew; changed into `the Wolf' (Powell p. 131-132.)
- LYCURGUS son of Dryas and king of Thrace. Harassed Dionysus and Maenads. Driven mad, he killed his own son, thinking he was a tree (dryas), and hacked himself to death too.
- LYNKOS king of Sarmatians (?) visited by Triptolemus. Tried to murder T. to get secret of wheat growing. Changed into Lynx by Demeter.
- LYNKEUS son of Aegyptus; only one of the new husbands not killed by his new wife (Hypermnestra), one of the 50 Daughters of Danaus (Danaids)
- LETO (Latona) Titaness: mother of Apollo and Artemis, by Zeus.
- LEDA `The Swan': mother of Clytamnestra and Castor; wife of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta. Debauched by Zeus (in the form of swans).
- METANEIRA Queen of Eleusis, employer of Demeter, mother of Triptolemus and Demophon (Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Powell, pp. 232-234).
- DEIANEIRA daughter of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and sister of Meleager. last wife of Herakles (Ovid Metamorphoses IX; Powell pp. 398-402)
- HARMONIA Cadmus' wife, mentioned in Euripides' Bacchae (sometimes, in fact, called Hermione)
- HERMIONE Daughter of Helen `of Troy' and Menelaus
- HESIONE daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy; rescued by Herakles from a sea monster (after he spent three days in its belly); he gave her as a wife to his friend Telamon, by whom she had a son Teucer (half-brother of Ajax and the best archer at Troy)
- HELEN `of Troy': daughter of Zeus and Leda, sister of Pollux, and half-sister of Castor and Clytamnestra; Married Menelaus the brother of Agamemnon.
- HELLEN the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha (daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora). The original `Hellene' and thus ancestor of all the Greeks; his sons were Doros (the Dorians), Aeolus (the
Aeolians) and Xuthus (whose son was Ion, the Ionians).
- HELENUS a son of King Priam of Troy. He (and his sister Cassandra) had prophetic powers, which gave him much information about the course of the war at Troy. He survived the war.
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