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Jason

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Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos.

Mars

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In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He was the son of Jupiter and Juno, and he was the most prominent of the military gods in the religion of the Roman army.

Juno

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Juno was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state. She was equated to Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology.

Maenad

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In Graeco-Roman mythology, a maenad is a female follower of Dionysus or Bacchus.

Lamia

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Lamia in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit (daemon).

Luna

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In ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon.

Minotaur

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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man. He dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Nemean Lion

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The Nemean lion was a monster in Greek mythology that lived at Nemea. Eventually, it was killed by Heracles (Hercules).

Mercury

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Mercury is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld.

Medusa

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In Greek mythology, Medusa also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair.

Neoptolemus

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Neoptolemus, originally called Pyrrhus at birth, was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros. He became the mythical progenitor of the ruling dynasty of the Molossians of ancient Epirus.

Marsyas

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In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

Minerva

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Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.

Melqart

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Melqart (also Melkarth or Melicarthus) was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. Often titled the "Lord of Tyre" (Ba‘al Ṣūr), he was also known as the Son of Baal or El (the Ruler of the Universe), King of the Underworld, and Protector of the Universe.

Nemea

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Nemea is a nymph associated with the ancient city of Nemea in the Argolid, the daughter of Asopus or Zeus.

Oceanus

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In Greek mythology, Oceanus was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.

Nephthys

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Nephthys or Nebet-Het in ancient Egyptian was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. A member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology, she was a daughter of Nut and Geb. Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites.

Osiris

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Osiris is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.

Neptune

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Neptune is the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion.

Nike

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In ancient Greek civilization, Nike was a goddess who personified victory. Her Roman equivalent was Victoria.

Orpheus

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Orpheus in Greek mythology was a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet.

Nergal

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Nergal was a Mesopotamian god worshiped through all periods of Mesopotamian history, from Early Dynastic to Neo-Babylonian times, with a few attestations indicating that his cult survived into the period of Achaemenid domination. He was primarily associated with war, death, and disease, and has been described as the "god of inflicted death".

Pelops

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Pelops was king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus region. He was venerated at Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games.

Pan

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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs.

Persephone

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In Greek mythology, Persephone, also called Kore or Kora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She is both a vegetation goddess and the queen of the Underworld, following her abduction by Hades.

Philoctetes

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Philoctetes, or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa or Methone. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War.

Proserpina

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Proserpina is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were combined from those of Libera, an early Roman goddess of wine. She is the Roman equivalent to the Greek, Persephone.

Pluto

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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto was the ruler of the Greek underworld. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto represents a more positive concept of the god who presides over the afterlife.

Procris

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In Greek mythology, Procris was an Athenian princess as the third daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens and his wife, Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia. Homer mentions her in the Odyssey as one of the many dead spirits Odysseus saw in the Underworld.

Protesilaus

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Protesilaus was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated at cult sites in Thessaly and Thrace.

Phrixus

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In Greek mythology Phrixus was the son of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele (a goddess of clouds).

Pietas

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Pietas, or "filial piety", was one of the chief virtues among the ancient Romans. Pietas was the divine presence in everyday life that cautioned humans not to intrude on the realm of the gods.

Perpetuitas

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Perpetuitas is the Roman personification of permanence.

Remus

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Remus is the twin brother of Romulus, the founder of Rome.

Saturn

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Saturn was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology. He was described as a god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation. Saturn's mythological reign was depicted as a Golden Age of plenty and peace. After the Roman conquest of Greece, he was conflated with the Greek Titan Cronus.

Scylla

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In Greek mythology, Scylla is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.

Sabazius

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Sabazios is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. Though the Greeks interpreted Phrygian Sabazios as both Zeus and Dionysus, representations of him, even into Roman times, show him always on horseback, wielding his characteristic staff of power.

Rhea Silvia

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Rhea (or Rea) Silvia was the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome.

Rhodus

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In Greek mythology, Rhodos/Rhodus or Rhode, was the goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes and a wife of the sun god Helios.

Salus

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Salus was the Roman goddess of safety and well-being (welfare, health and prosperity) of both the individual and the state.

Rodon

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Rodon or Redon is a god of the sea in Illyrian mythology.

Sphinx

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A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. In Greek tradition, the sphinx is a treacherous and merciless being with the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion, and the wings of a bird. According to Greek myth, she challenges those who encounter her to answer a riddle, and kills and eats them when they fail to do so.

Serapis

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Serapis is a Graeco-Egyptian syncretic deity. The cult of Serapis was introduced during the third century BC on the orders of Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter of the Ptolemaic Kingdom as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm.

Tarpeia

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In Roman mythology, Tarpeia, daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines at the time of their women's abduction for what she thought would be a reward of jewelry. She was instead crushed to death and her body cast from the southern cliff of Rome's Capitoline Hill, thereafter called after her the Tarpeian Rock (Rupes Tarpeia).

Silenus

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In Greek mythology, Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.

Selene

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In Greek mythology, Selene is the goddess of the Moon.

Silvanus

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Silvanus was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands, perhaps from the Etruscan Selvans.

Tanit

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Tanit (Punic: 𐤕𐤍𐤕) was a Punic goddess. She was the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Baal-Hamon. She is worshipped as Dea Caelestis in Romanized Carthage.

Spes

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In ancient Roman religion, Spes was the goddess of hope.

Tyche

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Tyche was the presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. In Classical Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes.

Thetis

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Thetis is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.

Triptolemus

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In Greek mythology, Triptolemus is a figure connected with the goddess Demeter of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Triton

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Triton is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively.

Telesphorus

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In ancient Greek religion, Telesphorus was a minor child-god of healing. He was a possible son of Asclepius and frequently accompanied his sister Hygieia. He was depicted as a dwarf whose head was always covered with a cowl hood or cap.

Tellus

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In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth.

Tiberinus

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Tiberinus (or Tiber) is the Roman personification of the Tiber River, which runs through Rome.

Tranquillitas

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In Roman mythology, Tranquillitas was the personification of tranquility. Tranquillitas seems to be related to Annona (the goddess of the corn harvest from Egypt) and Securitas, implying reference to the peaceful security of the Roman Empire.

Ubertas

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Ubertas, sometimes Fertilitas or Uberitas, is the Roman personification of wealth.

Venus

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Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompassed love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.

Zeus

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Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.

Vulcan

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Vulcan is the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. His Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery. In Etruscan religion, he is identified with Sethlans.

Victory

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Victoria, in ancient Roman religion, was the personified goddess of victory. She is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike, and was associated with Bellona.

Vesta

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Vesta is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. She was rarely depicted in human form, and was often represented by the fire of her temple in the Forum Romanum.

Zeus Velchanos

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Velchanos is a Bronze Age Minoan god of vegetation that was worshipped on Greece. The Myceneans identified Velchanos as their god, Zeus. Zeus Velchanos is represented with a cock on his lap on the coinage of Phaistos.

Virtus

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In Roman mythology, Virtus was the deity of bravery and military strength, the personification of the Roman virtue of virtus.

Zeus Eleutherios

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An epithet of Zeus referring to his role as "liberator."

Sol

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Denomination with the value of sol.
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