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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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Erinnyes

Literature; Fiction

Also known as the Furies, punish crime. They persue wrong doers relentlessly, until death, often driving them to suicide. They are particularly concerned with matricide. There are ...

Rhea

Literature; Fiction

Rhea was the wife of Cronus. Cronus made it a practice to swallow their children. To avoid this, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock, saving her son Zeus.

Hestia

Literature; Fiction

Hestia is Zeus sister. She is a virgin goddess. She does not have a distinct personality. She plays no part in myths.

Mnemosyne

Literature; Fiction

Mnemosyne was the Titan of memory and the mother of Muses.

Pan

Literature; Fiction

He was the son of Hermes and Penelope (later married to Odysseus) in some myths and the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto in others. He was the god of flocks and shepherds

Eris

Literature; Fiction

Eris is unpopular and frequently snubbed as a guest by the other gods and mankind. This was not always a safe thing to do. The most dramatic example being the Trojan War, which ...

Hecatoncheires

Literature; Fiction

Hecatoncheires means "hundred handed". They were gigantic and had fifty heads and one hundred arms each of great strength. There were three of them: Briareus also called Aegaeon, ...