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Pollux

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Pollux is the twin brother of Castor. See Dioscuri for further reading.

Phrygia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Phrygia.

Quirinus

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In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus is an early god of the Roman state

Roma

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In ancient Roman religion, Roma was a female deity who personified the city of Rome and more broadly, the Roman state. She embodied and idealised certain of Rome's ideas about itself, its advancement and its eventual domination of its neighbours.

Pudicitia

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Pudicitia ("modesty" or "sexual virtue") was a central concept in ancient Roman sexual ethics, later personified in art.

Res Publica

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Res Publica is the personfication of the Roman state. It appears mainly on some types of Constantine in conjunction with Pax and Victory.

Rhine

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The Roman personification of the Rhine River.

Quies

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Quies is the Roman personification of tranquility.

Securitas

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In Roman mythology, Securitas was the goddess of security and stability, especially the security of the Roman Empire. On coinage Securitas was usually depicted leaning on a column.

Savus

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Savus is the personification of a river near Siscia (modern Sava River), the longest tributary of the Danube.

Sarmatia

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The Roman personification of the region and people of Sarmatia, on the Pontic steppe.

Saeculum Frugiferum

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Saeculum Frugiferum is the embodiment of a "fruitful era."

Sol Invictus

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Sol Invictus, sometimes known as Helios, was long considered to be the official sun god of the later Roman Empire. In the traditional view, Sol Invictus was the second of two entirely different sun gods in Rome. The first of these, Sol Indiges, or Sol, was an early Roman deity of minor importance whose cult had petered out by the first century AD. Sol Invictus, on the other hand, was a Syrian sun god whose cult was first promoted in Rome under Elagabalus, without success. Some fifty years later, on 25 December AD 274, the Roman emperor Aurelian did succeed to establish the cult of Sol Invictus as an official religion, alongside the traditional Roman cults.

Sothis

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Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.

Sicilia

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The personification of the island of Sicily, identifiable by a triskeles headress.

Siscia

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The Roman personification of the city of Siscia.

Tutela

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Tutela was the ancient Roman concept of "guardianship", conceived of as a goddess in the Imperial period, and from the earliest period as a functional role that various tutelary deities might play, particularly Juno. Tutela had particular applications in Roman law.

Tigris

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The Roman personification of the Mesopotamian river, the Tigris.

Thrace

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The Roman personification of the region of Thrace.

Vejovis

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Vejovis or Vejove was a Roman god of Etruscan origins. Vejovis was portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows, pilum, (or lightning bolts) in his hand, and accompanied by a goat. Romans believed that Vejovis was one of the first gods to be born. He was a god of healing, and became associated with the Greek Asclepius.

Valeria Luperca

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A minor legendary figure in Rome, who healed the sick during an epidemic following the sacrifice of a bull.

Tyche of Antioch

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An aspect of Tyche pertaining to the city of Antioch, often shown seated with a mural crown. Often, the personification of Orontes swims at her feet.

Venus Aphrodisias

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An epithet corresponding to the temple of Venus (Aphrodite) at Aphrodisas.

Venus Felix

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Venus Felix ("Lucky Venus"), probably a traditional epithet, combining aspects of Venus and Fortuna, goddess of both good and bad fortune and personification of luck, whose iconography includes the rudder of a ship.

Utilitas

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The Roman personification of utility.

Venus Genetrix

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The Venus Genetrix is a sculptural type which shows the Roman goddess Venus in her aspect of Genetrix ("foundress of the family"), as she was honoured by the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Rome, which claimed her as their ancestor.

Via Trajana

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The personification of the Via Trajana or Traiana, which was an ancient Roman road. It was built by the emperor Trajan as an extension of the Via Appia from Beneventum. It is often shown holding a wheel.

Achilles

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In Greek mythology, Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia.

Aeneas

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In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). In Roman mythology, Aeneas is cast as the ancestor of Romulus and Remus.

Aegyptus

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Aegyptos is a legendary king of Egypt in Greek mythology, essentially the personification of the historical region or Roman province of Egypt

Actaeon

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Actaeon, or Aktaion, in Greek mythology, was the son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, and a famous Theban hero.

Adonis

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In Greek mythology, Adonis was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite and of Persephone.

Aeternitas

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In ancient Roman religion, Aeternitas was the divine personification of eternity. She was particularly associated with Imperial cult as a virtue of the deified emperor (divus).

Achaea

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The personification of the Roman province of Achaea.

Ahura Mazda

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Ahura Mazda also known as Oromasdes, Ohrmazd, Ormusd, Ahuramazda, Hoormazd, Harzoo, Hormazd, Hormaz and Hurmuz, is the creator deity and god of the sky[3] in Zoroastrianism.

Ajax

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Ajax or Aias is a Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role in the Trojan War, and is portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War, being second only to Achilles among Greek heroes of the war.

Anchises

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Anchises was a member of the royal family of Troy in Greek and Roman legend. He was said to have been the son of King Capys of Dardania and Themiste, daughter of Ilus, who was son of Tros. He is most famous as the father of Aeneas and for his treatment in Virgil's Aeneid.

Antaeus

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Antaeus, known to the Berbers as Anti, was a figure in Berber and Greek mythology. He was famed for his defeat by Heracles as part of the Labours of Hercules.

Amalthea

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In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus.

Amphiaraus

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In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus or Amphiaraos was the son of Oicles, a seer, and one of the leaders of the Seven against Thebes.

Amphinomus

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Amphinomus, brother of Anapias, from Catania (Zankle) is associated with a legend of abanding his property to carry off their parents during an eurption of Mount Etna.

Annona

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In ancient Roman religion, Annona (Latin annōna “corn, grain; means of subsistence”, from annus "year") is the divine personification of the grain supply to the city of Rome. She is closely connected to the goddess Ceres, with whom she is often depicted in art.

Anapias

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Apapias, brother of Amphinomos, from Catania (Zankle) is associated with a legend of abanding his property to carry off their parents during an eurption of Mount Etna.

Apollo

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Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.

Aphrodite

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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation.

Artemis

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Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, and chastity. Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.

Anubis

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Anubis, also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian is the god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld, in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.

Ariadne

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Ariadne was a Cretan princess in Greek mythology. She was mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths because of her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus.

Aristaeus

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A minor god in Greek mythology, attested mainly by Athenian writers, Aristaeus (“Most Excellent, Most Useful”), was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many rural useful arts and handicrafts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of the huntress Cyrene and Apollo.

Ares

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Ares is the Greek god of courage and war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.

Aphrodite Urania

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Aphrodite Urania was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos.

Apollo Carneius

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Karneios, a Dorian god and epithet of Apollo.

Asclepius

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Asclepius is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology, associated with Vejovis or Vedijovis in Roman mythology.

Bellerophon

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Hipponous, more commonly known as Bellerophon or Bellerophontes was a divine Corinthian hero of Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Eurynome, and the foster son of Glaukos. He is famous for slaying the chimera.

Ascanius

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Ascanius (said to have reigned 1176-1138 BC) was a legendary king of Alba Longa and is the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam. Also known as Julus, he is the legendary founder of the Julii gens.

Artemis of Ephesus

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From the Greek point of view, the Ephesian Artemis is a distinctive form of their goddess Artemis. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was venerated in an archaic, pre-Hellenic cult image that was carved of wood (a xoanon) and kept decorated with jewelry. On the coins minted at Ephesus, the goddess wears a mural crown.

Astarte

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Astarte is the Hellenized form of the Middle Eastern goddess Astoreth (Northwest Semitic), a form of Ishtar (East Semitic), worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity. The name is particularly associated with her worship in the ancient Levant among the Canaanites and Phoenicians.

Aurora

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Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn.

Baal

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Baal or Baʿal was a high Semitic deity associated with storms and fertility and is associated with Hadad and El.

Attis

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Attis was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.

Athena Polias

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Epithet of Athena as protector of the city.

Centaur

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A centaur, or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

Cronus

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In Greek mythology, Cronus was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth.

Chiron

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Chiron was held to be the superlative centaur amongst his brethren since he was called the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs".

Bes

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Bes, together with his feminine counterpart Beset, is an ancient Egyptian deity worshipped as a protector of households and, in particular, of mothers, children, and childbirth. Worship of Bes spread as far north as the area of Syria and as far west as the Balearic Islands (Ibiza) in Spain, and later into the Roman and Achaemenid Empires.

Britannia

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Britannia is the Roman personification of the region and Roman province of Britannia. Usage of the personification persists in numismatics into the modern era.

Cupid

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In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection.

Chrysaor

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Chrysaor, was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus, often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa, born when Perseus decapitated the gorgon.

Ceres

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In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.

Concordia

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In ancient Roman religion, Concordia is the goddess who embodies agreement in marriage and society.

Diana

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Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside, hunters, crossroads, and the Moon. She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, and absorbed much of Artemis' mythology early in Roman history.

Demeter

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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over grains and the fertility of the earth.

Cybele

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Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess. Phrygia's only known goddess, she was probably its national deity. Greek colonists in Asia Minor adopted and adapted her Phrygian cult and spread it to mainland Greece and to the more distant western Greek colonies around the 6th century BC.

Flora

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Flora is a Roman goddess of flowers and of the season of spring – a symbol for nature and flowers (especially the may-flower). While she was otherwise a relatively minor figure in Roman mythology, being one among several fertility goddesses, her association with the spring gave her particular importance at the coming of springtime.

Eileithyia

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Eileithyia or Ilithyia was the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery, and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.

Eirene

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Eirene more commonly known in English as Peace, was one of the Horae, the personification of peace. She was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia, sceptre, and a torch or rhyton.

Diomedes

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Diomedesis a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War, and later legendary king of Argos.

Dike

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Dike or Dice is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial custom.

Fecunditas

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In Roman mythology, Fecunditas was the goddess of fertility. She was portrayed as a matron, sometimes holding a cornucopia or a hasta pura, with children in her arms or standing next to her.

Gorgon

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A Gorgon is a creature in Greek mythology. Gorgons occur in the earliest examples of Greek literature. While descriptions of Gorgons vary, the term most commonly refers to three sisters who are described as having hair made of living, venomous snakes and horrifying visages that turned those who beheld them to stone.

Hephaestus

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Hephaestus is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire (compare, however, with Hestia), and volcanoes.

Hecate

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Hecate or Hekate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, snakes or accompanied by dogs and in later periods depicted in triple form. She is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, night, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.

Helios

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Helios, also Helius, in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky.

Hades

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Hades, in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.

Griffin

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The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet.

Hathor

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Hathor was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles, including a sky goddess and patron of music, dance, joy, love, sexuality, and maternal care.

Hebe

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Hebe, in ancient Greek religion and mythology, often given the ephitet Ganymeda (meaning "Gladdening Princess"), is the goddess of youth or the prime of life.

Fortuna

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Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion

Hydra

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The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna, more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine water monster in Greek and Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the Danaïdes. Lerna was reputed to be an entrance to the Underworld, and archaeology has established it as a sacred site older than Mycenaean Argos. In the canonical Hydra myth, the monster is killed by Heracles (Hercules) as the second of his Twelve Labors.

Horus

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Horus or Heru, Hor, Har in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt.

Hippocamp

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The hippocampus or hippocamp, often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician, Etruscan, Pictish, Roman and Greek mythology, though its name has a Greek origin. The hippocampus has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.

Hyacinth

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Hyacinth or Hyacinthus is a gentle and clever divine hero and a lover of Apollo from Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae southwest of Sparta dates from the Mycenaean era.

Hermes

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Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Hermes is considered the herald of the gods.

Hera

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Hera is the goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and mythology, one of the twelve Olympians and the sister and wife of Zeus.

Hygieia

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Hygieia is a goddess from Greek, as well as Roman, mythology. Hygieia is a goddess of health, cleanliness and hygiene.

Iolaus

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Iolaus was a Theban divine hero. He was famed for being Heracles' nephew and for helping with some of his Labors, and also for being one of the Argonauts.

Herophile

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Herophile was a mythical sibyl, or prophet, of Delphi.

Isis

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Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. In the Hellenistic period (323–30 BCE), when Egypt was ruled and settled by Greeks, Isis was worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians, along with a new god, Serapis. Their worship diffused into the wider Mediterranean world.

Jupiter

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Jupiter is the god of the sky and thunder and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology.

Justitia

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Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems.
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