Women of Ares

Aphrodite (, ) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart , desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was c

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos (; Ionic and Homeric Greek Ēṓs, Attic Héōs, "dawn", or ; Aeolic Aúōs, Doric Āṓs) is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and disperse the night. In Greek tradition and poetry, she is characterized as a goddess with a great sexual appetite, who took numerous human lovers for her own satisfaction and bore them several children. Like her Roman counterpart Aurora and Rigvedic Ushas, Eos continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Eos, o

Greek goddess of discord

thumb|Atalanta surrounded by three Erotes, Attic white-ground [[lekythos, c. 500–470 BC]]

thumb|Terpsichore on an antique fresco from Pompeii

nymph, eponym of the island Aegina

In Greek mythology, Enyo (; ) is a war-goddess, frequently associated with the war-god Ares. The Romans identified her with Bellona.

mythical daughter of Thestius

In Greek mythology, Otrera ( Otrērē) was the founder and first Queen of the Amazons; the consort of Ares and mother of Hippolyta and Penthesilea. She is credited with being the founder of the shrine of Artemis in Ephesus.

one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology

daughter of Cecrops I in Greek mythology

figure of Greek mythology

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In Greek mythology, Pelopia or Pelopea or Pelopeia (Ancient Greek: Πελόπεια) was a name attributed to four individuals:

Erytheia () ("the red one"), also latinized as Erythia, part of Greek mythology, is one of the three Hesperides. The name was applied to the island close to the coast of southern Hispania, that was the site of the original Punic colony of Gadeira. Pliny's Natural History (4.36) records of the island of Gades: "On the side which looks towards Spain, at about 100 paces distance, is another long island, three miles wide, on which the original city of Gades stood. By Ephorus and Philistides it is called Erythia, by Timæus and Silenus Aphrodisias, and by the natives the Isle of Juno." The island wa

set index of Greek mythological characters

set of mythological Greek characters

Astynome () is a name which may refer to one of the following characters in Greek mythology:

The name Astyoche (; Ancient Greek: Ἀστυόχη means 'possessor of the city') or Astyocheia Ancient Greek: Ἀστυόχεια was attributed to the following individuals in Greek mythology:

Triteia () was, in Greek mythology, the daughter of the sea god Triton and the nymph Tritonis as well as the mother, by Ares, of Melanippus. Her son gave to a town in Achaea her name. Sacrifices were offered there to Ares and Tritaea in the temple of Athena.

Protogeneia (; ), in Greek mythology, may refer to: