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- 2. Eros (Cupid) often represented as blindfolded because love is often blind
- 3. Anteros the avenger of slighted love; the one who opposes love
- 4. Hebe Goddess of Youth; daughter of Zeus & Hera; wife of Hercules
- 5. Iris Goddess of the Rainbow and a messenger of the gods (like Hermes)
- 6. The Graces: Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer); daughters of Zeus & Eurynome; Aglaia married Hephaestus
- 7. Muses—9 of them; Clio (history), Urania (astronomy), Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (dance), Calliope (epic poetry), Erato (love-poetry), Polyhymnia (songs to the gods), and Euterpe (lyric poetry); daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne
- 9. The kingdom of the dead was ruled by one the great Olympians Hades / Pluto, and his queen, Persephone.
- 10. Tartarus and Erebus are sometimes two divisions of the underworld. Tartarus The deeper of the two, the prison of the sons of earth
- 11. Erebus Where the dead pass as soon as they die
- 12. The path down to it leads to where Acheron, the river of the woe, pours into Cocytus, the river of lamentation.
- 13. An aged boatman named Charon ferries the souls of the dead across the water to the farther bank to Tartarus
- 14. On guard before the gate sits Cerberus, the three headed-dragon tailed dog who permits all spirits to enter, but none to return
- 15. On his arrival each one is brought before three judges: Rhadamanthus Minos Aeacus Who pass sentences and send the wicked to everlasting torment and the good to a place of blessedness called The Elysian Fields
- 16. Phlegethon the river of fire
- 17. Styx the river of unbreakable oath
- 18. Lethe the river of forgetfulness
- 19. The Erinyes The place where they punish evildoers
- 22. the protector of the sowers and the seed, as his wife Ops was a harvest helper
- 25. Quirinus the name if the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome
- 26. Lucina - the goddess of childbirth
- 27. Pomona and Vertumnus Powers protecting orchards and gardens Pomona and Vertumnus - protectors of orchards and gardens